What happend on 13th October

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2005

Peel Day First annual BBC proclaimed "Peel Day" celebrating Life and Work of BBC DJ John Peel.

2003

The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open-access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.

1999

The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

1983

Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.

1977

Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

1976

The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C..

1976

A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground)

1972

Andes flight disaster: Fairchild passenger plane transporting a rugby team crashes in Andes. They are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive, as chronicled in the 1993 film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.

1972

An Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 crashed outside Moscow killing 176

1962

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway.