HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Friday, October 13, the 286th day of 2017. There are 79 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey. 1943 – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with

the Allies and declares war on Germany. 1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by

the Red Army. 1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic. 1958 – Paddington Bear, a classic character from English

children’s literature, makes his debut. 1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died. 1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California. 1972 – An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow

killing 174. 1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued. 1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground). 1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C. 1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction. 1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.)

launched the first US cellular network in Chicago. 1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace. 1992 – An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered CCCP-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8. 2010 – The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue. 2013 – A stampede breaks out on a bridge near the Ratangarh Mata Temple in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 people and injuring more than 110.