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Knights Templar / White House / Greenwich / Bob Dylan

On This Day (October 13): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
October 13, 2025

🌟 Editor's Note

Good morning — it’s Monday, October 13. Today, we're exploring the fall of the Knights Templar, the building of the White House, the fall of Mecca, the birth of the US Army, and much more — in an easy-to-follow manner.

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🚀 Time Machine

-54

Agrippina the Younger poisons her husband, Emperor Claudius, to ensure the succession of her son, Nero.

-1307

French King Philip IV arrested Grand Master Jacques de Molay and the Knights Templar for idolatry and corruption.

-1775

The Continental Congress authorizes the creation of the first American naval force, the precursor to the U.S. Navy.

-1792

The foundation was laid for the presidential residence in the new capital city of Washington, D.C.

-1884

The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., established Greenwich as the universal time longitude meridian.

-1924

Mecca falls without resistance to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud.

-1943

Italy declares war on its former Axis partner, Germany.

-1944

The US 1st Army begins the Battle of Aachen, the first German city captured during World War II.

-1967

The Anaheim Amigos lost to the Oakland Oaks, 134-129, in the first game of the American Basketball Association.

-2010

The Copiapó mining accident in Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners make it to the surface after 69 days underground.

-2016

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

-2019

Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history with her 25th medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

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📸 Snapshot

German commercial airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flying over Washington, D.C., 1928

🗨️ Final Words

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“I am about to—or I am going to—die; either expression is correct.”

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