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Today in History

Tuesday, 13 October 2026

1999

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

1992

An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashed near Kiev, Ukraine.

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.

1983

Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.

1977

Four Palestinians hijack ''Lufthansa Flight 181'' to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

1976

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

1972

An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashed outside Moscow killing 176.

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.

1970

Fiji joins the United Nations.

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.

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