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On this day October 13-19 (week 42)
October 13, 2024 - October 19, 2024 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries on each day for the week. This week features the Prime Meridian of Greenwich, Prince Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, Queen Victoria of Great Britain, the song Happy Birthday to You, the destruction of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, the woolly mammoth and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
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October 13, 1884: Greenwich became the Prime Meridian of longitude, from which global standard times are calculated and which divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres
October 14, 2004: Prince Norodom Sihamoni, a former ballet dancer, succeeded his father, Norodom Sihanouk, as King of Cambodia
October l5, 1839: Queen Victoria of Great Britain proposed marriage to her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Their happy marriage ended with Albert’s death in 1861
October 16, 1893: A catchy song, Happy Birthday to You, was published by two U.S. schoolteachers. Intended as a classroom greeting, the original lyrics began Good Morning to All
October 17, 2023: An explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza killed hundreds of people. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, and Israel blamed a misfiring Palestinian rocket
October 18, 1999: The first complete specimen of the extinct woolly mammoth, which died around 23,000 years ago, was dug out of the icy wastes of northern Siberia
October 19, 1997: The dramatic new Guggenheim Museum, designed by U.S. architect Frank Gehry, was opened by King Juan Carlos in the Spanish city of Bilbao