{"id":6341,"date":"2021-10-13T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=188506"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:42:20","slug":"13-october-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/13-october-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"13 October: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Dominic Sandbrook\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 13 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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13 October 1269<\/h3>\n

Following Henry III\u2019s rebuilding of Westminster Abbey<\/a> the body of Edward the Confessor<\/a> was moved to an ornate new shrine at the heart of the abbey church.<\/p>\n

13 October 1307<\/h3>\n

The Templars in France are arrested for heresy.<\/p>\n

13 October 1321<\/h3>\n

Isabella, the wife of King Edward II,<\/a> was refused entry to Leeds Castle by the wife of its custodian. Six of Isabella\u2019s men died in the ensuing scuffle. The king used the incident as an excuse to attack his baronial opponents.<\/p>\n

13 October 1552<\/h3>\n

Ivan the Terrible captures Kazan, marking the end of the local khanate and its incorporation into the growing empire of Muscovy<\/p>\n

13 October 1760<\/h3>\n

British sailor John Jervis was promoted post captain and placed in command of HMS Gosport.<\/em> Jervis, who had joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman in 1749, went on to command the British fleet at the victory over the Spanish at Cape St Vincent in 1797.<\/p>\n

13 October 1812<\/h3>\n

An outnumbered force of British regulars, Canadian militia and Native Americans under Major-General Isaac Brock defeated a US attempt to invade Upper Canada at the battle of Queenston Heights. Brock was killed in the fighting.<\/p>\n

13 October 1903<\/h3>\n

At the end of an epic eight-game baseball battle, the Boston Americans (later Red Sox) mount an extraordinary comeback to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates. Though technically only an informal clash, it is remembered as the first ever World Series.<\/p>\n

13 October 1908: Suffragettes try to storm House of Commons<\/h3>\n

\u2018Rush\u2019 arranged by Pankhurst and WSPU results in 36 arrests<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWomen\u2019s Social and Political\u00a0 Union,\u201d began the flyer. \u201cVOTES FOR WOMEN. Men and women \u2013\u00a0help the suffragettes\u00a0to rush the House of Commons\u00a0on Tuesday evening,\u00a013 October 1908,\u00a0at\u00a07:30.\u201d<\/p>\n

After years of escalating suffragette<\/a> protests, the idea of a \u2018rush\u2019 on the Commons had been devised by WSPU leaders Emmeline Pankhurst, her daughter Christabel and their friend Flora Drummond. There was nothing secret about the plan: not only had Christabel shown the flyer to a policeman, but on Sunday 11 October, they addressed a rally in Trafalgar Square, urging their listeners to join them in storming the Commons chamber.<\/p>\n

The next day, the three leaders were served with a court summons, demanding that they report to Bow Street police station. But they did\u00a0not respond to the summons; when they returned to the WSPU offices at 6pm on the Tuesday, police arrested them.<\/p>\n

The \u2018rush\u2019 itself was just as dramatic as its architects had hoped. \u201cRiotous Scenes at Westminster,\u201d gasped the next day\u2019s\u00a0Times<\/em>. As the press reported, some 60,000 people had assembled in Parliament Square, with \u201cdetermined bands of women\u201d leading the charge against the police lines guarding the Palace of\u00a0Westminster. Not all the crowd were militant\u00a0suffragettes. One observer wrote that there were plenty of male hecklers too, as well as \u201ccuriosity-mongers who were fascinated by the fight although without interest for its cause\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the chaos, some 24 women and 12 men were arrested, while another 10 were taken to\u00a0hospital. But the crowd never managed to break through into the Commons as the Pankhursts had hoped. Only one woman made it into the chamber: the Labour MP Keir Hardie\u2019s secretary, Margaret Travers Symons. She shouted: \u201cLeave off discussing the children\u2019s question and give votes to women\u00a0first!\u201d before the attendants ushered her away.<\/p>\n

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