October 13

Thursday 13, 1983:

Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.

Thursday 13, 1977:

Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

Friday 13, 1972:

Andes flight disaster: Fairchild passenger plane transporting a rugby team crashes in Andes. They are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive, as chronicled in the 1993 film '.

Sunday 13, 1946:

France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.

Wednesday 13, 1943:

World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.