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Positive things that happened on October 13. Each milestone links to the source it was checked against.
Scientific firsts, civil-rights wins, conservation, medicine, kindness, and other good news. Checked against the linked source.
A milestone is added only when the year, a short account, and a link to a reputable source all check out. Archive stories for this date are below.
Two questions a teacher can use as a warm-up. This page is for an adult to read with a class.
37 stories published on October 13 in any year.
CommunityFirst National Bank of Omaha gave the money to Honor Homes at Patty's Place. The Connection said it will pay for electrical work and restart four homes that had been waiting on funds.
Verified · KNOP
CommunityDozens of first through eighth graders spent a morning at Millsaps College's Hangar Dome learning teamwork from former Mississippi State standout Eric Dampier Sr. and his son.
Verified · WLBT
CommunityHomeless No More broke ground on Grand Village, a $12.8 million mixed-income rental project on the old Grand Motel site, with homes for families with children and a community center. Nobody has moved in yet.
Verified · WIS
CommunityBrad Robbins, whose father started the family tree farm in 1975, was named Southern Regional Tree Farmer of the Year for sustainable management, with three generations still on the land.
Verified · KATV
CommunityAlexander Reis set a goal of 500 pairs for his Eagle Scout project and finished with 3,673. The Lions Club will send them to people who need them, and he also held a community health fair.
Verified · The Observer (Kearny)
Health & TechIn an 80-week trial of 1,152 adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes, the highest dose of the experimental drug retatrutide cut weight more than placebo and lowered HbA1c. It is not FDA-approved.
Verified · Medical Xpress
HeroesFreedom Alliance and U.S. Bank gave Marine veteran Dustin Gabehart, who coaches football at La Junta High, a new car that was already paid off. His children had not been told.
Verified · KRDO
HeroesJon Norstog spent a night by a fire in a space blanket after he missed his ride on Mex Mountain. An Idaho County search-and-rescue dog team found him the next morning, not injured.
Verified · Dailyfly News (Lewiston)
AnimalsOn his 15th birthday, Evergreen Park sophomore Daniel Kirincic found a lost cockatiel on the track bleachers. It matched a bird he had painted the year before, and the owner let him keep it.
Verified · Patch (Evergreen Park)
AnimalsJean Quade turned a weedy back lot on Avenel Avenue into pollinator habitat large enough to be certified as a Monarch Waystation. Neighbors who had not met before now garden there together.
Verified · WDBJ7
CommunityDream On 3 and the University of Nebraska Collegiate Dream team gave Sam, who has Down syndrome and other health conditions, a three-day visit with on-field passes during Big Noon Kickoff weekend.
Verified · KMTV 3 News Now
CommunityGroundworks volunteers and the Roc Solid Foundation built a backyard playset for 8-year-old Chase, who is being treated for leukemia, and hid Spider-Man gifts in it for his family to find between appointments.
Verified · Amarillo Tribune
CommunityMount Calvary Lutheran Church has served more than 65,000 free community meals since 2012, about 110 every Wednesday, with a rotating crew of 20 to 30 volunteers cooking and serving.
Verified · WCVB
CommunityAuburn High seniors Pearl Simmons and A.K. Jackson started Touchdowns for Diabetes. Neighbors can pledge money for each touchdown or interception, and the gifts stay with a local diabetes center.
Verified · The Observer (Opelika)
HeroesVeterans flew from Des Moines to Washington, visited memorials, and came home to a surprise welcome. Gov. Kim Reynolds met two uncles and a cousin, including one celebrating his 77th birthday.
Verified · KCCI
HeroesDream Flights gave three residents of Beò of Chattanooga free rides in a restored biplane. Air Force veteran Joe DePrimo, 79, flew after a stroke that left him paralyzed on one side.
Verified · NewsChannel 9 (WTVC)
Health & TechIn a small NIH-funded hospital study, 13 patients used a phone app to question their EEG monitor. False seizure alarms fell by about 80 percent. Larger outpatient trials are planned.
Verified · National Institutes of Health (NIH)
CommunityOrange County's 58th Pumpkin Festival was free to enter, and for the fifth year children could get bracelets for the rides. Organizer Dustin Farris said a local carnival is the big trip many kids get.
Verified · Indiana Public Media
CommunityKingsford Middle School set out to raise $500 for the Lake Antoine playground and finished with more than $8,000. With other gifts, the campaign passed its $40,000 goal.
Verified · WLUC TV6
AnimalsThe family released at Greenford in 2023 now has two young. Londoners ages 4 to 18 can suggest names until December 7.
Verified · BBC News
CommunityAssociates from the Arden Lowe's put up money and labor to repaint the playground fence and lay patio pavers under a shelter at the Salvation Army's West Asheville community center.
Verified · WLOS
ScienceFive years after the Black Summer fires, camera traps found a similar set of native mammal species in burnt and unburnt bush. Feral cats were photographed more often than before.
Verified · NSW Local Land Services
CommunityNiiyama Shrine's autumn festival, paused since the 2011 tsunami, sent a mikoshi around Okirai Bay. Neighbors answered with dances they had practiced for months.
Verified · NHK World
CommunityThe Ottertail Lions Club spent about a year collecting 1,000 pounds of plastic film for Trex's recycling program and gave the resulting bench to the Fergus Falls Veterans Home, its third bench through that partnership.
Verified · Perham Focus
HeroesProspect Park Borough named good Samaritans outstanding citizens after they lifted a Volkswagen Beetle off a woman pinned in a crash with an e-bike. She was taken to a hospital with a chest injury.
Verified · CBS Philadelphia
CommunityA dietitian from the Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa led the October 12 session on warning signs, prevention, and meals.
Verified · City of Johannesburg
CommunityEast of Taipei, growers are restacking old tea walls, adding drip lines, and picking by hand. A replanted bush will not show its best tea for years.
Verified · Mongabay
AnimalsHilkka gave birth on October 10 to two females and four males. Yle is not saying which town the cameras are in.
Verified · Yle News
AnimalsBirds of Poole Harbour and the National Trust fitted rings to 15 chicks and one adult at three farmland sites, a first ringing visit of its kind for Purbeck.
Verified · BBC
HeroesAfter a fire on the research vessel Rem Andes about 100 nautical miles south of Grand Isle, a Coast Guard plane caught the mayday and nearby supply boats carried every crew member from the life rafts to Port Fourchon.
Verified · KATC / Acadiana News First
ScienceA two-week workshop in Buenos Aires sorted samples from the Mar del Plata Canyon. The species are logged as new, not yet formally described, and the dives also found plastic.
Verified · Mongabay
AnimalsBali marine police found 22 protected green turtles alive on an unmanned boat. After checks at a center on Serangan, 20 went back into the sea on October 13.
Verified · The Associated Press
CommunityAlly Financial volunteers worked with students at Neinas Dual Language Learning Academy to redo the community garden, pack hundreds of snack packs, and make over the teachers' lounge.
Verified · CBS Detroit
CommunityThe 20th annual Yellowstone River Cleanup logged 3,277 volunteer hours. Crews pulled 191 tires, three engine blocks, and 16,170 pounds of trash, and recycled 75,328 pounds of metal.
Verified · Billings Gazette
CommunityAddy's Playground of Possibility opened Oct. 13 at Connections Education Center, with a communication board and signs for practicing real-world safety.
Verified · WPTV
CommunityThrough October, Friends of Woodston Library are inviting people of all ages to make seed packets with a hopeful message and give them away.
Verified · BBC News
CommunityFree Guitars for Kids is set to give 14 students at enCircle's Minnick School a guitar, a gig bag, a tuner, and a strap, plus online lessons. The giveaway had not happened yet when the story was published.
Verified · WDBJ7