Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

On April 13, 2007 ( Friday the 13th ), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Preview Weekend.

On the left of the altar, towards the Eastern Orthodox chapel, there is a statue of Mary, believed to be working wonders ( the 13th Station of the Cross, where Jesus ' body was removed from the cross and given to his family ).

On the state legislative level, Ellensburg is in the 13th district.

On the steamboat trip upriver, he became ill ; on the 13th he left Brierfield to return to New Orleans.

On 14 September 2000, he was introduced there as the 126th " rühmlich ausgezeichneter Teutscher " and 13th composer among them, with a bust by sculptor Milan Knobloch.

On Friday, October 13, 1307 ( a date sometimes spuriously linked with the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition ) Philip ordered de Molay and scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested.

* June 12 – Holocaust: On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank makes the first entry in her new diary.

On November the 13th of 2010, it merged with Europe Écologie to become Europe Ecology – The Greens.

On May 5, 1978, Rose became the 13th player in major league history to collect his 3, 000th career hit, with a single off Montreal Expos pitcher Steve Rogers.

On 8 November 1901, for example, the 13th Hussars captured 14 burghers near Mahamba.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

On the 13th of September 2009 the contractors of the Dartford River Crossing ( Le Crossing ) changed to Connect Plus M25, which again is made up of a consortium of Atkins, Egis, Skanska, and Balfour Beatty.

:: On June 13th, 2012, Ortega was officially sworn in as the city's mayor replacing Dr. Michael Gomez.

On March 9, 1916, on the orders of Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco " Pancho " Villa, ( Colonel ) Francisco Beltrán, ( Colonel ) Candelario Cervantes, ( General ) Nicolás Fernández, ( General ) Pablo López and others led five hundred men in an attack against the town, which was garrisoned by a detachment of the U. S. 13th Cavalry Regiment.

On December 13th, 2011, Eau Claire, WI became The Kubb Capital of North America.

On 8 August 2012, Brazil ranked 13th in the FIFA World Ranking, making it their worst rank ever.

On 13 July 2007, Friday the 13th was screened for the first time on Blairstown's Main Street in the very theater which appears shortly after the opening credits.

On 3 February 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment released Friday the 13th on an unrated uncut home video version for the first time in the United States ( all previous VHS and DVD releases were the rated theatrical version ).

On rue Barre-St-Brice are two of the oldest private houses in Europe, dating from between 1175 and 1200 and built in the Romanesque style, while the rue des Jésuites includes a Gothic house from the 13th century.

On the left hand end of the right hand wall of the nave of the primitive basilica, rebuilt in 1933 on ancient remains, arches to end the middle of the nave of the actual church, built in the 13th century, are visible, along with the outside of the apse of the Chapel of the Relics ; whole and fragmentary collected sarcophagi ( mostly of 4th century date ) were found in excavations.

On the site where the Indoor Markets are now located, archaeologists discovered further leather tanning pits, these dating from the 13th century.

On the 13th day is Dhanteras, the days Diwali starts in the rest of India.

On the 13th Vergniaud boldly exposed the conspiracy in the Convention.

On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, accompanied only by Neal Brown as his deputy, Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for Rock Fort and Dunn's ranch.

On January 18, Ernest Gross conducted a press conference at the U.N. lasting an hour.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

On January 28, 1835, Andrew Jackson removed Pope from office and elevated Territorial Secretary William S. Fulton to the position.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

On January 11 she paced a mile in 2:43.1--:38 ; ;

On January 31, 1837, he became senior brigadier general in command of the Texas Army

On January 19, 1862, the ill-prepared Confederates, after a night march in the rain, attacked the Union force with some initial success.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

On January 14, 1863, the Alcotts received a telegram that Louisa was sick ; Bronson immediately went to bring her home, briefly meeting Abraham Lincoln while there.

On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

On January 2 366 the Alemanni yet again crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers, to invade the Gallic provinces, this time being defeated by Valentinian ( see Battle of Solicinium ).

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

On 31 January 1718, the tsarevich reached Moscow.

On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, taking full revenge on his brother.

On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his cousin, Princess Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, but she died within six months of the marriage.

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.

On 1 January 1966 Selkirk's island was officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On January 18, 1999, the Falcons upset the top-seeded 15 – 1 Vikings at Minnesota in the NFC Championship Game, 30 – 27 in an epic overtime victory.

On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

On Sunday January 7, it was announced that Randy Johnson would return to the Diamondbacks on a two year contract, pending a physical.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

On 1 January 913 an army, led by the eunuch Badr, conquered the fortress of Écija, at some 50 km from the capital.