october 13 in history: what happened to that day

Dutch physicist Christian Huygens patented a pocket watch in 1675.

In 1884, Greenwich was established as the location of the zero meridian.

In 1923, the capital of Turkey was moved from Istanbul to Ankara.

In 1976, Chelyabinsk became a millionaire city.

On October 13, a major Russian industrialist, secret adviser, chamberlain Baron Nikolai Stroganov (1700); a Soviet poet and journalist, songwriter ("Fire beats in a tight stove", etc.) Alexei Surkov (1899); Soviet and Russian scientist, design engineer, creator of the world's first artificial Earth satellite Gleb Maximov (1926); American screenwriter, producer and director (series "The X-Files" and others) Chris Carter (1956).