On This Day: October 13

Eight years after retiring from the Detroit Red Wings, 51-year-old Gordie Howe scored for the Hartford Whalers in a 3–3 tie with Pittsburgh. It was his 787th NHL goal. On the same night, a rookie named Mark Messier scored the first of his 694 NHL goals, in the Edmonton Oilers' first NHL home game.

The Calgary Flames beat the Minnesota North Stars 4–3 in front of 8,783 fans in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It was the first of the NHL's neutral-site games, an experiment in which each team played two games a season in cities without an NHL franchise during the 1992–93 and 1993–94 seasons.

Amid worldwide fanfare, rescuers brought up the last of 33 miners who had been trapped deep underground in the San José mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. Hauled to the surface one by one in a specially designed capsule, the men had spent 69 days below ground.

The Boston Americans, later known as the Red Sox, beat the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the first modern World Series. The best-of-nine series pitted the champions of the American and National leagues against each other for the first time, launching one of the great traditions in sport.

Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. It was the first time the prize went to a songwriter. The famously elusive Dylan took weeks to acknowledge the honour and did not attend the ceremony in Stockholm.

The film classic All About Eve, starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, premiered in Paris and New York City. Known for its acid wit, including Davis's line “Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night,” it won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Weeks after surrendering to the Allies, Italy declared war on its former partner, Nazi Germany. The government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio had fled south after German forces occupied much of the country, and Italy fought the rest of the war split between the Allied south and a German-controlled north.

B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City by a group of German Jewish immigrants. It grew into the oldest and largest Jewish service organization in the world, with chapters on several continents.