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Today in History ~ October 13
Events1307 - French king Philip IV convicts Knights Templar of heresy
1629 - Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies
1659 - Gen John Lambert drives out English Rump government
1710 - English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)
1775 - Continental Congress ordered construction of America's first naval fleet.
1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published
1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House) [H]
1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights, Brit beats US attempt to invade Canada
1843 - B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
1845 - Texans ratify a state constitution and approve annexation [H]
1860 - 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
1862 - Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech
1864 - Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties)
1864 - Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby robs train near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
1864 - Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
1870 - Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
1881 - Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations
1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1903 -The first World Series ends. The Boston Pilgrims of the American League beat the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League, in the eighth game of a best-of-nine series.
1903 - Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," premieres in NYC
1914 - Garrett Morgan patents gas mask
1919 - Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
1923 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
1930 - New German Reichstag opens with 107 Nazi Party members in uniform
1931 - Noel Coward's "Cavalcade," premieres in London
1941 - Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people
1943 - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
1944 - Riga, Latvia freed
1944 - US 1st army begins battle of Aachen
1947 - "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1953 - Burglar alarm -- ultrasonic or radio waves patented by Samuel Bagno
1954 - RP Smith's/M Shulman's "Tender Trap," premieres in NYC
1960 - 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
1960 - Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
1962 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill
1963 - "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium
1966 - 173 US airplanes bomb North-Vietnam
1970 - Angela Davis arrested in NYC
1972 - Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
1972 - Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue) (rugby team eats crash victims to survive)
1973 - Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
1977 - Four Palestinians hijacked a Lufthansa airliner in an unsuccessful attempt to force release of 11 imprisoned members of Germany's terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction.
1978 - James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu
1978 - Pres Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
1980 - Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
1982 - IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to (by now, dead) Jim Thorpe
1987 - 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
1987 - Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
1988 - Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest
1988 - Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages.
1990 - 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral
1990 - Lebanese Christian military leader Michel Aoun ended his two-year mutiny, ordered his forces to surrender, and sought refuge in the French Embassy in Beirut after Syrian-backed Lebanese government troops attacked his headquarters.
1991 - The Group of Seven industrialized democracies agreed to formulate a Soviet economic reform program with Moscow.
1992 - The first pig liver transplant patient died in a Los Angeles hospital 30 hours after surgery and just hours before she was to get a human organ.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council voted to reinstate an oil and arms embargo against Haiti after its military leaders refused to step down as promised.
1993 - The Bell Atlantic Corporation and Tele-Communications Inc. announced plans for a merger; the deal was worth $33 billion.
1994 - Two months after the Irish Republican Army announced a cease-fire, Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland did the same.
1999 - The Senate rejected a treaty signed by the United States that banned all underground nuclear testing. Despite that, President Clinton pledged to abide by the treaty's provisions.
1999 - A grand jury in Boulder, Colo., announced it had insufficient evidence to charge anyone in the Dec. 26, 1996, slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.
Birthdays Today
1537 - Jane Grey, Queen of England for 9 days
1563 - Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint (Caracciolini)
1754 - Mary Ludwig Hayes American Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher.
1769 - Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college
1797 - William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet
1821 - Rudolf Virchow, German politician/antropologist (cell pathology)
1867 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator
1902 - Wilbur Shaw (Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Famer: Indianapolis 500 winner {1937, 1939, 1940): 1st to win twice in a row; became president & general manager of Speedway)
1909 - Herblock (Herbert Block) (editorial cartoonist)
1910 - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer
1912 - Hugo David Weisgall, Ivancice Moravia, composer (4 Impressions)
1915 - Cornel Wilde (actor: A Song to Remember, Sharks' Treasure, Norseman, Omar Khayyam, The Greatest Show on Earth, Forever Amber)
1917 - Burr Tillstrom (Emmy Award-winning puppeteer: Berlin Wall hand ballet, That was the Week that Was [1965-66]; Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1920 - Laraine Day (La Raine Johnson) (actress: Return to Fantasy Island, Murder on Flight 502, Mr. Lucky, Those Endearing Young Charms, Tycoon; TV panelist: I've Got a Secret)
1921 - Lou Saban (football)
1921 - Yves Montand (Yvo Livi) (actor: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Lovers like Us, Grand Prix, The Crucible; singer: Mais Qu'est-ce que J'ai)
1921 - Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix)
1924 - Nipsey Russell (actor, comedian: Car 54, Where are You?, ABC's Nightlife, Barefoot in the Park, The Dean Martin Show)
1925 - Frank Gilroy (playwright: The Gig, Jinxed, From Noon till Three, Desperate Characters, Fastest Gun Alive)
1925 - Lenny Bruce [Leonard Schneider](comedian; films: Dance Hall Racket, Dynamite Chicken)
1925 - Margaret Thatcher (Roberts) ('The Iron Lady': British leader: Prime Minister of Great Britain [1979-90])
1926 - Eddie Yost (baseball)
1931 - Eddie Matthews (Baseball Hall of Famer: third baseman & home run hitter: Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves: World Series [1957, 1958]; Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers; Braves coach & mgr.; on cover of 1st Sports Illustrated)
1934 - Nana Mouskouri, Crete Greece, singer (Try to Remember)
1936 - Cliff Gorman, Jamacia NY, actor (Boys in the Band, Lenny, Angel)
1941 - Paul Simon (singer, composer: group: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Graceland, The Obvious Child; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer)
1944 - Robert Lamm (singer, musician: keyboards: group: The Big Thing:Chicago Transit Authority: Chicago: Beginnings, Feelin' Stronger Every Day,Saturday in the Park, (I've Been) Searchin' So Long, If You Leave Me Now, Just You 'n' Me, Hard to Say I'm Sorry; songwriter: Critic's Choice; solo: LP: Skinny Boy)
1946 - Demond Wilson (actor: Sanford and Son, The Odd Couple, Baby I'm Back; preacher)
1947 - Sammy Hagar (singer, musician: guitar: Keep on Rockin', Bad Motor Scooter, Your Love is Driving Me Crazy, Two Sides of Love, I Can't Drive 55; group: Van Halen)
1948 - Lacy J. Dalton (Jill Byrem) (songwriter, singer: Dream Baby, 16th Avenue, Takin' It Easy, Hard Times, Crazy Blue Eyes; in film: Take this Job and Shove It)
1948 - Randy Moffitt (baseball)
1952 - Greg Latta (football)
1953 - Pat Alan Day ('Little Jesus': National Horse Racing Hall of Famer: jockey: Eclipse Award [1984, 1986, 1987, 1991]; Triple Crown winner [1985]; Classic winner [1984, 1990]; won a record $11,631,000 in Breeders' Cup races [1984-94])
1959 - Marie (Olive) Osmond (singer: Paper Roses, Who's Sorry Now, This is the Way that I Feel; TV host: Donny and Marie, Ripley's Believe It or Not)
1962 - Jerry Rice (football: San Francisco '49er wide receiver: Super Bowl XXIII, XXIV, XXIX); NFL individual record: touchdown receptions: career [131], season [22]; Super Bowl records: career: yards gained [215], points scored: [42], touchdowns scored [7], TDs in one game [3])
1962 - Kelly Preston (actress: For Love and Honor, Cheyenne Warrior, Double Cross, Love is a Gun, Only You, The Perfect Bride, Amazon Women on the Moon; actor, John Travolta's wife)
1969 - Nancy Kerrigan (Olympic ice skating medalist: [silver, 1994])
Famous deaths
0054 - The Roman Emperor Claudius was poisoned. His fourth wife, Aggrippina, was the murderess. She wanted to see her son Nero, adopted by Claudius, on the throne. Nero indeed ascended the throne upon his stepfather's death - only to suffer a similar fate in 68 AD.
1601 - Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague
1652 - Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies
1680 - Daniel Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 54
1701 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer, dies at 47
1795 - William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies
1812 - Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle
1815 - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15), executed
1822 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, dies at 64
1855 - Gottfried Rieger, composer, dies at 91
1869 - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Fren writer (Tableau Historique), dies
1959 - K Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer (Amsterdam Concertgebouw), dies at 67
1974 - Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town), dies at 73
1990 - Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese negotiator in Paris (1975), dies at 78
2002 - Historian Stephen Ambrose, author of numerous books on World War II, American presidents and America's early westward expansion, died of lung cancer. He was 66.
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