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Today in History ~ November 13
Events1002 - English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1553 - English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason
1642 - Battle at Turnham Green, London: King Charles I vs English parliament
1715 - Battle at Sheriffmuir: English army beats Scottish earl of Mar
1715 - Pro-James Edward Stuart rebellion surrenders
1775 - American Revolutionary forces under Gen Richard Montgomery capture Montreal. This was a two-pronged attack on Canada, with the goal of capturing Quebec entrusted to Benedict Arnold, who was leading a force through a hurricane ravaged Maine wilderness.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1830 - Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"
1843 - Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1854 - "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1865 - PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1895 - 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1909 - The Ballinger-Pinchot scandal erupts when Colliers magazine accuses Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of shady dealings in Alaskan coal lands. [H]
1913 - 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
1921 - "Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1922 - Black Renaissance begins in Harlem, NY
1922 - George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly," premieres in NYC
1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
1930 - WA Drake's "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1933 - The first recorded "sit-down" strike in the United States was staged by workers at the Hormel Packing Company in Austin, Minn.
1935 - Anti-British riots in Egypt
1937 - NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio for Arturo Toscanini
1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia". One critic called the film "As terrific as anything that has ever happened on the screen."
1940 - Willys-Overland Completes Original Jeep Prototype [H]
1941 - British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sunk in Mediterranean
1942 - Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
1942 - Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 - 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1952 - False fingernails 1st sold
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case from Montgomery, Ala., that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional.
1960 - Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1960 - Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
1964 - Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
1965 - "Yarmouth Castle" burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1965 - Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "Fuck" on BBC
1969 - VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news departments of bias & distortion
1970 - Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong, Bangladesh
1970 - Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
1970 - VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1971 - The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars.
1974 - Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., died in a car crash.
1974 - Yasser Arafat told the U.N. General Assembly that the goal of the Palestine Liberation Organization was to establish an independent state of Palestine.
1977 - The comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.
1979 - Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president
1982 - The Vietnam War memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1985 - A volcano erupted in Colombia, killing 25,000 people. It was the third-deadliest volcano disaster in history.
1986 - US president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
1987 - 1st condom commercial on BBC TV
1991 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a Senate-passed bill guaranteeing many workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for family emergencies.
1992 - A group of Peruvian military officers tried unsuccessfully to assassinate President Fujimori and overthrow the government.
1993 - Pakistan's Foreign Minister Farooq Leghari was chosen president.
1995 - Six people, including five Americans, were killed when two bomb blasts rocked a military training and communications center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
1996 - A grand jury in St. Petersburg, Fla., declined to indict police officer Jim Knight, who had shot black motorist TyRon Lewis to death the previous month; the decision prompted angry mobs to return to the streets. An all-white jury in Pittsburgh acquitted a suburban police officer, John Vojtas, in the death of black motorist Jonny Gammage in a verdict that angered black activists.
1996 - Sgt. Loren B. Taylor, a drill sergeant who'd had sex with three women recruits at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., was given five months in prison and a bad-conduct discharge in the first sentencing of the burgeoning Army sex scandal.
1997 - "Lion King," opens at New Amersterdam Theater NYC
1997 - UN pulls out arms inspection teams from Iraq, Iraq expelled the American members of the UN team that'd been sent to verify Iraq's compliance with UN directives.
1997 - The stage adaptation of the 1994 Disney movie "The Lion King" opened with much fanfare at the restored New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.
2000 - Lawyers for George W. failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced she would end the recounting at 5 p.m. the next day - prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
2001 - President George W. Bush and Russian leader Putin agreed to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons by about two-thirds.
Birthdays Today
1312 - Edward III, king of England (1327-77, raped countess of Salisbury)
1792 - Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son)/friend of Byron and Shelley
1809 - John AB Dahlgren, US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren cannon)
1814 - Joseph Hooker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1833 - Edwin Thomas Booth, US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet) ( founded the Players Club)
1838 - Joseph F Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson (author: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses)
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
1854 - George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)
1856 - Louis Brandeis (jurist: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-1939])
1913 - Alexander Scourby (actor: The Big Heat, Affair in Trinidad)
1916 - Jack Elam (actor: Support Your Local Sheriff, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cannonball Run series, Pocketful of Miracles, Rawhide, Temple Houston, The Texas Wheelers, The Dakotas)
1922 - Madeleine Sherwood (actress: The Flying Nun, Hurry Sundown, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broken Vows, Sweet Bird of Youth)
1922 - Oskar Werner (Josef Schliessmayer) (actor: Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Voyage of the Damned, Fahrenheit 451)
1924 - Linda Christian (actress: The Devil's Hand, Athena)
1928 - Steve Bilko (baseball)
1932 - Richard Mulligan (Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1979-80], Empty Nest [1988-89]; S.O.B., The Hero, The Group, Little Big Man, Diana)
1934 - Garry Marshall (producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days; director: A League of Their Own, Pretty Woman, Beaches; comedy writer: Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show; actor: A League of Their Own, Lost in America; brother of actress, Penny Marshall)
1938 - Jean Seberg (actress: Paint Your Wagon, The Mouse that Roared, Airport, Joan of Arc, Bonjour Tristesse)
1939 - Wes Parker (baseball)
1941 - Dack (Norman) Rambo (actor: Dallas, All My Children, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Sword of Justice, The New Loretta Young Show)
1941 - Mel Stottlemyre (baseball)
1942 - Walter Johnson (football)
1947 - Joe Mantegna (actor; Airheads, Queen's Logic, The Godfather Part III, Elvis: The Movie, The Money Pit, Three Amigos. Comedy Zone)
1949 - Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson) (Academy Award-winning actress: Ghost [1990]; The Color Purple, Sister Act series, Made in America, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Comic Relief, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Bagdad Cafe; Grammy Award-winning comedienne: Whoopi Goldberg [1985])
1953 - Charlie Tickner (figure skater: Ice Capades, bronze medalist: Winter Olympics [1980]; U.S. Champion [1977, 1978, 1979, 1980])
1957 - Chris Noth (actor: Law & Order, Burnzy's Last Call, Jakarta, Baby Boom)
1959 - Tracy Scoggins (actress: Lois and Clark - The New Adventures of Superman, Hawaiian Heat, Dynasty, The Colbys, Alien Intruder, Dead On, The Gumshoe Kid)
1963 - Vinny Testaverde (football: Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: quarterback; Heisman Trophy winner: University of Miami [1986])
Famous deaths
0867 - Nicholas I, (the Great), pope (858-67), dies at 67
1460 - Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1687 - Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 37
1770 - George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58
1779 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61
1829 - Sam Patch, loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
1868 - Gioachino (Antonio) Rossini, prolific composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1973 - Bruno Maderna, Italian composer/conductor (Satyricon), dies at 53
1974 - Karen Silkwood, killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1974 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Boccacio 70), dies
1986 - Rudolf Schock, German opera/operetta singer, dies at 71
1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian/US conductor/composer, dies at 82
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