November 13, ****
867 St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
1805 Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter."
1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"
1839 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1900 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1909 Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1920 Hudson River frozen at Albany (1820?)
1921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1955 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1960 Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
1964 Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
1965 "Yarmouth Castle" burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
1969 VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depths of bias & distortion
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1971 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1973 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously
1977 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1977 The comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.
1978 NASA launches HEAO
1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1984 A libel suit against Time, Inc. by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon went to trial in New York.
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
1989 Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & Ou Est Le Soleil"
1991 - Roger Clemens won his third Cy Young Award for the American League.
1994 In San Francisco, CA, a heavily armed gunman traded fire with police, hitting two police officers, a paramedic and another person before being killed.
1994 Sweden voted to join the European Union.
1995 Greg Maddox (Atlanta Braves) became the first major league pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.
1995 Seven people, including five Americans are killed in a car bomb attack at a U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
1997 Iraq expelled six U.N. arms inspectors that were U.S. citizens.
1998 "The Wizard of Oz" was released on the big screen by Warner Bros. 59 years after its original release.
1998 Monica Lewinsky signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 U.S. President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, without an apology or admission of guilt, to throw out her sexual harassment lawsuit.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order that would allow for military tribunals to try any foreigners captured with connections to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. It was the first time since World War II that a president had taken such action.
