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Daily Calendar for Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Born

  • Esaias Tegner (writer) –
  • Lady Caroline Ponsonby Lamb (author) –
  • Edwin Booth (actor) –
  • Robert Louis Stevenson (author) –
  • Louis Brandeis (U.S. Supreme Court justice) –
  • Alexander Scourby (actor) –
  • Richard Mulligan (actor) –
  • Garry Marshall (producer, director, & actor) –
  • Dack Rambo (actor) –
  • Chris Noth (actor) –
  • Whoopi Goldberg (actress) –
  • Jimmy Kimmel (television host) –
  • Monique Coleman (actress) –

Died

  • Gioacchino Rossini (composer) –
  • Irv Rubin (Jewish Defense League leader) –
  • Robert Pershing "Bobby" Doerr (baseball player) –
  • Katherine MacGregor (actress) –

Events

  • David Kirke granted co-proprietorship of Newfoundland–
  • U.S. General Montgomery captured Montreal–
  • Thousands of meteors fell per hour in the eastern United States–
  • The Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey opened–
  • Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres–
  • Walt Disney’s Fantasia premiered at the Broadway Theater in New York; first film to attempt to use stereophonic sound–
  • Sammy Davis Jr. married May Britt–
  • Bob Pettit was the first to reach 20,000 career points in the NBA–
  • Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mars)–
  • Li’l Abner, Al Capp’s 43-year-old comic strip, appeared in newspapers for the last time–
  • The Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated, Washington, D.C.–
  • Volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts in Colombia, killing over 23,000 people.–
  • Groundbreaking ceremony held for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.–

Weather

  • The first great storm of what became the Dust Bowl spread a pall from the Great Plains to New York–

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