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Daily Calendar for Sunday, September 13, 2020

Born

  • Oliver Evans (inventor) –
  • Clara Schumann (pianist & composer) –
  • Milton Hershey (founder of Hershey Chocolate Company) –
  • Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist) –
  • Sherwood Anderson (writer) –
  • Leland Hayward (producer) –
  • Claudette Colbert (actress) –
  • Horace Babcock (astronomer) –
  • Roald Dahl (author) –
  • Else Holmelund Minarik (children’s author; Little Bear” series”) –
  • Mel Torme (singer) –
  • Jacqueline Bisset (actress) –
  • Peter Cetera (musician) –
  • Nell Carter (actress & singer) –
  • Anne Geddes (photographer) –
  • Michael Johnson (Olympic athlete) –
  • Tyler Perry (actor and screenwriter) –
  • Stella McCartney (fashion designer) –
  • Fiona Apple (singer) –
  • Ben Savage (actor) –

Died

  • John Barry (commodore, father of the American navy) –
  • Richard Merrell (television writer & actor) –
  • George Wallace (politician) –
  • Dorothy McGuire (actress) –
  • Dilhan Eryurt (Turkish astrophysicist) –
  • Frank Vincent (actor) –
  • Eddie Money (singer) –

Events

  • Halford Mackinder’s team became the first Europeans to summit Mount Kenya–
  • Henry Bliss walked off a trolley and was hit by a speeding driver. The following day when he died from his injuries, he became the first pedestrian to be killed by an automobile–
  • The Chocolate Soldier opened in N.Y.C.–
  • Chiang Kai-shek became president of China–
  • Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress–
  • IBM introduced the first computer with a disk storage system–
  • A protester dressed as Batman scaled the front wall of Buckingham Palace–

Weather

  • Frost hit Albany, New York, ending the shortest growing season ever–

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