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What happened on November 13th


 Birthdates Which Occur on November 13: 
 354 St Augustine of Hippo Numidia Algeria, convert/Christian philosopher
1312 Edward III king of England (1327-77, raped countess of Salisbury)
1504 Philip the Generous count of Hessen
1559 Albrecht/Albertus archduke of Austria
1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow composer
1679 Thomas-Philippe d'alsace et de Boussu South Netherland cardinal
1699 Jan Zach composer
1718 Anton Laube composer
1759 Timothy Olmstead composer
1789 Martin de Ron composer
1792 Edward John Trelawney England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son)
1804 Theophilus Hunter Holmes Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1809 John AB Dahlgren US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon)
1811 Yuri Arnold composer
1813 John Wolcott Phelps Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
 and Peter II Petrovic Njegos poet/ruler of Montenegro (1830-51)
1814 Joseph Hooker Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1819 Henry Brinley Richards British? pianist/composer
1831 James Maxwell Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity)
1833 Edwin Thomas Booth US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
1834 Ignacio M Altamirano Mexican author (El Zarco)
1838 Joseph F Smith 6th pres of Mormon church
1848 Albert HK monarch of Monaco (1889-1922)
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
1854 George Whitfield Chadwick Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)
1855 Dani‰l F Scheurleer musicologist/banker
1856 Louis D Brandeis Mass, 68th Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
 and Sigwart Aspestrand composer
1868 Pierre Maurice composer
1870 Henry Kolker Quincy IL, actor (Real Glory, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry)
1875 Rogelio del Villar composer
1878 John C Kielstra economist/governor of Suriname (1933-44)
1879 Maurice Delage composer
1882 John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall)
1885 Montague Fawcett Phillips composer
1893 Edward A Doisy Sr US bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943)
1896 Nobusuke Kishi premier of Japan (1957-60)
1898 Earl Sande jockey (Hall of Famer)
19-- Daniel Pilon Montreal Canada, actor (Nick-Hamptons)
 and J A Preston Washington DC, actor (Mayor Cleveland-Hill St Blues)
 and Tom Atkins Pitts Pa, actor (Lt Diehl-Rockford Files)
1902 Gustav von Koenigswald paleontologist (found Pithecanthropus erectus)
1904 Gertrude Olmsted Chicago IL, actress (The Monster)
1906 Conrad Thibault Northbridge Mass, singer (Jacques Fray Music Room)
 and Hermione Baddeley England, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life)
1907 Josef B Kjellgren Swedish writer (Guldkedjan)
1909 Gunnar Bj”rnstrand Stockholm Sweden, actor (Shame, Dreams)
 and Paul de Vree Flemish author (Between Doubt & Tears)
1913 Alexander Scourby Brooklyn, narrator
1915 Howard Cooke Jamaica, (1991 Mico Gold Medal Award)
1916 Jack Elam Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo)
1917 Robert Sterling Newcastle PA, actor (George Kirby-Adv of Topper)
1918 Janine Andrade French violinist
1921 Joonas Kokkonen composer
 and Yoshiro Irino composer
1922 Jack Narz Louisville Ky, TV gameshow host (Dotto, Video Village)
 and Madeleine Sherwood Montreal, actress (Mother Superior-Flying Nun)
 and Oskar Werner film actor/director (Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel)
1923 Linda Christian Tampico, Mexico, actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone)
1925 Inez van Dullemen Dutch author
1926 Max Vernon Mathews composer
1929 Steef C We˜ers Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1930 Fred Harris (Sen-D-Okla)
 and Nico Scheepmaker Dutch columnist/poet
1931 Anthony Jacobs English industrialist (BSM)
 and Joan Lestor British Lower house member
1932 Olga Connolly-Fikotova Czech, US discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1956)
 and Richard Mulligan Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus)
1933 Adrienne Corri Glasgow Scotland, actress (River, Dr Zhivago)
1934 Garry Marshall NYC, producer (Laverne & Shirley)
1937 Kamahl [Kamalesvaran], Australian singer (Elephant Song)
1938 Jean Seberg Marshaltown Iowa, actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon)
1940 Joan Haanappel figure skater/sports reporter
 and Justine "Baby" Washington US singer (Only Those in Love)
1941 Dack Rambo Delano Calif, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas)
 and Mel Stottlemyre Wash, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach (NY Met)
1942 Beth Brickell Camden Arkansas, actress (Gentle Ben)
1943 John Paul Hammond NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads)
1944 Timmy Thomas US singer/songwriter (Why Can't We Live Together)
 and Wouter R van Romondt Dutch/Dutch Antillean cartoonist
1946 Martin Bresnick composer
1947 Joe Mantegna Chicago Ill, actor (House of Games, Weeds)
1948 Sheila Frazier NYC, actress (Gloria-Lazarus Syndrome)
1949 Roger Steen rock guitarist/vocalist (Tubes)
 and Terry Reid rock guitarist (River, Bang Bang You're Terry Reid)
 and Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], NYC, actress (Color Purple, Burglar)
1951 Beth Anders Norristown Penn, field hockey sweeper (Oly-bronze-1984)
 and Bill Gibson Calif, rock drummer (Huey Lewis & The News)
 and Janet Collins ballerina, 1st Black dancer with Opera Co (Aida)
1953 Andy "the Clobberer" Ranken English pop drummer (The Pogues)
 and Larry Miller comedian
 and Tracy Scoggins Galveston Tx, actress (Colbys, Gumshoe Kid)
1956 Aldo Nova rocker (Blood on the Bricks)
 and Christopher Noth actor (Jakarta)
1957 Ronald Shusett Hamburg Germany, author (Project Mankind)
1961 Edwin "Rick" Baker Dutch author (Rick's Report, AIDS Diary)
1963 Thilo Timothy Newman Hamburg Germany
1965 Zeljko Petrovic soccer player (FC The Bosch/RKC)
1967 Randi Ingerman Phila Pa, actress (Trade Winds)
1968 Tami Whitlinger-Jones Neenah Wisc, tennis star
1971 John Francis Zingg Boston Mass, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
 and Noah Hathaway actor (Troll, Neverending Story)
1972 Shom-Rock rocker (Young Nation)
 and T-Haxx rocker (DYC)
1975 Sarah Pitkowski Seclin France, tennis star
 Deaths Which Occured November 13: 
 867 Nicholas I (the Great), pope (858-67), dies
1004 Abbo van Fleury [Floriacensis], French abbott/saint, dies
1093 Edward Macduncan Scot crown prince/son of Malcolm II, dies in battle
     Malcolm III MacDuncan king of Scotland, dies in battle
1288 Beatrice van Kortr˜k/Brabant Belgian wife of king Henry, dies at 63
1319 Erik VI Menved king of Denmark (1286-1319), dies
1359 Ivan II great ruler of Moscow & Vladimir, dies
1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1620 Louise de Coligny French 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1624 Thomas Erpenius [van Erp], ori‰ntalist/arab (Arab grammatica), dies
1687 Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 37
1689 Philipp von Zesen German poet (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70
1706 Godfried Schalcken painter/etcher/engraver, dies
1770 George Grenville British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58
1771 Conrad E Ackermann German actor/theater director, dies at 61
1779 Thomas Chippendale English furniture maker, dies at 61
1829 Sam Patch loses his live in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
1849 William Etty English painter (nudist), dies at 62
1863 Carnot Posey Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 50
1868 Gioachino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1877 Pietro Coppola composer, dies at 83
1893 Antoine T d'abbadie French explorer: Ethiopia, dies at 78
1896 Antonio Pena y Goni composer, dies at 50
1903 Wilhelm von Polenz German author (Country of Zukunft), dies
1909 Aeneas Mackay Dutch Internal minister (ARP)/Colonization, dies at 70
1916 Frederik Septimus Kelly composer, dies at 35
1917 Emile Durkheim French sociologist (Le suicide), dies
1918 Marten Baersma [MH Bottema], Fries author, dies at 28
1928 Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski Polish/German orientalist, dies at 60
1939 George Nicholls Jr actor (Finishing School), dies at 42
1942 Daniel J Callaghan US spy (at Guadalcanal), dies
     Douglas H Fox US captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle
     Norman Scott US admiral (at Guadalcanal), dies
1944 Paul Graener composer, dies at 72
     Wang Tjing-Wei premier China (1932-35), dies
1950 G”sta Forsell Swedish radiologist, dies at 74
1951 Hugo Leichtentritt composer, dies at 77
     Nikolai Karlovich Metner composer, dies at 71
1954 Fay Baker actress (Sorority Girl), dies at 60
1957 Anton¡n Z potocky premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 72
1958 Bart A Van de Leck painter (Style), dies at 81
1961 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63
     Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1967 Pierre Moulaert composer, dies at 60
1973 Bruno Maderna Italian composer/conductor, dies at 53
     Bruno Maderna composer, dies at 53
     Elsa Schiaparelli French fashion designer, dies at 77
     Lila Lee actress  (Blood & Sand), dies of stroke at 68
1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
     Vittorio de Sica Italian actor/director (Boccacio 70), dies
1982 Babette Deutsch US poetess, dies at 87
     Chesney Allen actress (Okay for Sound, Frozen Limits), dies at 88
     Dorothy [Little-]Round England, tennis star (Never on Sund@y), dies
1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56
1984 Dorothy Arnold actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66
     ML de Braauw esquire/DS'70-minister of Wetenschapsbeleid, dies at 59
1986 Rolando Olalia Philippines worker's union leader, murdered
     Rudolf Schock German opera/operetta singer, dies at 71
1988 Antal Dorati Hungarian/US conductor/composer, dies at 82
1990 Charlie Carpenter dies at 77
1991 Ad Kosto Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb
     Cyril Poitier actor (Uptown Saturday Night), dies of cancer at 80
     Hanson Baldwin US military historian, dies at 88
1992 Alan Balsam US movie editor (Divine Madness), dies
     Bobby Mcclure US singer (Don't mess up a good thing), dies at 50)
     Gregory Markopoulos German/US director (Iliac Passion, Bliss), dies
     Lucrecia Perez Dominicans in Spain (Racist Murder), dies at 33
     Maurice Ohana pianist/composer, dies
1993 Jos‚ Toirkens journalist (Slogan, NRC), dies at 48
1994 Joseph H Hazen US producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
 Holidays Which Occur November 13: 
     Grenada, New Zealand Rememberance Day
     Laos King's Birthday
 Religious Observances on November 13: 
     RC Brictius, bishop of Tours
     RC Eugenius II, poet/archbishop of Toledo
     RC Pope St Nicolas I day
     RC Stanislaus, jesuit/mystic
1463 RC Commemoration of St Didacus, confessor
1917 RC-US Memorial of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin, (1850-1917)
 Things to Remember for November 13: 
     Flower-chrysanthemum         Gem-topaz
     International Creative Child & Adult Month
     National Raisin Bread & Television Sweeps Month
     [NY] Puerto Rican Heritage Month
  2 Days Taurid meteor shower
  8 Days Astrological sign:  Scorpio
     [Ancient Rome] Idus November
 Highlights in History Which Occur November 13: 
 866 Pope Nicolaas I answers envoys of Boris (Ad consulta vestra)
 867 St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
 and King Aethelred Viking colony massacre in South England
1511 England signs on to the Saint League
1553 English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason
1565 King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels
 and Pope Pius IV publishes degree Professi fidei
1642 Battle at Turnham Green, London: King Charles I vs English parliament
1673 Prince Willem III/Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn
1715 Battle at Sheriffmuir: English army beats Scottish earl of Mar
 and Pro-James Edward Stuart-rebellion surrenders
1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montr‚al
1781 English troops occupy Negapatam Ceylon
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
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
1851 1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands & Orange"
 and Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked
1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1865 1st US gold certificates issued
 and PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
 and US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
 and National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1885 Serbian army occupies Bulgaria
1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
19-- Felix Unger is asked by his wife to leave (Odd Couple)
1900 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #622 Esther
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor)
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
 and Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1916 British offensive at Ancre Belgium
1918 Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck & Pyrmont abdicates throne
 and Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
 and Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg
1920 Hudson River frozen at Albany (1820?)
1921 "Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
 and US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1922 Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY
 and George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly," premieres in NYC
 and Marc Connelly/George Kaufman's "'49ers," premieres in NYC
1926 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1930 WA Drake's "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn
1935 Anti-British riots in Egypt
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
 and German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic
1942 Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
 and Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1950 US win 1st world championship bridge contest
1952 KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 4th Strijkkwartet
1955 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
 and Argentine gen Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
 and Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
1961 WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
 and Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
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 depts of bias & distortion
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
 and Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
 and Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
 and 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
 and Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77)
1978 NASA launches HEAO
1979 British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year
 and Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president
1980 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3206 & #3609
 and Z Knezevic discovers asteroid #3176 Paolicchi
1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
 and Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1984 David Levy finds his 1st comet
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
 and Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
 and US president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
1987 1st condom commercial on BBC TV
1989 Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & "Ou Est Le Soleil"
1991 Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party-asst sec of state
1992 Riddick Bowe beats Evander Hollyfield to win boxing heavyweight title
1993 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
 and Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed
 and Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
1994 Sweden agrees to join European Union
1854  'New Era' sinks New Jersey coast with the loss of 300.
1909  Fire inside the Saint Paul mine at Cherry, Illinois kills 259.
1960  Fire in crowded movie theater kills 152 children, burning
      355 others. (Amude, Spain)
1965  Cruise ship 'Yarmouth Castle' burned and sank off Bahamas,
      killing 89 of 550 passengers aboard.
1970  Cyclone hits Chittagong, East Pakistan. May have killed 1 million.
 Your Special Reminders for November 13: 
     1931   73øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
 and 1986   24øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
 and 317th day of year with 48 days left    (Numerology = 6)