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Events from History on November 13

1002 : English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
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
1565 : 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
1715 : 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"
1851 : 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
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
1885 : Serbian army occupies Bulgaria
1895 : 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
xxxx : Felix Unger is asked by his wife to leave (Odd Couple)
1900 : Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1906 : C W Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland
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
1909 : Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1913 : 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
1916 : British offensive at Ancre Belgium
1918 : Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck & Pyrmont abdicates throne
1918 : Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918 : Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg
1920 : Hudson River frozen at Albany (1820?)
1921 : "Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 : US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1922 : Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY
1922 : George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly," premieres in NYC
1922 : 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
1928 : Bradman scores 132* for NSW against MCC
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
1938 : America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified
1940 : Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
1941 : British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean
1941 : German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic
1942 : Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
1942 : Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1945 : Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India
1946 : 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1946 : Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI v the MCC
1948 : "As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 420 perfs
1950 : US win 1st world championship bridge contest
1951 : 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan)
1951 : Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio & Billy Martin, lose
1952 : False fingernails 1st sold
1952 : KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 : Dmitri Shostakovitch' 4th String Quartet, premieres
1955 : 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1955 : Argentine gen Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president
1956 : Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1958 : NYC Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball
1958 : called the Continental League
1960 : Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1960 : Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
1961 : WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 : Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
1965 : "Skyscraper" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances
1965 : "Yarmouth Castle" burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1965 : Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "Fuck" on BBC
1967 : Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
1967 : NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle & Kansas City
1968 : Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP
1969 : VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias & distortion
1970 : Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 : Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
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 : "Gigi" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 103 performances
1974 : Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP
1975 : "Musical Jubilee" opens at St James Theater NYC for 92 performances
1977 : 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1977 : Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77)
1978 : NASA launches HEAO
1979 : British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year
1979 : Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president
1980 : Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns
1980 : Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3206 & #3609
1980 : US spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
1980 : Z Knezevic discovers asteroid #3176 Paolicchi
1980 : the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend
1981 : Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
1982 : Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 : L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #5021 Krylania
1982 : 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
1985 : Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1986 : Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World
1986 : NASA launches space vehicle S-199
1986 : US president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
1987 : 1st condom commercial on BBC TV
1987 : S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #4863 Yasutani
1988 : M Yanai & K Watanabe discover asteroid #6707
1989 : Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & "Ou Est Le Soleil"
1990 : A Takahashi & K Watanabe discover asteroid #5214 Oozora
1990 : C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #4805 Discovers asteropaios
1990 : M Mukai & M Takeishi discover asteroid #5139 Rumoi
1990 : Oakland's Bob Welch wins AL Cy Young Award
1991 : Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party-asst sec of state
1991 : Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award
1991 : S Otomo discovers asteroid #5488 Kiyosato
1992 : Riddick Bowe beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
1993 : 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
1993 : Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed
1993 : Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
1994 : Sweden agrees to join European Union
1996 : "Three Sisters," closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1996 : Joel Armengaud discovers 2^1398269 - 1 (35th known Mersenne prime)
1996 : Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP
1997 : "Lion King," opens at New Amersterdam Theater NYC
1997 : Ken Griffey Jr unanimously wins AL MVP
1997 : UN pulls out arms inspection teams from Iraq

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