November 13
1775 - During the American Revolution, the Continental Army captured Montreal.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote, in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1909 - 259 men and boys were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Illinois.
1927 - Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1942 - The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal began.
1954 - Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. An estimated 20 million immigrants were processed through the site in its 62 years of operation.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
1970 - A cyclone and resulting tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing more than 200,000 people.
1971 - The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars.
1974 - Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.
1979 - Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in New York.
1981 - The space shuttle Challenger was launched into orbit a second time, the first time a space vehicle had ever been used more than once.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
1985 - Some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.
1990 - Akihito became emperor of Japan.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York City.
2015 - Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated attacks in Paris at the national stadium, in a crowded concert hall, in restaurants and on streets, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War II.
2019 - The House Intelligence Committee opened two weeks of public impeachment hearings, with a dozen current and former career foreign service officials and political appointees scheduled to testify about efforts by President Donald Trump and others to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump’s political rivals.
2020 - Speaking publicly for the first time since his defeat by Joe Biden, President Donald Trump refused to concede the election.
Birthdays
28 - Lucy Fallon (actress)
28 - Stella Hudgens (actress)
30 - Julia Michaels (singer)
32 - Devon Bostick (actor)
38 - Rahul Kohli (actor)
43 - Monique Coleman (actress)
44 - Ron Artest (basketball player)
48 - Aisha Hinds (actress)
50 - Jordan Bridges (actor)
54 - Gerard Butler (actor)
56 - Steven Zahn (actor)
56 - Jimmy Kimmel (TV host)
60 - Vinny Testaverde (football player)
63 - Neil Flynn (actor)
64 - Caroline Goodall (actress)
67 - Rex Linn (actor)
68 - Whoopi Goldberg (actress/comedian/TV host)
69 - Chris Noth (actor)
70 - Tracy Scoggins (actress)
75 - Sheila Frazier (actress)
76 - Joe Mantegna (actor)
81 - John Hammond (singer)
82 - Jimmy Hawkins (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 13
1875 - Harvard and Yale play the first college football game featuring distinct uniforms.
1900 - The Baltimore Orioles (now the New York Yankees) entered major league baseball's American League.
1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1934 - Ralph "Scotty" Bowman (St. Louis Eagles) scored the first penalty shot goal in NHL history.
1958 - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball league called the Continental League, to fill the void created by the city's Giants and Dodgers moving to the west coast.
1982 - WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini beats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in the 14th round in Las Vegas. Kim collapses and falls into a coma and dies four days later; as a result, the WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; the WBA and WBO follow in 1988 and the IBF does the same in 1989.
1995 - Greg Maddox (Atlanta Braves) became the first pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.
2017 - The Oakland Raiders broke ground on a 65,000-seat domed stadium in Las Vegas.
1775 - During the American Revolution, the Continental Army captured Montreal.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote, in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1909 - 259 men and boys were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Illinois.
1927 - Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1942 - The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal began.
1954 - Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. An estimated 20 million immigrants were processed through the site in its 62 years of operation.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
1970 - A cyclone and resulting tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing more than 200,000 people.
1971 - The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars.
1974 - Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.
1979 - Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in New York.
1981 - The space shuttle Challenger was launched into orbit a second time, the first time a space vehicle had ever been used more than once.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
1985 - Some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.
1990 - Akihito became emperor of Japan.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York City.
2015 - Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated attacks in Paris at the national stadium, in a crowded concert hall, in restaurants and on streets, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War II.
2019 - The House Intelligence Committee opened two weeks of public impeachment hearings, with a dozen current and former career foreign service officials and political appointees scheduled to testify about efforts by President Donald Trump and others to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump’s political rivals.
2020 - Speaking publicly for the first time since his defeat by Joe Biden, President Donald Trump refused to concede the election.
Birthdays
28 - Lucy Fallon (actress)
28 - Stella Hudgens (actress)
30 - Julia Michaels (singer)
32 - Devon Bostick (actor)
38 - Rahul Kohli (actor)
43 - Monique Coleman (actress)
44 - Ron Artest (basketball player)
48 - Aisha Hinds (actress)
50 - Jordan Bridges (actor)
54 - Gerard Butler (actor)
56 - Steven Zahn (actor)
56 - Jimmy Kimmel (TV host)
60 - Vinny Testaverde (football player)
63 - Neil Flynn (actor)
64 - Caroline Goodall (actress)
67 - Rex Linn (actor)
68 - Whoopi Goldberg (actress/comedian/TV host)
69 - Chris Noth (actor)
70 - Tracy Scoggins (actress)
75 - Sheila Frazier (actress)
76 - Joe Mantegna (actor)
81 - John Hammond (singer)
82 - Jimmy Hawkins (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 13
1875 - Harvard and Yale play the first college football game featuring distinct uniforms.
1900 - The Baltimore Orioles (now the New York Yankees) entered major league baseball's American League.
1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1934 - Ralph "Scotty" Bowman (St. Louis Eagles) scored the first penalty shot goal in NHL history.
1958 - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball league called the Continental League, to fill the void created by the city's Giants and Dodgers moving to the west coast.
1982 - WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini beats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in the 14th round in Las Vegas. Kim collapses and falls into a coma and dies four days later; as a result, the WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; the WBA and WBO follow in 1988 and the IBF does the same in 1989.
1995 - Greg Maddox (Atlanta Braves) became the first pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.
2017 - The Oakland Raiders broke ground on a 65,000-seat domed stadium in Las Vegas.
