November 13
1775 - U.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1856 - Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
1927 - The world's first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey, linking the two states beneath the Hudson River.
1940 - Walt Disney's Fantasia debuted.
1942 - The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.
1946 - Vincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.
1969 - Speaking in Des Moines, Cockeye, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
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, was killed in a car crash while on her way to meet with a reporter.
1982 - The Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1985 - Some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.
1998 - President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to settle a sexual harassmeent lawsuit.
2000 - Lawyers for George W. Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida; Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced she would end the recounting at 5 p.m. Eastern time the next day -- prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
2001 - The Taliban abandoned Afghanistan's capital of Kabul when the Northern Alliance entered the city.
2001 - President George W. Bush approved the use of a special military tribunal that could put accused terrorists on trial faster and in great secrecy than an ordinary criminal court.
2001 - President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the White House, pledging to slash Cold War-era nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.
2002 - Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq.
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel after refusing to remove a granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse.
2009 - Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans to try professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in civilian court in New York City. (The Obama administration later backed off the plan.)
2010 - Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel announced his candidacy for mayor of Chicago.
2015 - Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated attacks in Paris on the national stadium, restaurants and streets, and a crowded concert hall, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War II.
2016 - President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media executive Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist.
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 President Donald Trump and others to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump's political rivals. The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, offered new evidence that Trump was overheard asking about political "investigations" that he later demanded from Ukraine in exchange for military aid.
Birthdays
22 - Emma DeLury (model)
25 - Lucy Fallon (actress)
25 - Stella Hudgens (actress)
27 - Julia Michaels (singer)
29 - Matt Bennett (actor)
29 - Devon Bostick (actor)
31 - Candace B. Harris (actress)
34 - Alex Wong (actor)
35 - Rahul Kohli (actor)
38 - Crystal Mills (reality star)
40 - Monique Coleman (actress)
41 - Metta World Peace (basketball player)
45 - Aisha Hinds (actress)
47 - Jordan Bridges (actor)
51 - Gerard Butler (actor)
53 - Steve Zahn (actor)
53 - Jimmy Kimmel (TV host)
57 - Vinny Testaverde (football player)
60 - Neil Flynn (actor)
61 - Caroline Goodall (actress)
64 - Rex Linn (actor)
65 - Whoopi Goldberg (actress/comedian/TV host)
66 - Chris Noth (actor)
67 - Tracy Scoggins (actress)
72 - Sheila Frazier (actress)
73 - Joe Mantegna (actor)
79 - Jimmy Hawkins (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 13
1875 - Harvard and Yale play the first college football game featuring team uniforms.
1897 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 10-5.
1900 - The Baltimore Orioles (now the New York Yankees) enter the American League.
1915 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 33-0.
1920 - Nebraska and Kansas played to a 20-20 tie.
1926 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 3-0.
1934 - Ralph "Scotty" Bowman (St. Louis Eagles) scored the first penalty shot goal in NHL history.
1937 - #1 Pittsburgh defeated #11 Nebraska 13-7.
1943 - Nebraska's game against Pittsburgh is canceled due to World War II travel restrictions.
1948 - #9 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 41-14.
1954 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 21-7.
1965 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 21-17.
1971 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 44-17.
1976 - Cockeye State upsets #9 Nebraska 37-28.
1982 - #4 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 48-10.
1982 - WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini defeats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in the 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapses, 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 suit in 1988, and the IBF does in 1989.)
1985 - Dwight Gooden, baseball's youngest-ever 20-game winner, wins the Cy Young Award.
1991 - Roger Clemens won his third American League Cy Young Award.
1992 - Riddick Bowe wins the undisputed heavyweight championship with a unanimous points decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas, the first of three meetings between the two boxers.
1993 - #4 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 49-17.
1995 - Greg Maddox of the Atlanta braves became the first pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.
1999 - #7 Nebraska defeats #5 Kansas State 41-15.
2004 - #2 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 30-3.
2010 - #9 Nebraska defeats Kansas 20-3.
2014 - Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first pitcher to win the National League MVP award since Bob Gibson in 1968.
2017 - Italy fails to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. It is the first time the nation had missed the tournament since 1958.
1775 - U.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1856 - Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
1927 - The world's first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey, linking the two states beneath the Hudson River.
1940 - Walt Disney's Fantasia debuted.
1942 - The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.
1946 - Vincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.
1969 - Speaking in Des Moines, Cockeye, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
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, was killed in a car crash while on her way to meet with a reporter.
1982 - The Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1985 - Some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.
1998 - President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to settle a sexual harassmeent lawsuit.
2000 - Lawyers for George W. Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida; Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced she would end the recounting at 5 p.m. Eastern time the next day -- prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
2001 - The Taliban abandoned Afghanistan's capital of Kabul when the Northern Alliance entered the city.
2001 - President George W. Bush approved the use of a special military tribunal that could put accused terrorists on trial faster and in great secrecy than an ordinary criminal court.
2001 - President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the White House, pledging to slash Cold War-era nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.
2002 - Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq.
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel after refusing to remove a granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse.
2009 - Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans to try professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in civilian court in New York City. (The Obama administration later backed off the plan.)
2010 - Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel announced his candidacy for mayor of Chicago.
2015 - Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated attacks in Paris on the national stadium, restaurants and streets, and a crowded concert hall, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War II.
2016 - President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media executive Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist.
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 President Donald Trump and others to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump's political rivals. The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, offered new evidence that Trump was overheard asking about political "investigations" that he later demanded from Ukraine in exchange for military aid.
Birthdays
22 - Emma DeLury (model)
25 - Lucy Fallon (actress)
25 - Stella Hudgens (actress)
27 - Julia Michaels (singer)
29 - Matt Bennett (actor)
29 - Devon Bostick (actor)
31 - Candace B. Harris (actress)
34 - Alex Wong (actor)
35 - Rahul Kohli (actor)
38 - Crystal Mills (reality star)
40 - Monique Coleman (actress)
41 - Metta World Peace (basketball player)
45 - Aisha Hinds (actress)
47 - Jordan Bridges (actor)
51 - Gerard Butler (actor)
53 - Steve Zahn (actor)
53 - Jimmy Kimmel (TV host)
57 - Vinny Testaverde (football player)
60 - Neil Flynn (actor)
61 - Caroline Goodall (actress)
64 - Rex Linn (actor)
65 - Whoopi Goldberg (actress/comedian/TV host)
66 - Chris Noth (actor)
67 - Tracy Scoggins (actress)
72 - Sheila Frazier (actress)
73 - Joe Mantegna (actor)
79 - Jimmy Hawkins (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 13
1875 - Harvard and Yale play the first college football game featuring team uniforms.
1897 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 10-5.
1900 - The Baltimore Orioles (now the New York Yankees) enter the American League.
1915 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 33-0.
1920 - Nebraska and Kansas played to a 20-20 tie.
1926 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 3-0.
1934 - Ralph "Scotty" Bowman (St. Louis Eagles) scored the first penalty shot goal in NHL history.
1937 - #1 Pittsburgh defeated #11 Nebraska 13-7.
1943 - Nebraska's game against Pittsburgh is canceled due to World War II travel restrictions.
1948 - #9 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 41-14.
1954 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 21-7.
1965 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 21-17.
1971 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 44-17.
1976 - Cockeye State upsets #9 Nebraska 37-28.
1982 - #4 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 48-10.
1982 - WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini defeats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in the 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapses, 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 suit in 1988, and the IBF does in 1989.)
1985 - Dwight Gooden, baseball's youngest-ever 20-game winner, wins the Cy Young Award.
1991 - Roger Clemens won his third American League Cy Young Award.
1992 - Riddick Bowe wins the undisputed heavyweight championship with a unanimous points decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas, the first of three meetings between the two boxers.
1993 - #4 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 49-17.
1995 - Greg Maddox of the Atlanta braves became the first pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.
1999 - #7 Nebraska defeats #5 Kansas State 41-15.
2004 - #2 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 30-3.
2010 - #9 Nebraska defeats Kansas 20-3.
2014 - Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first pitcher to win the National League MVP award since Bob Gibson in 1968.
2017 - Italy fails to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. It is the first time the nation had missed the tournament since 1958.