Today in History for November 1913

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 13 of 13

1st - Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively
2nd - St Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
3rd - The USA introduces an income tax.
5th - Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
6th - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in S Afr
9th - Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
13th - 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
17th - 1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Ct
18th - Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
26th - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
26th - Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
28th - Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Andre Spaul in Paris
29th - 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 34 of 34

2nd - Burt Lancaster, NYC, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry)
2nd - Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor
4th - Gig Young, St. Cloud Minnesota, American actor (They Shoot Horses Don't They)
5th - John McGiver, NYC, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show)
5th - Vivien Leigh, (Gone With Wind) Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn
7th - Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (d. 1960)
8th - Robert Strauss, NYC, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey)
8th - June Havoc, American actress
9th - Hedy Lamarr, Vienna Austria, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)
9th - Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps)
10th - Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
10th - Arthur Mullard, comedian
10th - Thelma Hulbert, painter
11th - German Leont'yevich Zhukovsky, composer
11th - Peter Black, TV critic
13th - Alexander Scourby, Brooklyn, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant)
13th - Lon Nol, Cambodian politician (d. 1985)
13th - Helen Mack, American actress (d. 1986)
15th - Rick Schagen, Dutch actress (Saartje-Swiebertje)
Author Albert Camus (7th) 15th - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
20th - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)
21st - Roy Boulting, British film director (d. 2001)
22nd - Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar's Opera)
22nd - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
24th - Gisela Mauermeyer, Germany, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1936)
24th - Howard Duff, Bremerton Washington, actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing)
25th - Jack Davies, screenwriter
25th - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
26th - Foy Draper, US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
26th - Joshua William Steward, polymath
27th - Frances Swem Anderson, technologist (nuclear medicine)
27th - Robert Dougall, English TV host
28th - Hugo Pos, Suriname/Neth WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo
30th - John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host (One Minute Please)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

25th - 28th US president Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in The White House

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 3 of 3

3rd - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer, dies at 83
7th - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
25th - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies

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