On This Day In History
0354 St Augustine of Hippo Numidia, Algeria, convert/Christian philosopher
1312 Edward III king of England (1327-77)
1504 Philip the Generous count of Hessen
1804 Theophilus Hunter Holmes Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1809 John AB Dahlgren US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon)
1831 James Maxwell Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity)
1833 Edwin Thomas Booth US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
1838 Joseph F Smith 6th President of Mormon church
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
1854 George Whitefield Chadwick Lowell MA, composer (Judi Van Winke)
1856 Louis D Brandeis Massachusetts, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
1882 John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall)
1898 Earl Sande jockey (Hall of Famer)
1906 Hermione Baddeley England, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life)
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)
1922 Jack Narz Louisville KY, TV gameshow host (Dotto, Video Village)
1922 Oskar Werner film actor/director (Shoes of the Fisherman)
1923 Linda Christian Tampico, Mexico, actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone)
1930 Fred Harris (Sen-D-Oklahoma)
1932 Richard Mulligan Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus)
1938 Jean Seberg Marshaltown Iowa, actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon)
1941 Dack Rambo Delano CA, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas)
1941 Mel Stottlemyre Wash, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach (NY Met)
1943 John Paul Hammond NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads)
1949 Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], NYC, actress/big mouth idiot (Color Purple, Burglar)
1963 Vinny Testaverde (football: Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, NY Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: quarterback; Heisman Trophy winner: University of Miami [1986])
Deaths which occurred on November 13:
0867 St Nicholas I (the Great) pope (858-67), dies
1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1687 Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 37
1770 George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58
1779 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61
1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1942 Douglas H Fox US captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle
1961 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56
1984 Dorothy Arnold actress, dies at 66
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1964 BLOOM DARL R.---MORRISDALE PA.
[AIR COLLISION NO PARA SEEN]
1965 JENKINS HARRY T.WASHINGTON DC.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, DECEASED
1968 ERSKINE JACK D.
[VC SKETCHES OF ERSKINE FOUND]
1969 RAY RONALD E.---PORT ARTHUR TX.
1970 BANCROFT WILLIAM W.---INDIANAPOLIS IN.
1970 WRIGHT DAVID I.---ANNAPOLIS MD.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0867 St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1474 In the Swiss-Burgundian Wars, Swiss infantry shatters the army of Charles the Bold at Hericourt near Belfort, countering his march to Lorraine.
1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal
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
1835 Texans officially proclaim independence from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845
1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS
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
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1878 New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace offers amnesty to many participants of the Lincoln County War, but not to gunfighter Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid's Great Escape.
1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1900 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1914 The brassiere, invented by Caresse Crosby, is patented
1921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
1940 U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that African Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods.
1941 A German U-boat, the U-81 torpedoes Great Britain's premier aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal. The ship sinks the next day.
1942 Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1955 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1964 Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
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 depths of bias & distortion
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
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 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously
1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
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. the next day - prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Grenada, New Zealand : Rememberance Day
Laos : King's Birthday
England : Lord Mayor's Day
US : Winter Weather Awareness Day
Peanut Butter Lover's Month
Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of St Didacus, confessor
RC-US : Memorial of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin, (1850-1917)
Religious History
0354 Birth of St. Augustine of Hippo, greatest of the Early Latin Church Fathers. Of his many writings, two have endured: "Confessions" describes the circumstances leading to his conversion to the Christian faith, and "The City of God" was written as a Christian view of the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in the year 410.
1564 Pius IV ordered his bishops and scholars to subscribe to "Professio Fidei," the Profession of the Tridentine Faith recently formulated at the Council of Trent (1545_63) as the new and final definition of the Roman Catholic faith.
1618 In the Dutch commune of Dordrecht, the Synod of Dort convened to discuss the Arminian controversy vexing the Reformed faith. In the end, about 200 Arminian (Remonstrant) ministers were deposed and fifteen were placed under arrest and later expelled from the country.
1804 Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'God and eternal things are my only pleasure.'
1962 The name of St. Joseph was added to the canon of the Roman Catholic mass. It constituted the first alteration made to this canon since the seventh century.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (
pilgrimwb@aol.com)
Thought for the day :
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge."
Office Inspirational Sayings...
Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
Things I learned from children...
When you hear the toilet flush and the words "Uh-oh," it's
already too late.
Signs You Need Anger-Management Counseling...
You got kicked off the debate team after one too many "F*** off, ***hole!" rebuttals.
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