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Today In History - November 13 |
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1977 The final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" runs (1934-1977) Amazingly, almost half of the total US population read Li'l Abner, and the popularity of the two leading characters, Li'l Abner and Sadie Hawkins, is attested to by the fact that when they married in the comic strip, they made the covers of magazines such as Time, and Life. |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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354 Aurelius Augustine 1312 Edward III, King of England 1504 Philip the Generous 1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow 1714 William Shenstone 1718 Anton Laube 1759 Timothy Olmstead 1789 Martin de Ron 1792 Edward John Trelawney 1804 Theophilus Hunter Holmes 1813 John Wolcott Phelps 1814 Joseph Hooker 1819 Henry Brinley Richards 1831 James Maxwell 1833 Edwin Thomas Booth 1834 Ignacio M. Altamirano 1838 Joseph F. Smith 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson 1854 George Whitfield Chadwick 1855 Daniel F. Scheurleer 1856 Louis D. Brandeis 1856 Sigwart Aspestrand 1858 Percy McDonnell 1868 Pierre Maurice 1870 Henry Kolker 1875 Rogelio del Villar 1878 John C. Kielstra 1879 Maurice Delage 1902 Gustav von Koenigswald 1904 Gertrude Olmsted 1906 Conrad Thibault 1906 Hermione Baddeley 1907 Lewis Boddington 1909 Gunnar Bjornstrand 1909 Paul de Vree 1913 Alexander Scourby 1915 Howard Cooke 1915 Robert Sutton 1916 Jack Elam 1917 Robert Sterling 1918 Janine Andrade 1921 Eddie Calhoun 1921 Joonas Kokkonen 1921 Yoshiro Irino 1922 Jack Narz 1922 Madeleine Sherwood 1922 Oskar Werner 1923 Linda Christian 1925 Inez van Dullemen 1926 Max Vernon Mathews 1932 Richard Mulligan 1933 Adrienne Corri 1933 Clyde McPhatter 1933 Peter Hartling 1934 Garry Marshall 1935 Thomas Augustine Martin 1938 Jean Seberg 1940 Jack Birkenshaw 1940 Joan Haanappel 1940 Justine "Baby" Washington 1941 Dack Rambo 1941 Mel Stottlemyre 1942 Beth Brickell 1943 John Paul Hammond 1943 Robert Jay Sigel 1944 Ken Shuttleworth 1944 Timmy Thomas 1947 Joe Mantegna 1948 Sheila Frazier 1949 Roger Steen 1949 Terry Reid 1949 Whoopi Goldberg 1950 Gilbert Perreault 1951 Beth Anders 1951 Bill Gibson 1951 Janet Collins 1953 Tracy Scoggins 1956 Aldo Nova 1956 Christopher Noth 1957 Ronald Shusett 1958 Linda Jackson 1959 Anne Manning 1959 Rosie Jones 1961 Edwin "Rick" Bakker 1962 Blair Rasmussen 1962 Gaetano Orlando 1963 Thilo Timothy Newman 1963 Vinny Testaverde 1964 Ronald Agenor 1965 Kevin Gamble 1965 Rob Natal 1965 Sheryl Boyle 1965 Zeljko Petrovic 1966 Rumeal Robinson 1967 Randi Ingerman 1967 Steve Christie 1968 Mark Fitzpatrick 1968 Pat Hentgen 1968 Tami Whitlinger-Jones 1971 Anthony Whiteman 1971 Craig Powell 1971 John Francis Zingg 1971 Noah Hathaway 1972 Kimberlee Ann McKay 1973 George Harris 1973 Samantha Riley 1975 Sarah Pitkowski 1977 Tammy Leigh Ashton 1981 Kirsty-Leigh Brown |
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On This Date in History |
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866 Pope Nicholas I answers the envoys of Boris 1002 English King Ethelred II launches the massacre of Danish settlers 1511 England signs on to the Saint League 1553 English Lady Jane Grey and Bishop Cranmer are accused of high treason 1565 King Philip II's "Letters of Segovia" reaches Brussels 1565 Pope Pius IV publishes decree: Professi fidei 1642 The Battle at Turnham Green 1673 Prince Willem III conquers Bonn 1715 Battle at Sheriffmuir 1715 Pro-James Edward Stuart-rebellion surrenders 1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal 1781 English troops occupy Negapatam, Ceylon 1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing is certain but death and taxes" 1830 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides" 1839 The first U.S. anti-slavery party, the Liberty Party, convenes in NY 1843 Mt. Rainier erupts 1849 Peter Burnett is elected the first governor of California 1851 The first meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands and Orange" 1851 The telegraph connection between London and Paris is linked 1854 The "New Era" sinks off the New Jersey coast and 300 people die 1862 The Battle of Holly Spring, MS 1865 The first U.S. gold certificates are issued 1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport 1868 The American Philological Association is organized in NY 1875 The Harvard-Yale game is first college football contest with uniforms 1875 The National Bowling Association organized in New York City 1885 The Serbian army occupies Bulgaria 1895 The first shipment of canned pineapple ships from Hawaii 1907 French bicyclist Paul Cornu flies first the helicopter 1909 259 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine at Cherry, IL 1913 The first modern elastic brassiere is patented by Mary Phelps Jacob 1916 The British offensive at Ancre Belgium 1918 Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont abdicates the throne 1918 Russia cancels the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1921 "Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released 1921 The U.S., France, Japan, and the British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty 1922 The Black Renaissance begins Harlem, NY 1927 NY to New Jersey Holland Tunnel, first twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens 1931 Hattie Caraway is appointed the first U.S. woman senator 1933 The first modern sit-down strike: Hormel meat packers in Austin, MN 1935 Anti-British riots erupt in Egypt 1937 NBC forms the first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio 1938 America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, is beatified 1941 The British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in the Mediterranean 1941 The German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic 1942 The "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal 1942 Minimum draft age is lowered from 21 to 18 1946 The first artificial snow is produced from a natural cloud 1950 The U.S. wins the first world championship bridge contest 1952 False fingernails are first sold 1955 Argentine general Pedro Aramburu succeeds E. Lonardi as president 1955 The first live telecast from a non-contiguous foreign country: Havana Cuba 1956 The Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses 1960 Fire in a movie theater kills 152 children in Amude, Spain 1960 Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt 1964 Pope Paul VI gives a tiara to the poor 1966 Sandra Haynie wins the LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open 1969 VP Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news department of 'bias and distortion' 1970 A cyclone kills estimated 300,000 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh 1970 Flooding ravages the Ganges Delta, 200,000-1 million people are killed 1977 The final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" runs (1934-1977) 1977 Silvia Bertolaccini wins the LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open 1978 NASA launches HEAO 1979 The British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year 1979 Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for president 1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim is fatally injured by boxer Ray Mancini 1982 The Vietnam War Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. 1983 Pat Bradley wins the LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1984 David Levy finds his first comet 1985 The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia and kills 25,000 people 1986 Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, is crowned the 36th Miss World 1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199 1986 U.S. President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran 1987 The first condom commercial on BBC TV 1993 A 7.1 seaquake occurred east of Kamchatka 1994 Sweden agrees to join the European Union 1997 The "Lion King," opens at the New Amersterdam Theater New York City 1997 The U.N. pulls out arms inspection teams from Iraq |
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