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1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces under the command of General Richard Montgomery captured the Canadian city of Montreal. Their presence in Canada, however, was not long lasting.1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in France (Jean Baptiste Le Roy), in which he said, “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
1805 - The people of Vienna (Wien), Austria point to the word wiener to prove their claim as the birthplace of the hot dog. It is said that master sausage maker Johann George Lahner, who made the first wiener this day, got his early training in Frankfurt, Germany. He called his sausage the wiener-frankfurter. But it was generally known as wienerwurst. The word wiener comes from Wien (the German name of Vienna) and wurst means sausage in German.
1907 - The world’s first manned helicopter flight was made. French pioneer Paul Cornu lifted a twin-rotored helicopter into the air entirely without assistance from the ground -- for a few seconds.
1921 - That great romancer of the silver screen, Rudolph Valentino, starred in The Sheik, which was released on this day. The Sheik firmly established Valentino’s popular reputation as the Great Lover, and his last film, the comical Son of the Sheik (1926) sealed that title. But the actor never thought of himself as a conqueror of women - nor as a great actor. He found the Sheik films rather silly. Valentino had plans to make more serious films beginning with an ambitious version of El Cid, to be called The Hooded Falcon. In town for the premiere of Son of the Sheik, he collapsed in New York on August 15, 1926. Valentino died eight days later from peritonitis -- before he could begin to work on films that would make the public forget his sheikly shenanigans. So the grandiose romantic persona persists, and we remember Rudolph Valentino as the Great Lover, The Sheik.
1927 - After seven years of construction and over $48 million, the Holland Tunnel, New York City’s connection to Jersey City, NJ, opened to traffic. It was named after the chief engineer of construction, Clifford Milburn Holland, who died before the tunnel was completed.
1930 - The first revolving milk platform was used -- in Plainsboro, NJ. For the first time, 1,680 cows could be milked in seven hours. Now that’s a lot of milk!
1933 - The first sit-down strike was started. The U.S. Workers at the Hormel Packing Company plant in Austin, Minnesota (the home of SPAM) took action against management.
1940 - Alice Marble turned pro. The tennis star signed for $25,000 plus a percentage of the gate receipts.
1940 - Walt Disney’s Fantasia opened at New York’s Broadway Theater. One critic called the film “As terrific as anything that has ever happened on the screen.” And for the first time, an audience was enveloped with surround sound music. The mix the audience heard this day was done on scene by a sound mixer in the theatre. The true ‘Fantasound’ format was to debut later.
1945 - Charles de Gaulle was appointed president of France. De Gaulle had created the temporary government of the République française in 1944, and had launched courageous reforms after France was freed from Nazi rule.
1946 - The first artificial snow was produced -- by Vincent J. Schaefer over Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts.
1948 - Bobby Clark, Irene Rich, Jeanette Aquilina, Truly Barbara, Betty Lou Barto and Lois Bolton starred in As the Girls Go, which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. The musical comedy ran thru Jan 14, 1950 with 414 performances.
1952 - Harvard’s Paul Zoll used electric shock to treat cardiac arrest. He was the first to do so.
1955 - NBC showed the first live TV program from a foreign country (noncontiguous). Scenes from Havana, Cuba were seen by viewers of Dave Garroway’s Wide Wide World program.
1956 - In a case from Montgomery, Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional, upholding a lower court decision (Browder v. Gayle).
1960 - Sammy Davis Jr. married Swedish actress May Britt. The couple divorced Dec 19, 1968.
1965 - Julie Harris starred in Skyscraper, which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway in New York City. The musical ran for seven months.
1968 - This was a good day for The Beatles. Their movie, Yellow Submarine, premiered in the U.S. and the single, Hey Jude, topped the pop music charts (it was in its 7th of 9 weeks at #1).
1970 - Lt. Gen. Hafez al-Assad became prime minister of Syria following a military coup.
1971 - Mariner 9 was placed in orbit around Mars. It was the first manmade spacecraft to orbit another planet.
1974 - Karen Silkwood, an employee at the Oklahoma Kerr-McGee plutonium fuels production plant, died after her car crashed off the road. During the week prior to her death, Silkwood was reportedly gathering evidence to support her claim that Kerr-McGee was negligent in maintaining plant safety, and at the same time, was involved in a number of unexplained exposures to plutonium. The circumstances of her death have been the subject of great speculation. This story was the basis for the 1983 film Silkwood.
1975 - “Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feeeelings.” One of the great lounge-lizard songs of all time, Feelings by Morris Albert, went gold.
1977 - After 43 years as a regular feature in hundreds of newspapers, Al Capp brought his comic strip, Li’l Abner, to a final conclusion.
1982 - Business as Usual, the album by Men at Work, started a fifteen-week run at number one in the U.S. The tracks: Who Can It Be Now?, I Can See It in Your Eyes, Down Under, Underground, Helpless Automation, People Just Love to Play with Words, Be Good Johnny, Touching the Untouchables, Catch a Star, Down by the Sea.
1985 - More than 25,000 people perished in a mud avalanche caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia.
1989 - Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received the Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George Bush (I) during a White House ceremony.
1992 - Riddick Bowe won the undisputed heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas with a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield.
1994 - Sweden voted to join the European Union. 52.3 percent of voters in a nationwide referendum chose to join the EU.
1995 - A bomb attack on a U.S.-run military center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed seven people, five of them Americans.
1995 - The U.S. government shut down because of a budget impasse between Congress and the President (Bill Clinton). It reopened a week later.
1997 - Iraq expelled six Americans on a U.N. weapons inspection team. The United Nations voted to withdraw all weapons inspectors from Iraq after tyrant Saddam Hussein ordered the Americans out.
1997 - The musical The Lion King debuted at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway. Based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name, the show features music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice. The Lion King moved to the Minskoff Theatre on June 13, 2006 -- where it is still running! As of October 22, 2017 8,302 shows had been presented.
1998 - These films made first runs in the U.S.: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Some Secrets Will Haunt You Forever), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Brandy Norwood; I’ll Be Home for Christmas (This Yule, be cool.), with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel and Adam Lavorgna; and Meet Joe Black (No one can die - while he loves!), starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani and Marcia Gay Harden.
1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit -- with no apology or admission of guilt -- ending the four-year legal battle that spurred the impeachment proceedings against him.
1999 - “For the winner by unanimous decision and undisputed heavyweight champion of the world . . . Lennox Lewis!” Lennox Lewis tattoed Evander Holyfield for 12 rounds in Las Vegas, Nevada to earn a unanimous decision and capture the title.
2000 - Lawyers for George Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. FL Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced that she would end all recounting at 5 p.m. the following day, prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
2001 - Afghan opposition fighters rolled into Kabul after Taliban troops slipped away under cover of darkness, abandoning the capital without a fight.
2002 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops approved a compromise sex abuse policy after the Vatican demanded they make changes to balance fairness to priests with compassion for victims of those priests.
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove his granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was removed from the bench by a judicial ethics panel for having “placed himself above the law.”
2003 - Éric Gagné of the Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League Cy Young Award.
2004 - Cartoonist Harry Lampert died. The illustrator created the DC Comics superhero The Flash (1940) and later became known for his instructional books on bridge.
2004 - Russell Jones, better know as rapper O.D.B. (Old Dirty Bastard), died in a New York City recording studio. He was 35 years old. Jones died of congestive heart failure as a result of an accidental drug overdose.
2005 - Eddie Guerrero, a performer for World Wrestling Entertainment’s SmackDown!, was found dead in his hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Guerrero died from a massive coronary while brushing his teeth. He was just 38 years old.
2006 - Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in Washington DC for a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr.
2006 - Admiral Gary Roughead, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, began a visit to China. His trip was an attempt at strengthening ties between the two navies and at gaining insight into the China’s military buildup.
2007 - The New Frontier hotel/casino in Las Vegas was imploded. The Hotel Last Frontier had opened in 1942, was renamed the New Frontier in 1955 and the name was shortened to the Frontier Hotel by its billionaire owner, Howard Hughes, in 1967.
2007 - Shimon Peres became the first Israeli president to address the legislature of a Muslim government when he spoke to Turkey’s Parliament in Ankara on this day.
2008 - Billy Elliot: The Musical opened at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. The show was based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot, with music by Elton John, and book and lyrics by Lee Hall, who wrote the film’s screenplay. The production closed Jan 8, 2012 after 1,312 performances. It won ten Tony Awards and ten Drama Desk Awards, including, in each case, Best Musical. The production received rave reviews: TIME called it a “triumph”; critic Liz Smith termed it “breathtakingly brilliant” and “absolutely, unequivocally awesome”; the Daily News said it was “so exhilarating that at times you feel like leaping.”
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: 2012, starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson and Chin Han; Dare, with Emmy Rossum, Ashley Springer, Ana Gasteyer, Alan Cumming, Tricia Mara and Zach Gilford; Love Hurts, starring Richard E. Grant, Carrie-Anne Moss, Janeane Garofalo, Jenna Elfman, Camryn Manheim, Caroline Aaron and Johnny Pacar; Oh My God, starring Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Starr, Sir Bob Geldof, Princess Michael of Kent, David Copperfield and Jack Thompson; Pirate Radio, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Chris O’Dowd and January Jones; The Fantastic Mr. Fox, starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and Jarvis Cocker; The Messenger, with Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone and Eamonn Walker; Uncertainty, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Nelson Landrieu and Olivia Thirlby; the documentary William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, with William Kunstler, Herman Badillo, Dennis Banks, Harry Belafonte, Clyde Bellecourt, Father Daniel Berrigan, Phil Donahue, Jimmy Breslin, Alan Dershowitz, Elizabeth Fink, Jean Fritz Karin Kunstler Goldman, Tom Hayden, Bruce Jackson, Gregory Joey Johnson, Ron Kuby, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Nancy Kurshan, Gerald Lefcourt, Rev. Vernon C. Mason, Bill Means, Michael Ratner, Paul Red, Yusef Salaam, Bobby Seale, Barry Slotnick, Michael Smith, Lynne Stewart, M. Wesley Swearingen, Madonna Thunderhawk and Len Weinglass; and Women in Trouble, with Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Connie Britton Marley Shelton, Cameron Richardson, Garcelle Beauvais, Caitlin Keats and Paul Cassell.
2009 - British adventurers Mick Dawson and Chris Martin completed a 189-day voyage. They had rowed a 23-foot boat across the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. They were the first team to row the Pacific Ocean from west to east.
2009 - Huge explosions and fire ripped through a naval munitions facility in the Ulyanovsk, Russia for hours, killing several people and forcing the evacuation of thousands of others nearby.
2010 - A fire in the petting zoo at the Karlsruhe Zoo in southwestern Germany killed 26 animals including Shetland ponies, goats, sheep and a llama. Dozens of firefighters fought against strong winds that threatened to spread the flames from wooden structures of the petting zoo to neighboring buildings.
2011 - Emirates Airlines kicked off the Dubai Airshow with a record $18-billion order for 50 Boeing 777s. The purchase gave Boeing a flying start on its European rival, Airbus.
2012 - France became the first Western country to formally recognize Syria’s opposition coalition as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
2012 - Motor Trend magazine chose the Tesla Model S, a full-sized electric four-door hatchback, to be the 2013 Car of the Year. It was the first time a non-gasoline powered vehicle had received the designation.
2013 - Hawaii’s Governor Neil Abercrombie signed a bill legalyzing same-sex marriage. The signing came on the day after the state Senate approved the bill by a 19-to-4 vote.
2013 - The Bank of England announced that Britain’s economic recovery had “taken hold,” as the bank upgraded its growth forecasts.
2014 - POTUS Barack Obama, in Myanmar for the East Asian summit, held his first formal meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dong. And the president met with democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi and other Myanmar lawmakers as he sought to turn around the Southeast Asian nation’s “backsliding” on political reforms.
2015 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: The 33, with Naomi Scott, Cote de Pablo and Kate del Castillo; By the Sea, starring Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Mélanie Laurent; Love the Coopers, with Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried and Marisa Tomei; Condemned, starring Michel Gill, Lydia Hearst and Johnny Messner; Entertainment, with Tye Sheridan, Michael Cera and Lotte Verbeek; Heist, starring Robert De Niro, Dave Bautista and Jeffrey Dean Morgan; the documentaries, Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words, Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans and Song of Lahore; James White, with Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon and Scott Mescudi; and My All-American, starring Finn Wittrock, Sarah Bolger and Robin Tunney.
2015 - U.S. presidential candidate Ben Carson recommended praying for rival Donald Trump after the real-estate mogul and TV personality likened him to a child molester.
2015 - Eight gunmen and bombers attacked a concert hall, a major stadium, and several restaurants and bars, in Paris, France. 130 people died in what President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack. Three coordinated terror teams were apparently involved.
2016 - Leon Russell, music producer, songwriter and performer, died in Nashville, Tennessee at 74 years of age. The Rock & Roll -- and Songwriter’s -- Hall-of-Famer played on pop, rock, blues, country, bluegrass, standards, gospel, and surf records. As a session musician, arranger, producer, singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, record company owner, bandleader, and touring musician, he collaborated with hundreds of artists, including Glen Campbell, Joe Cocker, Willie Nelson, Edgar Winter, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, J.J. Cale, David Gates, Bruce Hornsby, Hal Blaine, Tommy Tedesco, Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett, B.B. King, Freddie King, Bill Wyman, Steve Cropper, Carl Radle, Chuck Blackwell, Don Preston, Jesse Ed Davis, Rita Coolidge, Gram Parsons, Barbra Streisand, Ike & Tina Turner, Ricky Nelson, Herb Alpert, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Ann-Margret, Dean Martin, Marvin Gaye, Dave Mason, Steve Winwood, and groups such as Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, The Monkees, The Astronauts, The Accents, The Fencemen, The Ventures, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Jan & Dean, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, The Crystals, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Everly Brothers, The Righteous Brothers, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Tractors and many others. Elton John and Leon Russell recorded their album The Union in 2010, which earned them a Grammy nomination. On hearing of the death, John said, “My darling Leon Russell passed away last night. He was a mentor, inspiration & so kind to me. I loved him and always will.”
2017 - Puerto Rico asked the U.S. for $94.4 billion in aid as the island struggled to recover from Hurricane Maria. Much of the island was without power and thousands of U.S. citizens were still homeless -- almost two months after the storm.
2017 - U.S. regulators approved the first drug with a sensor that could track whether patients had taken their medicine. The Abilify pill was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2002 to treat schizophrenia, and the sensor technology was approved for marketing in 2012.
2018 - A big power company problem surfaced as several victims of the Camp Fire in Butte County, (northern) California filed suit against Pacific Gas and Electric and its parent company. The lawsuit alleged that PG&E was negligent in failing to maintain its infrastructure and properly inspect and manage its power lines.
2018 - In southern California the Woolsey Fire roared to life again. 435 buildings had been burned over 146 square miles and the fire was just 35 percent contained.
2018 - The independent, liberal Russian The New Times magazine, fined 22 million rubles the previous month for failing to notify authorities on time of receiving foreign funding, said it had raised over $370,000 in four days to pay the fine. Critics and media experts viewed the fine as retribution by the Russian government for The New Times’ critical reporting.
(Deluxe only) 2019 - The worst flooding in Venice, Italy in more than 50 years prompted calls to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels. This, as officials calculated hundreds of millions of euros in damage.
2019 - The United Nations refugee agency reported nations in Latin America and the Caribbean needed $1.35 billion to respond to a massive exodus of Venezuelans. An estimated 4.6 million Venezuelans had fled their crisis-torn country.
2020 - Movies scheduled to open this day (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) included: Freaky, starring Alan Ruck, Kathryn Newton and Vince Vaughn; Ammonite, with Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Jones; Chick Fight, starring Bella Thorne, Malin Akerman and Alec Baldwin; The Climb, with Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin and Gayle Rankin; and Dreamland, starring Margot Robbie, Travis Fimmel and Garrett Hedlund.
2020 - The 2020 presidential election’s final states were finished being counted, with President-elect Joe Biden winning Georgia, and President Trump winning North Carolina. The results brought Biden’s total Electoral College win to a margin of 306-232, the exact number Trump won by in 2016.
2020 - North Dakota became the 35th state to require face coverings be worn in public, as governors across the country grappled with a surge in coronavirus infections that threatened to swamp their healthcare systems. North Dakota had critically understaffed hospitals and the highest per capita rates for new coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S. Governor Doug Burgum put in place a mask mandate and new limits on indoor dining.
2021 - Boris Johnson’s Conservatives lost their lead in two opinion polls after a growing parliamentary standards scandal prompted almost two thirds of respondents -- in one survey -- to say the British prime minister’s party was disreputable.
2022 - A bomb exploded on a busy pedestrian street lined with shops and restaurants in Istanbul, killing eight people and wounding dozens of others. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the blast was a “treacherous attack” that “had the smell of terror.”
2022 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the 77-year-old Iranian refugee who lived for years inside Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the 2004 movie The Terminal, died of a heart attack. Nasseri fled political turmoil in Iran in the 1970s. He was stopped in the Paris airport in 1988 because he didn’t have proper identity papers. He was held in a transit zone for several days, then released into one of the airport terminals --- where he stayed for 18 years.
2022 - Four Idaho university students were stabbed and killed in their home in Moscow, Idaho. Suspect Bryan Kohberger was arrested seven weeks later. Ian Lamoureux, a forensic psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona, said initial evidence suggested the murders could have been a “thrill kill. It seems as though there is some speculation, given his (Kohberger’s) background in criminal studies, that this could be the motive—the thrill of outsmarting the authorities.”
2023 - Kenya held its first national tree planting holiday, with a goal of planting 100 million trees. It was part of a climate change initiative to plant 15 billion trees by 2032.
2023 - The Supreme Court announced a code of conduct -- for themselves -- in an attempt to address ethics concerns. The new code came after months of news stories alleging that conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito accepted lavish gifts and took part in other controversial off-the-bench activities. All nine judges signed the 14-page document but it was unclear who would enforce the code. Analysts said the new rules showed at least some recognition of the loss of public confidence in the justice’s practices.
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Birthdays on This Day November 13
1833 - Edwin Booth
actor: founded Players Club, New York; older brother of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln; died June 7, 18931850 - Robert Louis Stevenson
author: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses; died Dec 3, 18941856 - Louis Brandeis
jurist: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-1939]; died Oct 5, 19411913 - Alexander Scourby
actor: The Big Heat, Affair in Trinidad; died Feb 22, 19851917 - Robert Sterling
actor: Topper, Love That Jill, Ichabod and Me; made more than 70 appearances in films and on TV; died May 30, 20061920 - Jack Elam
actor: Support Your Local Sheriff, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cannonball Run series, Pocketful of Miracles, Rawhide, Temple Houston, The Texas Wheelers, The Dakotas; died Oct 20, 20031922 - Madeleine Sherwood
actress: The Flying Nun, Hurry Sundown, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broken Vows, Sweet Bird of Youth; died Apr 23, 20161922 - Oskar Werner
actor: Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Voyage of the Damned, Fahrenheit 451; died Oct 23, 19841923 - Linda Christian
actress: The Devil’s Hand, Athena; died Jul 22, 20111928 - Steve Bilko
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals 1B, Cubs, Reds, Dodgers, Tigers, Angels; died Mar 7, 19781932 - Richard Mulligan
Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1979-1980], Empty Nest [1988-1989]; S.O.B., The Hero, The Group, Little Big Man, Diana; died Sep 26, 20001934 - Peter Arnett
Pulitzer Prize-winning news reporter: National Geographic magazine, CNN, NBC1934 - Garry Marshall
producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days; director: Pretty Woman, Beaches; comedy writer: Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show; actor: A League of Their Own, Lost in America; brother of actress Penny Marshall; died Jul 19, 20161937 - Bertel Bruun
naturalist, international conservationist, neurologist, author: The Golden Field Guide to Birds of North America; died Sep 21, 20111938 - Jean Seberg
actress: Paint Your Wagon, The Mouse That Roared, Airport, Joan of Arc, Bonjour Tristesse; died Aug 30, 1979; more1939 - Wes Parker
baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966/Gold Glove 1967-1972]1941 - Dack Rambo
actor: Dallas, All My Children, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Sword of Justice, The New Loretta Young Show; died Mar 21, 19941941 - Mel Stottlemyre
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1964/all-star 1965, 1966, 1968-1970]; died Jan 13, 20191943 - Jay Sigel
golf champ: GTE West Classic [1994], Energizer Senior Tour Championship [1996], Bruno’s Memorial Classic [1997], Kroger Senior Classic [1997], Bell Atlantic Classic [1998], EMC Kaanapali Classic [1998], Farmers Charity Classic [2004], Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am [2003]1947 - Joe Mantegna
Tony Award-winning actor: Glengarry Glenn Ross [1984]; Criminal Minds, The Godfather: Part III, House of Games, Things Change, Airheads, Queen’s Logic, The Godfather Part III, Elvis: The Movie, The Money Pit, Three Amigos, Comedy Zone1948 - Sheila Frazier
actress: The Hitter, Three the Hard Way, I’m Gonna Git You Sucker, Super Fly, Firehouse, The Lazarus Syndrome1950 - Gilbert Perreault
Hockey Hall of Famer: [center]: Buffalo Sabres: 512 goals, 814 assists, won both Calder and Lady Byng Trophies1951 - Bill Gibson
musician [drums]: Huey Lewis and the News: Heart of Rock and Roll, Heart and Soul, Doin’ It [All for My Baby], Do You Believe in Love, Trouble in Paradise, Power of Love1952 - Carol Connors
actress [1971-1982]: X-rated films: Deep Throat, The Erotic Adventures of Candy, Candy Goes to Hollywood, Desire for Men, Experimental Marriage1953 - Frances Conroy
actress: How I Met Your Mother, Six Feet Under, American Horror Story, Happy Town, Desperate Housewives1953 - Tracy Scoggins
actress: Lois and Clark - The New Adventures of Superman, Hawaiian Heat, Dynasty, The Colbys , Alien Intruder, Dead On, The Gumshoe Kid1953 - Charlie Tickner
figure skater: Ice Capades, bronze medalist: Winter Olympics [1980]; U.S. Champion [1977, 1978, 1979, 1980]1954 - Chris Noth
actor: The Good Wife, The Good Wife, Law & Order, Burnzy’s Last Call, Jakarta, Baby Boom, Sex and the City, The Equalizer [2021]1955 - Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson)
Academy Award-winning actress: Ghost [1990]; The Color Purple, Sister Act series, Made in America, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Comic Relief, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi; Grammy Award-winning comedienne: Whoopi Goldberg [1985]; TV co-host: The View1956 - Rex Linn
actor: CSI: Miami, Night Game Northern Exposure, Raven, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Cliffhanger, The Round and Round, Zodiac, Abominable, The Garage, Better Call Saul, Young Sheldon1959 - Caroline Goodall
actress: Schindler’s List, Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story, Hook, Cliffhanger, The Princess Diaries1960 - Neil Flynn
actor: The Middle, Scrubs, That ’70s Show, Baby’s Day Out, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, My Boys, Seinfeld, Smallville, The Fugitive, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull1963 - Vinny Testaverde
football: QB: University of Miami [Heisman Trophy winner: 1986]; Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens1967 - Steve Christie
football [kicker]: William and Mary; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers, New York Giants1967 - Jimmy Kimmel
TV host: Jimmy Kimmel Live1967 - Steve Zahn
actor: Bye Bye Birdie, Sophistry, Reality Bites, Crimson Tide, That Thing You Do!, From the Earth to the Moon, You’ve Got Mail, Chain of Fools, Dr. Dolittle 2, Riding in Cars with Boys1968 - Mark Fitzpatrick
hockey [goalie]: New York Islanders, LA Kings, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Chicago Blackhawks, Carolina Hurricanes1969 - Gerard Butler
actor: 300, Tomorrow Never Dies, Attila, The Phantom of the Opera, P.S. I Love You, Nim’s Island, RocknRolla, The Ugly Truth, Gamer, Law Abiding Citizen, The Bounty Hunter, How to Train Your Dragon1970 - Vic Darensbourg
baseball [pitcher]: Florida Marlins, Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Detroit Tigers1973 - Jordan Bridges
actor: Rizzoli & Isles, Mona Lisa Smile, Conviction, A Good Funeral, Rushlights; nephew of Jeff Bridges, grandson of Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges1975 - Aaron Stecker
football [running back]: Western Illinois Univ; NFL: Chicago Bears [1999]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [1999–2003]: 2003 Super Bowl XXXVII; New Orleans Saints [2004–2008]; Atlanta Falcons [2009])1979 - Metta World Peace (Ronald William Artest Jr)
basketball: St. John's Univ; NBA: Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers: 2010 NBA champs1980 - Monique Coleman
actress, dancer, singer: High School Musical, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody1980 - François-Louis Tremblay
short track speed skater: five-time Olympic medal winner [2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter Olympics]1985 - Michael Bennett
football [defensive end]: Seattle Seahawks [2009]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2009–2012]; Seattle Seahawks [2013–2017]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs; Philadelphia Eagles [2018]; New England Patriots [2019]; Dallas Cowboys [2019])1989 - Candace B. Harris
actress: Bobbi Kristina, Gifted, The Single Life, Valor, Delilah1991 - Devon Bostick
actor: Adoration, Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series, The 100, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Being Erica, Citizen Duane, Assassin’s Creed: Lineage, Aim High, Dead Before Dawn, A Dark Truth, The Art of the Steal2000 - 24kGoldn
rapper: Valentino, City of Angels, Mood, LP: El Dorado2002 - Emma Raducanu
tennis champ: former British #1; first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade in 1977
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Hit Music on This Day November 13
1945Till the End of Time (facts) - Perry Como
I’ll Buy That Dream (facts) - The Pied Pipers
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