Today in History for 13th November 2021:
Historical Events
1002 – English king Ethelred II (the ‘Unready’) launches ‘St Brice’s Day’ massacre of Danish settlers
1839 – 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1875 – Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1960 – Fire in movie theater kills 152 children in Amude, Spain
1984 – Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award
2007 – An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six
Famous Birthdays
1792 – Edward John Trelawny, English traveler and author (Adv of Younger Son), born in London (d. 1881)
1854 – George Whitfield Chadwick, American composer (Judi Van Winke), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1931)
1894 – Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], American stage and silent film actress (Blood and Sand; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), born in New York City (d. 1961)
1938 – Jean Seberg, American actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon), born in Marshaltown, Iowa (d. 1979)
1947 – Joe Mantegna, American actor (House of Games, Weeds), born in Chicago, Illinois
1963 – Thilo Timothy Newman, writer (Freejack, Alien), born in Hamburg, Germany
Famous Deaths
1606 – Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
1841 – Caroline of Baden, Queen of Bavaria, dies at 65
1909 – Aeneas Mackay, Dutch Internal minister (ARP)/Colonization, dies at 70
1994 – Joseph H. Hazen, US Lawyer/producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
1998 – Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)
2004 – Thomas Foglietta, American politician (b. 1928)