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What happened in history on this day: December 13?
On December 13 in ...
- 1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1861 - Battle of Alleghany Summit, West Virginia.
- 1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, CSA (Marye's Heights); CSA beats USA.
- 1864 - Former Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase is sworn in as chief justice of the US.
- 1864 - Battle of Fort McAllister, Georgia.
- 1870 - The first national bank charter is granted in New Mexico Territory, to land owner Lucien Maxwell, for the First National Bank of Sante Fe.
- 1879 - First federal fish hatching steamer launched (Wilmington, Delaware).
- 1903 - Wright Brothers make first flight at Kittyhawk.
- 1918 - US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany.
- 1918 - Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to make a foreign visit as President (France).
- 1933 - Treasury Secretary William Woodin resigns.
- 1941 - Bulgaria declares war on Great Britain and the United States.
- 1941 - Hungary declares war on Great Britain and the United States.
- 1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.
- 1962 - Relay 1 communication satellite launched.
- 1964 - In El Paso, Texas, US President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-México border.
- 1966 - First US bombing of Hanoi, Vietnam.
- 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1976 - Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur, California.
- 1976 - Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco, 13 hours 14 minutes).
- 1977 - Entire University of Evansville basketball team (14 players) die in plane crash.
- 1978 - The first Susan B. Anthony dollar coin enters circulation in the USA.
- 1988 - Three men end 29-hour all-466-station subway ride in New York City, New York.
- 1991 - New York assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud.
- 1993 - A U-2 spyplane crashes on a local training flight at Beale Air Force Base in California; US Air Force pilot Captain Richard Schneider is killed.
- 1994 - American Eagle commuter plane crashes in North Carolina, killing 15.
- 1995 - US Federal Court rules that cable companies must carry local stations.
- 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.
- 2000 - US Vice President Al Gore concedes defeat to Texas Governor George W. Bush in the presidential election.
- 2000 - The Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas, and start a crime spree.
- 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 2007 - Former US Senator George J. Mitchell publicly releases a report accusing 88 retired and active Major League Baseball players of anabolic steroid use.
- 2020 - After taking off from Mojave Air and Space Port, New Mexico, USA, VMS Eve carrier aircraft launches VSS Unity rocket plane, which then flies into space and back.
Births on December 13
- 1818 - Birth of Mary Todd in Lexington, Kentucky, USA; spouse of President Abraham Lincoln.
- 1871 - Birth of Russell W Porter in Vermont, USA; explorer (Alaska).
- 1890 - Birth of Marc Connelly in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA; playwright (One Minute Please).
- 1897 - Birth of Drew Pearson in Evanston, Illinois, USA; newscaster (Drew Pearson).
- 1900 - Birth of Norman Foster in Richmond, Indiana, USA; actor (Skyscraper Souls).
- 1910 - Birth of Van Heflin in Walters, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary).
- 1913 - Birth of Jimmy Carroll in New York City, New York, USA; pianist ("Most Important People").
- 1914 - Birth of Samuel "Larry" K Parks in Olathe, Kansas, USA; actor (Jolson - Jolson Story).
- 1915 - Birth of Mark Stevens in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor (Big Town, Martin Kane).
- 1915 - Birth of Kenneth Miller AKA Ross MacDonald in Los Gatos, California, USA; detective novelist (Goodbye Look).
- 1917 - Birth of Dave Street in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor/singer (Broadway Open House).
- 1920 - Birth of Don Taylor in Freeport, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Father's Little Dividend).
- 1922 - Birth of Rex Allen in Wilcox, Arizona, USA; cowboy actor (I Dream of Jeannie).
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Prosky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Christine, Sergeant Jablonski - Hill Street Blues).
- 1938 - Birth of Tom Shaw in Wichita, Kansas, USA; PGA golfer (1969 Doral Open AVCO Golf Classic).
- 1940 - Birth of Steve Harmon in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Ens Pulver - Mr Roberts).
- 1941 - Birth of John Davidson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; TV host (Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible).
- 1948 - Birth of Kathy Garver in Long Beach, California, USA; actress (Cissy - Family Affair).
- 1948 - Birth of Ted Nugent in Detroit, Michigan, USA; guitarist ("Cat Scratch Fever", "Damn Yankees").
- 1949 - Birth of Randy Owen in Fort Payne, Alabama, USA; country music star (Alabama - "Mountain Music").
- 1949 - Birth of Tom Verlaine [Miller] in Mount Morris, New Jersey, USA; rock vocalist (Television).
- 1950 - Birth of Heather North in Pasadena, California, USA; actress (The Barefoot Executive).
- 1953 - Birth of Tom Sanders in Jackson, Wyoming, USA; aerial cameraman (Living Daylights).
- 1954 - Birth of John Anderson in Apopka, Florida, USA; country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade).
- 1956 - Birth of Phillip Gregory Hubbard in Canton, Ohio, USA; basketball (Olympics-gold-1976).
- 1958 - Birth of Clark Brandon in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Fast Food).
- 1958 - Birth of Dana Strum in Washington DC; rock bassist (Slaughter - "Stick it Live").
- 1958 - Birth of Lynn-Holly Johnson in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Ice Castles).
- 1959 - Birth of John Whitaker in Van Nuys, California, USA; actor (Family Affair, Snowball Express).
- 1960 - Birth of Randy Stoklos in Pacific Palisades, California, USA; beach volleyball player (Olympics-1996).
- 1962 - Birth of Karen Witter in California, USA; actress (Tina - One Life to Live).
- 1965 - Birth of Stacy Sunny in San Bernadino, California, USA; female infielder (Colorado Silver Bullets).
- 1967 - Birth of Chris O'Loughlin in Los Angeles, California, USA; fencer (Olympics-1996).
- 1967 - Birth of Jenn Thompson in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Dee - Harper Valley PTA).
- 1967 - Birth of Mike Mordecai in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; infielder (Atlanta Braves).
- 1968 - Birth of Shaun Stafford in Ocala, Florida, USA; tennis star (1992 Taipei).
- 1970 - Birth of Elizabeth Patricia Reilly in North Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Miss America-Rhode Island (1996).
- 1970 - Birth of George Van Os Junior in Houston, Texas, USA; team handball left back (Olympics-1996).
- 1970 - Birth of Tonja Yevette Buford-Bailey in Dayton, Ohio, USA; 400 metre hurdler (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1972 - Birth of GiGi Gordon Butler in Pennsylvania, USA; Miss America-Pennsylvania (1997).
- 1973 - Birth of Christie Clark in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Carrie Brady - Days of Our Lives).
- 1975 - Birth of Matt LeCroy in Anderson, South Carolina; baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1979 - Birth of Christina Todd; Miss Ohio Teen USA (Miss Congeniality-1997).
- 1981 - Birth of Amy Lee; American pianist/singer/songwriter (Evanescence).
Deaths on December 13
- 1862 - Conrad Feger Jackson, USA Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 49.
- 1862 - Maxcy Gregg, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 48.
- 1862 - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 39.
- 1924 - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at age 74.
- 1961 - Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at age 101.
- 1969 - Raymond A Spruance, US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at age 83.
- 1979 - Jon Hall, American actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at age 66 (born 1915).
- 1994 - Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US librarian/Yale-curator, dies at age 83.
- 2003 - Death of William Roth, U.S. Senator from Delaware (born 1921).
- 2005 - Death of Stanley Williams, American gang founder (executed) (born 1953).
- 2009 - Death of Paul Samuelson, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915).
- 2015 - Death of Benedict Anderson, American academic (born 1936).
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