Daily Calendar for Sunday, October 13, 2024
Born
- Mary McCauley (Molly Pitcher) –
- Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (politician) –
- Art Tatum (jazz pianist) –
- Herbert Lawrence Block (editorial cartoonist) –
- Cornel Wilde (actor) –
- Lenny Bruce (comedian) –
- Margaret Thatcher (former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) –
- Paul Simon (musician) –
- Sammy Hagar (musician) –
- Lacy J. Dalton (singer) –
- Marie Osmond (singer) –
- Nancy Kerrigan (figure skater) –
- Ashanti (singer) –
Died
- Milton Hershey (American manufacturer and philanthropist) –
- Ed Sullivan (television personality) –
- Stephen Ambrose (historian) –
Events
- Cornerstone of the White House was laid –
- The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith was founded –
- Several countries adopted the Greenwich longitude as the prime meridian –
- Boston Americans (now Red Sox) won first World Series –
- The Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series –
- William Golding’s novel, The Lord of the Flies, was published in New York –
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened on Broadway –
- Expo 86 ended in Vancouver, British Columbia –
- The United States Navy Memorial was dedicated, Washington, D.C. –
- Stock market dropped 190.58 points in what was called the Friday the 13th mini-crash –
- A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck central Oklahoma –
- Thirty-three miners trapped underground for more than 2 months were rescued, Copiapo, Chile –
- Actor William Shatner became the oldest person, at age 90, to travel to space –
Weather
- A snowstorm hit New York City –
- Project Cirrus: 80 lbs. dry ice released onto hurricane –
- Up to 2 feet of snow blanketed Buffalo, New York, and surrounding areas –
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