Daily Calendar for Thursday, November 13, 2025

David Kirke granted co-proprietorship of Newfoundland – 1637
U.S. General Montgomery captured Montreal – 1775
Thousands of meteors fell per hour in the eastern United States – 1833
The Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey opened – 1927
Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres – 1934
Walt Disney’s Fantasia premiered at the Broadway Theater in New York; first film to attempt to use stereophonic sound – 1940
Sammy Davis Jr. married May Britt – 1960
Bob Pettit was the first to reach 20,000 career points in the NBA – 1964
Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mars) – 1971
Li’l Abner, Al Capp’s 43-year-old comic strip, appeared in newspapers for the last time – 1977
The Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated, Washington, D.C. – 1982
Volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts in Colombia, killing over 23,000 people. – 1985
Groundbreaking ceremony held for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. – 2006

The first great storm of what became the Dust Bowl spread a pall from the Great Plains to New York – 1933