IT HAPPENED TODAY

NOVEMBER 13

1312: England Edward from III 1327, (above), was born. King Of

1460: Prince Henry Of Portugal, Henry The Navigator, died aged 66.

1805: Johann Georg Lehner invented the hot dog.

1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, was born in Edinburgh.

1851: A telegraphic service between London and Paris was launched.

1941: HMS Ark Royal was torpedoed by a German U-boat — she sank the next day.

1947: Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, resigned after admitting he had disclosed tax proposals to a reporter minutes before he presented the Budget.

1954: Great Britain won the first Rugby League World Cup, defeating France 16-12 in Paris.

1969: Anti-war protesters in Washington DC staged a symbolic ‘March Against Death’.

1970: A 120mph tropical cyclone hit the densely populated Ganges Delta region of east Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.

1990: Tim Berners-Lee (above) wrote the first web page on a NeXT workstation.

1994: Voters in Sweden decided to join the European Union in a referendum.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: French President Francois Hollande joined survivors and victims’ families at a commemoration at the Bataclan concert hall to mark one year since the Paris terrorist attacks.

BIRTHDAYS: George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, former Archbishop of Canterbury, 82; Howard Wilkinson, former football manager, 74; Joe Mantegna, actor, 70; Chris Noth, actor, 63; Whoopi Goldberg, actress, 62; Steve Zahn, actor, 50; Kelly Sotherton (below), former heptathlete, 41; Dana Vollmer, American former swimmer, 30.