On this day ...

NOVEMBER 13

1312: Edward III, King Of England, was born.

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 began.

1941: HMS Ark Royal was torpedoed by German U-boat.

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.

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

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

1994: Voters in Sweden decided to join the EU.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A 7.3 magnitude earthquake near the Iraq-Iran border killed more than 400 people. BIRTHDAYS: George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, 83; Howard Wilkinson, former football manager, 75; Joe Mantegna, actor, 71; Chris Noth, actor, 64; Whoopi Goldberg, above, actress, 63; Steve Zahn, actor, 51; Kelly Sotherton, former heptathlete, 42.