Today In History
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2018. There are 48 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
ON THIS DATE
› 1789: Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
› 1956: The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
› 1969: Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
› 1982: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
› 1985: Some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.
› 1994: Sweden voted in a nonbinding referendum to join the European Union, which it did the following year.
› 2001: President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the White House, where they pledged to slash Cold War-era nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.
› 2015: Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated attacks in Paris on the national stadium, restaurants and streets, and a crowded concert hall, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War II.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Journalist-author Peter Arnett is 84. Actor Jimmy Hawkins is 77. Country singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard is 72. Actor Joe Mantegna is
71. Actress Sheila Frazier is 70. Musician Andrew Ranken (The Pogues) is
65. Actress Tracy Scoggins is 65. Actor Chris Noth is 64. Actress-comedian Whoopi Goldberg is
63. Actor Rex Linn is 62. Actress Caroline Goodall is 59. Actor Neil Flynn is
58. Rock musician Walter Kibby (Fishbone) is 54. Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is 51. Actor Steve Zahn is 51. Actor Gerard Butler is
49. Writer-activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali is 49. Actor Jordan Bridges is 45. Actress Aisha Hinds is 43. Former NBA All-Star Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest) is 39. Actress Monique Coleman is 38. Actor Rahul Kohli is 33. Actor Devon Bostick is 27.