TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.

1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the “frankfurter.”

1862 - Lewis Carroll begins writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

1970 - Half a million people are killed as a devastating cyclone hits East Pakistan.

1984 - A libel suit against Time, Inc. by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon went to trial in New York.

1985 - 23,000 are killed after a volcanic eruption in Colombia.

1994 - Sweden voted to join the European Union.

1997 - Iraq expelled six UN. arms inspectors who were US citizens.

2003 - Queensland adopts maroon as its official state colour.

Birthdays

Edwin Booth 1833 - Actor, brother of John Wilkes Booth

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - Author, best known for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Alexander Scourby 1913Actor

Nathaniel Benchley 1915Author

Jack Elam 1920- Actor Oskar Werner 1922- Actor Joonas Kokkonen 1921 Composer

Madeleine Sherwood 1922 Actress

Linda Christian 1924 Actress

Richard Mulligan 1932 Actor

Garry Marshall 1934 Producer, director

Jean Seberg 1938 - Actress Dack Rambo (Norman Jay Rambeau) 1941 - Actor

Ray Wylie Hubbard 1946 Country singer

Joe Mantegna 1947 - Actor Frances Conroy 1953 Actress

Whoopi Goldberg 1955 Actress

Chris Noth 1957 - Actor Tracy Scoggins 1959 Actress