November 1913 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1913 Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, first to use forward pass effectively.
• 02 Nov 1913 St. Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
• 03 Nov 1913 The United States introduces an income tax.
• 06 Nov 1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
• 07 Nov 1913 11 ampndash The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.
• 09 Nov 1913 The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
• 13 Nov 1913 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
• 18 Nov 1913 Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego).
• 26 Nov 1913 Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
• 29 Nov 1913 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2

Famous Birthday

• Vivien Leigh

  British actress born in India who became the first actress from England to receive the Oscar award for Best Actress, 1939.

• Albert Camus

  French writer, an essayist, novelist and dramatist.

• Burt Lancaster

  Actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80.

• Benjamin Britten

  British foremost composer who helped revive interest in opera through his "Peter Grimes," 1945 and other works, including compositions for...

• Marika Rökk

  Hungarian/German dancer, stage/film/TV actress.

• Micol Fontana

  Italian fashion designer and business executive; owner in partnership with her two sisters, Giovanna and Zoë, of house of Haute Couture,...

• Judy Canova

  American actress and singer (d. 1983).

• Gig Young

  American actor, handsome and personable with a manner of whimsical humor that lent itself well to romantic comedy on film, stage and TV.

• Álvaro Cunhal
• Lou Ambers
• Albert Cossery
• Charles Bettelheim
• James Broughton

  American journalist in New York, film maker in London and writer in Paris; Broughton was world traveled.

• Kurt Ian Tjader
• Maurice Grimaud

  French Prefect of Police, or police chief, of the city of Paris during the May 1968 general strikes and student uprisings.

• Gaston Bonheur

  Belvianes Journalist.

• Howard Duff

  American actor, onscreen from 1947, working steadily for 50 years but never quite breaking through to stardom.

• Jacques Jansen
• Aleksander Bardini
• Bertrand d'Astorg
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Famous Deaths

• Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Alfred R Wallace

  British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?).

• Robert S Ball

  Irish Mathematician / astronomer (Ball Screw).

• Alfred Russel Wallace

  British naturalist and biologist (Born 1823).

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Burr - Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
2. Victor Light Opera Co. - Gems from Sweethearts
3. Charles Harrison - Peg O' My Heart
4. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell - Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay
5. Enrico Caruso - Elegie - Melodie