Daily Calendar for Wednesday, November 13, 2013

David Kirke granted co-proprietorship of Newfoundland– 1637
U.S. General Montgomery captured Montreal– 1775
Thousands of meteors fell per hour in the eastern United States– 1833
The Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey opened– 1927
Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres– 1934
Walt Disney’s Fantasia premiered at the Broadway Theater in New York; first film to attempt to use stereophonic sound– 1940
Sammy Davis Jr. married May Britt– 1960
Bob Pettit was the first to reach 20,000 career points in the NBA– 1964
Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mars)– 1971
Li’l Abner, Al Capp’s 43-year-old comic strip, appeared in newspapers for the last time– 1977
The Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated, Washington, D.C.– 1982
Volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts in Colombia, killing over 23,000 people.– 1985
Groundbreaking ceremony held for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.– 2006

The first great storm of what became the Dust Bowl spread a pall from the Great Plains to New York– 1933