November 13, 2023
QUOTE
Learn to work with people you wouldn’t go to lunch with.
--Garry Marshall
BIRTHDAYS
1881 – Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman
1911 – Buck O’Neil, Baseball player and manager
1932 – Richard Mulligan, Actor
1934 – Garry Marshall, Actor, director, and producer
1967 – Steve Zahn, Actor and singer
IN MEMORY
1883 – J. Marion Sims, Physician and gynecologist
1983 – Junior Samples, Comedian and actor
1993 – Rufus R. Jones, Wrestler
2016 – Leon Russell, Singer-songwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1922 – The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.