Today in history, Nov 13th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 13th!

1474	In the Swiss-Burgundian Wars, Swiss infantry shatters the army of Charles the Bold at Hericourt near Belfort, countering his march to Lorraine.
1775	U.S. forces captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
1835	Texans officially proclaim independence from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845.
1851	The London-to-Paris telegraph begins operation.
1856	Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was born in Louisville, Ky.
1860	South Carolina’s legislature calls a special convention to discuss secession from the Union.
1862	Lewis Carroll writes in his diary, “Began writing the fairy-tale of Alice–I hope to finish it by Christmas.”
1878	New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace offers amnesty to many participants of the Lincoln County War, but not to gunfighter Billy the Kid.
1897	The first metal dirigible is flown from Tempelhof Field in Berlin.
1907	Paul Corno achieves the first helicopter flight.
1914	The brassiere, invented by Caresse Crosby, is patented.
1927	The Holland Tunnel linking New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River opened to the public.
1940	U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that African Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods.
1941	A German U-boat, the U-81 torpedoes Great Britain’s premier aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal. The ship sinks the next day.
1942	Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower flies to Algeria to conclude an agreement with French Admiral Jean Darlan..
1945	Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France.
1952	Harvard’s Paul Zoll becomes the first man to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest.
1956	The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously strikes down two Alabama laws requiring racial segregation on public buses.
1974	Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., was killed in a car crash.
1979	Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
1982	The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1985	A mudslide triggered by the Nevado del Ruiz volcano buried the city of Armero, Colombia, killing some 23,000 people.
1998	President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit.
2002	Saddam Hussein’s government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq.
2003	Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove a granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel.
2009	Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans to try professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others detained at Guantanamo Bay in civilian court in New York City. (The Obama administration later backed off the plan.)

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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