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Old 11-13-2016, 10:15 AM   #404
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November 13

Today is World Kindness Day. So, kindly piss off. Please/Thank You.

There are 48 days remaining in 2016.

There are 41 days until Christmas.

Events

1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

1553 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen "Bloody" Mary I.

1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay and founding what would become Seattle, Washington.

1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.

1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.

1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.

1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.

1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.

1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.

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.

1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.

2015 – A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th and 11th arrondissements kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.

2015 – WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.

Births

1814 – Joseph Hooker; 1833 – Edwin Booth (John Wilkes Booth's big bro); 1838 – Joseph F. Smith; 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson; 1856 – Louis Brandeis (associate justice of SCOTUS); 1899 – Iskander Mirza (1st president of Pakistan); 1913 – Lon Nol; 1920 – Jack Elam; 1922 – Oskar Werner (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Fahrenheit 451); 1929 – Fred Phelps (founded the Westboro Baptist Cocksmokers); 1932 – Richard Mulligan (Soap, Empty Nest); 1934 – Garry Marshall; 1938 – Jean Seberg (Paint Your Wagon); 1941 – David Green (founded Hobby Lobby); 1941 – Dack Rambo; 1946 – Ray Wylie Hubbard; 1947 – Toy Caldwell(The Marshall Tucker Band); 1947 – Joe Mantegna (Glengarry Glen Ross, Criminal Minds); 1949 – Terry Reid♪ ♫; 1954 – Chris Noth (Law & Order, Sex and the City); 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg; 1960 – Neil Flynn (Scrubs, The Middle); 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel; 1967 – Steve Zahn; 1969 – Gerard Butler (300, Gamer, Olympus Has Fallen)

Deaths

1969 – Iskander Mirza (1st president of Pakistan); 1974 – Karen Silkwood (subject of the movie Silkwood); 1983 – Junior Samples (Hee Haw); 2004 – Ol' Dirty Bastard♪ ♫; 2014 – Mike Burney♪ ♫(Wizzard)
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