GMT 11-13-2018

Today in History November 13

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.

1914 The brassiere, invented by Caresse Crosby, is patented.

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.

1970 A powerful tropical cyclone strikes the Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), causing an estimated half-million deaths in a single night; the Bhola cyclone is regarded as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century.

1982The Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC.

1985 Some 23,000 people die when the Nevado del Ruiz erupts, melting a glacier and causing a massive mudslide that buries Armero, Columbia.


Born on November 13

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist and poet (Treasure Island, Kidnapped).



JOTD
What’s the best thing about Switzerland?
I don’t know, but the flag is a big plus.