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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.

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.

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

1927 New York's Holland Tunnel officially opens for traffic.

1940 U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that African Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods.

1952 Harvard's Paul Zoll becomes the first man to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest.

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.

1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC.

1985Some 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 religion is your bra??

A man walked into then ladies department and shyly walked up to the woman behind the counter and said, “I'd like to buy a bra for my wife.”
'”What type of bra?”, asked the clerk. “Type?”, inquires the man, “There's more than one type?”
“Look around”, said the saleslady, as she showed a sea of bras in every shape, size, color and material imaginable. “Actually, even with all of this variety, there are really only four types of bras to choose from.”
Relieved, the man asked about the types.
The saleslady replied: “There are the Catholic, Salvation Army, Presbyterian, and the Baptist types. Which one would you prefer?”
Now totally befuddled, the man asked about the differences between them.
The Saleslady responded, 'It is all really quite simple.'
The Catholic type supports the masses.
The Salvation Army type lifts the fallen.
The Presbyterian type keeps them staunch and upright.
The Baptist type makes mountains out of molehills.