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Today in History: November 13
1474
In the Swiss-Burgundian Wars, Swiss infantry shatters the army of Charles the Bold at Hericourt near Belfort, countering his march to Lorraine.

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.

Today in History: Born on November 13
0354
Saint Augustine, Christian theologian and philosopher.

1955
Whoopi Goldberg, one of many entertainers to have no brain.


Joke of the day
A teenage girl was being intimate with her boyfriend

At her parents house. Her father after being woken by the noises goes upstairs to check it out, and walks in on them.

"Dad!" she exclaimed in a panic "...I'm sorry"

The dad being a dad replies "hi sorry, I'm Dad!"

He then turns to the boyfriend and asks "Are you fricking sorry?"