November 13 birthdays & history

Famous people born on November 13

• 1850Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist
• 1955Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host
• 1953Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former President of Mexico
• 1934Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer
• 1969Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
• 1969Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-American activist and author
• 1967Steve Zahn, American actor and singer
• 1999Lando Norris, British-Belgian race car driver
• 1893Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1967Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, and talk show host

What happened on November 13

• 1841James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
• 1851The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
• 1922The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.
• 1927The Holland Tunnel opened, connecting Manhattan with Jersey City under the Hudson River.
• 1940Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
• 1945FC Dynamo Moscow opened their exhibition tour of the United Kingdom with a 3–3 draw against Chelsea, breaking the attendance record for a British club football match.
• 1967The first of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland.
• 1985Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
• 1992In Dietrich v The Queen, the High Court of Australia ruled that, although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay in most circumstances in which an accused is unrepresented.
• 1994In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
• 1995Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
• 1996As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project, Joel Armengaud discovers the project's first Mersenne prime number, 21398269−1, a number with 420,921 digits.

Also observed on November 13

• Sadie Hawkins Day (United States)
• World Kindness Day