December 13
Today in America's Present Past
1636 | Indian Wars: The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians.
1769 | Dartmouth College was founded.
1774 | War of Independence: Paul Revere and Wentworth Cheswell ride to warn Portsmouth of the approach of British warships.
1818 | First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was born.
1861 | Civil War: Battle of Alleghany Summit, West Virginia
1873 | SCOTUS: Justice Samuel Nelson died.
1887 | WWI hero Alvin York was born.
1894 | Abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond died.
1911 | Poet Kenneth Patchen was born.
1920 | Economist and diplomat George P. Shultz was born.
1922 | Activist José Sarria was born.
1922 | Artist Arthur Wesley Dow died.
1924 | Activist Samuel Gompers died.
1925 | Entertainer Dick Van Dyke was born.
1927 | Poet James Wright was born.
1945 | Entrepreneur and activist Herman Cain was born.
1953 | Economist Ben Bernanke was born.
1957 | Actor Steve Buscemi was born.
1961 | Painter Granda Moses died.
1967 | Actor Jamie Foxx was born.
1969 | Admiral Raymond A Spruance died.
1989 | Film: “Driving Miss Daisy” debuted.
1989 | Entertainer Taylor Swift was born.
1992 | Entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney died.
2003 | War on Terror: U.S. forces capture Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
2018 | Journalist and hostage Alann Steen died.