October 13
Today in America's Present Past
1754 | Revolutionary War hero and soldier Mary Hays was born.
1769 | America’s first licensed dentist, Horace H. Hayden, was born.
1775 | Congress: Created the U.S. Navy.
1792 | “Old Farmer’s Almanac” was first published.
1792 | POTUS: The cornerstone was laid for the Executive Mansion (White House).
1795 | Revolutionary War hero William Prescott died.
1812 | War of 1812: Battle of Queenstown Heights.
1843 | Civil Rights: In NYC, B’nai B’rith was founded.
1852 | Explorer John Lloyd Stephens died.
1864 | Civil War: Battle at Darbytown Road, Virginia.
1870 | Author Albert Jay Nock was born.
1884 | International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., establishes the Greenwich time meridian longitude.
1885 | Georgia Institute of Technology was founded.
1890 | SCOTUS: Justice Samuel Miller died.
1890 | Author Conrad Richter was born.
1890 | The Delta Chi fraternity was founded.
1901 | Lawyer and judge Edith Sampson was born.
1902 | Poet Arna Bontemps was born.
1914 | Entrepreneur Garret Morgan patented the gas mask.
1925 | Comedian Lenny Bruce was born.
1936 | Politician Elizabeth Furse was born.
1941 | Musician Paul Simon was born.
1944 | WWII: The Battle of Aachen, Germany.
1945 | Entrepreneur Milton S. Hershey died.
1942 | Entrepreneur Jerry Jones was born.
1953 | Jockey Pat Day was born.
1959 | Entertainer Marie Osmond was born.
1962 | Football Pro Jerry Rice was born.
1971 | Actor Sacha Baron Cohen was born.
1974 | Journalist Ed Sullivan died.
1987 | Physicist Walter Houser Brattain died.
1989 | Politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born.
2016 | Entertainer Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
2016 | Author John Gilmore died.
2002 | Historian Stephen E. Ambrose died.
2022 | General James “Jim” McDivitt died.
2024 | SpaceX completes the first recovery of a rocket as its Starship rocket booster is caught by a giant pair of mechanical arms.