On This Day: November 13, 2018
Birthdays:| 1825 | Charles Worth, Fashion designer, and first to use female models | | 1850 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Author of 'Treasure Island' & 'Kidnapped' | | 1906 | John Sparrow, Poet, lawyer and broadcaster | | 1912 | Eugene Ionesco, Romanian born French Playwright | | 1931 | Joan Lestor, Labour politician | | 1949 | Whoopi Goldberg, 'Oscar' winning actress |
Events:| 1687 | Nell Gwyn, actress and mistress of Charles II, died aged 37 | | 1914 | The 'Bra' was patented by Mary Phelps an American heiress | | 1916 | The Battle of the Somme ended, with a cost of 60,000 Allied lives | | 1940 | Walt Disney's cartoon film, 'Fantasia', opened in New York | | 1964 | Pope Paul VI donated his jewelled tiara, to the poor of the world | | 1973 | Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. died in a road crash aged 19. He was the second son of the 'Rock and Roll' star to die | | 1989 | Dense fog in central and southern England caused chaos; five people were killed | | 1995 | A Nigerian Airways Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kaduna killing eight persons. |
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