November 13 - What happened on the day I was born?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for November 13
In the headlines today:

1999	Lennox Lewis wins a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield to become the world heavyweight boxing champion.
1995	A bomb kills seven people, including five Americans, at a military facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
1985	A huge mudslide buries the city of Armero, Colombia, killing 23,000 people.
1982	The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
1977	The Al Capp comic strip, Li'l Abner, appears in newspapers for the last time.
1974	Karen Silkwood, a worker who had complained of unsafe working conditions at the Cimarron plutonium plant in Oklahoma, dies in a mysterious automobile accident.
1968	The animated feature Yellow Submarine, starring the voices and music of Beatles, premieres.
1956	Racial segregation on public buses is ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
1945	Ethiopia and Panama join the United Nations.
1942	The US government lowers the minimum military draft age from 21 to 18.
1940	Walt Disney's animated masterpiece, Fantasia, premieres in New York City.
1927	The Holland Tunnel, linking New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey, opens to traffic after seven years of construction.
1775	US troops capture Montreal, during the American Revolution.