13th November: Today In History

Today is Friday, November 13th, the 317 day of 2015. There are 48 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History;


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.