History for September 13

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Walter Reed 1851, Milton S. Hershey 1857, John Pershing 1860


J.B. Priestley 1894, Richard Kiel 1939, Jacqueline Bisset 1944


1759 - The French were defeated by the British on the Plains of Abraham in the final French and Indian War.


1789 - The United States Government took out its first loan.

1898 - Hannibal Williston Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film, which is used to make movies.


1922 - In El Azizia, Libya, the highest shade temperature was recorded at 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.


1948 - Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the U.S. Senate and became the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress.


1960 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission banned payola.


1971 - In New York, National Guardsmen stormed the Attica Correctional Facility and put an end to the four-day revolt. A total of 43 people were killed in the final assault. A committee was organized to investigate the riot on September 30, 1971.


1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a $30 billion crime bill into law.