Monday, November 13, 2023

History for November 13

History for November 13 - On-This-Day.com 
Louis Brandeis 1856 - - Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939
  • 1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.
  • 1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
  • 1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter."
  • 1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
  • 1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.

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