Tageskalender vom 13 November

Es passierte an einem 13 November

1970 : A tidal-wave ravaged Bangladesh On November 13, 1970, a tidal wave caused by Bhola cyclone, with winds to 150km/h, devastated the delta of the Gange in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 500,000 people were killed in an instant. A million livestock were killed and rice fields were devastated. The population had not received any warning. The slow response of the central government to the disaster led, a year later, to the secession of East Pakistan as an independent state, Bangladesh.
1982 : Dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial On November 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a monument to American soldiers who died during the Vietnam War, was dedicated. The memorial is a black granite wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939 soldiers killed during the conflict. It was designed by Maya Lin, then a student in architecture at Yale University. Today it is visited annually by 3 million people.
1985 : Eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia On November 13, 1985, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted and melted the glacier located at its top. Lahars, mudflows of water, ice and rocks, were formed and run down the valleys surrounding the volcano. The town of Armero was destroyed. 23,000 people were killed. While the disaster had been predicted by scientists, poor administrative and communications prevented the evacuation of the population.
1990 : Aramoana Massacre On November 13, 1990, after an argument with a neighbor, a man took a gun and sot him, then killed his family and many others in the small town of Aramoana, New Zealand. 13 people were killed. The gunman was killed by the police.

Zitat des Tages : 13 November

Whoopi Goldberg
I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

Geburtstage : 13 November

Jiaqing, Emperor of China (1760)
Edwin Booth, American actor (1833)
Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (1850)
William Bradford Huie, American journalist (1910)
Helen Mack, American actress (1913)
Robert Sterling, American actor (1917)
Garry Marshall, American director, actor and screenwriter (1934)
Jean Seberg, American actress (1938)
Joe Mantegna, American actor, director and producer (1947)
Chris Noth, American actor (1954)
Whoopi Goldberg, American actress (1955)
Stephen Baxter, English writer (1957)
Juhi Chawla, Indian actress (1967)
Steve Zahn, American actor (1967)
Gerard Butler, American actor (1969)
Quim, Portuguese footballer (1975)
Monique Coleman, American actress (1980)
François-Louis Tremblay, Canadian speed skater (1980)
Dana Vollmer, American swimmer (1987)

Sie haben uns verlassen 13 November

Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (1868)
Camille Pissarro, French painter (1903)
Margaret Murray, English egyptologist (1963)
Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (1974)
Thierry Le Luron, French humorist (1986)
Edwige Feuillère, French actress (1998)
Valerie Hobson, English actress (1998)