Today in History for 13th November 2023

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Historical Events

1916 - Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription
1926 - Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam, West Java
1952 - False fingernails 1st sold
1966 - American comedian Flip Wilson makes his debut appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"; he returns 10 times
1991 - Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award
2014 - Indian cricket batsman Rohit Sharma sets new world ODI record of 264 runs off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata

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Famous Birthdays

1926 - Harry Hughes, 57th Governor of Maryland (1979-87), born in Easton, Maryland
1943 - Roberto Boninsegna, Italian soccer striker (22 caps; Cagliari, FC Inter Milan, Juventus FC), born in Mantua, Italy
1947 - Toy Caldwell, American Southern-rock musician (Marshall Tucker Band), born in Spartanburg, South Carolina (d. 1993)
1971 - Noah Hathaway, actor (Troll, Neverending Story)
1976 - Kelly Sotherton, English heptathlete
1993 - Julia Michaels [Cavazos], American pop singer and songwriter, born in Davenport, Iowa

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Famous Deaths

1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
1958 - Bart van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style), dies at 81
1974 - Karen Silkwood, American nuclear lab technician and labor union activist killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances at 28
1999 - Jaswick Taylor, West Indian cricket fast bowler (3 Tests; 5/109 in Test debut 1958), dies at 67
2010 - Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1921)
2013 - Barbara Lawrence, American model, actress, and real estate agent (Oklahoma!, A Letter to Three Wives), dies of kidney failure at 83

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