CoM Moderators Posted October 13 Posted October 13 Historical Events 1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights: British forces defeat United States forces attempting to invade Canada 1903 - Victor Herbert and by Glen MacDonough's operetta "Babes in Toyland" premieres at Majestic Theater, New York City 1993 - MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2 2005 - English playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2012 - 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1794 - Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1868) 1881 - George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet and composer (Plumb), born in Bacău, Romania (d. 1957) 1903 - Jens Bjerre Jacobsen, Danish organist, and composer (Mosaïque musicale), born in Aarhus, Denmark (d. 1986) 1958 - Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian progressive journalist, author, and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was brutally murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, born in Medina, Saudi Arabia (d. 2018) 1960 - Peter Keisler, American lawyer and acting Attorney General of the United States (2007), born in Hempstead, New York More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1959 - Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer and musicologist (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67 1990 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese revolutionary general, politician and negotiator in Paris (1975), dies at 78 2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942) 2008 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (Damien in "Versailles", Fred in "The Apprentices"), dies of pneumonia at 37 2011 - Barbara Kent, Canadian born - U.S. silent film actress and WAMPAS Baby Stars (b.1907) More Famous Deaths »
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