This day in History - November 13

348 Historic Events for November 13
1833 Birth Edwin Thomas Booth, US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
1834 Birth Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco)
1838 Birth Joseph F Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church
1839 Event 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1843 Event Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1848 Birth Albert HK, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922)
1849 Event Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1849 Death William Etty, English painter (nudist), dies at 62
1850 Birth Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
1851 Event 1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands and Orange"
1851 Event Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked
1854 Birth George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)
1854 Event "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1855 Birth Dani‰l F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker
1856 Birth Louis D Brandeis, Mass, 68th Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
1856 Birth Sigwart Aspestrand, composer
1858 Birth Percy McDonnell, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
1862 Event Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 Death Ludwig Uhland, writer, dies at 75
1863 Death Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 50
1865 Event 1st US gold certificates issued
1865 Event PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 Event US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 Birth Pierre Maurice, composer
1868 Event American Philological Association organized in NY