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Other Notable Events, November 13
In 1933, the first recorded "sit-down" strike in the United States was staged by workers at the Hormel Packing Company in Austin, Minn.
In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case from Montgomery, Ala., that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional.
In 1967, Carl Stokes became the first black U.S. mayor when he was elected in Cleveland.
In 1974, Yasser Arafat told the U.N. General Assembly that the goal of the Palestine Liberation Organization was to establish an independent state of Palestine.
In 1982, the Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated in Washington.
In 1985, a volcano erupted in Colombia, killing 25,000 people. It was the third-deadliest volcano disaster in history.
In 1992, a group of Peruvian military officers tried unsuccessfully to assassinate President Alberto Fujimori and overthrow the government.
In 1993, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Farooq Leghari was chosen president.
In 1997, Iraq expelled the U.S. members of the U.N. team that had been sent to verify Iraq's compliance with U.N. directives.
In 2001, U.S. President George Bush and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons by about two-thirds.
In 2004, one day after Yasser Arafat's burial, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei called for the continuation of peace talks with Israel.
Also in 2004, an Iraqi national security adviser said up to 1,000 insurgents were killed in the six-day battle for Fallujah.
In 2006, as many as 150 people were kidnapped from Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education in Baghdad by about 80 gunmen in security services uniforms.
Also in 2006, nearly two dozen people were killed and thousands more displaced in flooding in northern Kenya.
In 2008, milk-containing Chinese imports was ordered held at the border until tests prove they aren't contaminated, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. The FDA said it issued the alert because of concerns that Chinese products such as candy snacks and cereal may be contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine.
Also in 2008, Sudanese President Omar Hassan Bashir ordered a cease-fire with rebels in war-torn Darfur and said he would move to disarm pro-government militias. Up to 300,000 black African inhabitants of Darfur have died since 2003 in what officials call an ethnic cleansing campaign.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/13/2009
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