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On this day: November 13

Published: Nov 12 2012 11:11:30 PM EST Updated On: Nov 13 2012 02:00:00 AM EST

The "frankfurter" is born, the Holland Tunnel opens to traffic, the Supreme Court integrates Alabama's public buses, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated, and water is found on the moon, all on this day.

OTD November 13 - Ben Franklin — 1 / 37

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1789: In a letter to his friend, French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy, Benjamin Franklin writes the line, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

OTD November 13 - Ben Franklin

OTD November 13 - frankfurter

OTD November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson

OTD November 13 - Louis Brandeis

OTD November 13 - Leon Leonwood Bean

OTD November 13 - Camille Pissarro

OTD November 13 - Holland Tunnel

OTD November 13 - Garry Marshall

OTD November 13 - Fantasia

OTD November 13 - HMS Ark

OTD November 13 - Chris Noth

OTD November 13 - Whoopi Goldberg

OTD November 13 - Alabama buses

OTD November 13 - Jimmy Kimmel

OTD November 13 - Steve Zahn

OTD November 13 - Yellow Submarine

OTD November 13 - Gerard Butler

OTD November 13 - March Against Death

OTD November 13 - Karen Silkwood

OTD November 13 - Al Capp

OTD November 13 - Metta World Peace

OTD November 13 - Duk Koo Kim

OTD November 13 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial

OTD November 13 - Junior Samples

OTD November 13 - Nevado del Ruiz

OTD November 13 - The Running Man

OTD November 13 - Mulugeta Seraw

OTD November 13 - Beauty and the Beast

OTD November 13 - Greg Maddux

OTD November 13 - GoldenEye

OTD November 13 - Paula Jones

OTD November 13 - military tribunals

OTD November 13 - Roy Moore

OTD November 13 - Ol' Dirty Bastard

OTD November 13 - Eddie Guerrero

OTD November 13 - lunar water ice

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