November 13 is:
National Indian Pudding Day; Indian Pudding is made with cornmeal, milk and molasses.
World Kindness Day; to remember that little acts of kindness can have a big impact.
Sadie Hawkins Day, invented by Alfred Gerald Capp for his comic strip “Li’l Abner” on which day the spinsters of Dogpatch might pursue the unattached males. Sadie was said to be “the homeliest gal in them hills”.
On November 13, 1553, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, were accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary I. Thomas Cranmer was the Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He supported the principle of royal supremacy, in which the king was considered sovereign over the Church within his realm. When Edward came to the throne, Cranmer was able to promote major reforms. He wrote and compiled the first two editions of the Book of Common Prayer, a complete liturgy for the English Church. He changed doctrine or discipline in areas such as the Eucharist, clerical celibacy, the role of images in places of worship, and the veneration of saints. After the accession of the Catholic Mary I, Cranmer was put on trial for treason and heresy. His legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.
Birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson (November 13, 1850), Scottish novelist and poet famous for writing “Treasure Island”, “A Child’s Garden of Verses”, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and many more. Treasure Island is in the public domain and is available at our other website Nextdoorestore.com. A Child’s Garden of Verses is also available at Nextdoorestore.com.
Stevenson had always wanted his ‘Requiem’ inscribed on his tomb:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
1851 – The Denny Party landed at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington.
War on Terrorism 2001: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signed an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.