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TODAY - Nov 13, 2025

Thought of the Day

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Today's Birthday

Edward III
Edward III Monarch, English(1312)

An English monarch.

 
Edwin Thomas Booth
Edwin Thomas Booth Actor, American(1833)

An American actor who performed on Shakespearean plays.

 
Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis Lawyer, American(1856)

An American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States (1916 to 1939).

 
Adrienne Corri
Adrienne Corri Actress , British(1931)

A British actress who appeared in Bunny Lake is Missing and A Clockwork Orange among other films.

 
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson Poet, Scottish(1850)

A Scottish essayist, poet and novelist, whose popularity based primarily on the exciting subject matter of his adventure novels and fantasy stories.

This day in History

1789

George Washington returns to the executive residence in New York City at the end of his first Presidential tour.

1920

The first session of the League of Nations begins in Geneva with 5,000 representatives from 41 nations.

1933

In Austin, Minn., workers at the packing plant of George A. Hormel and Co. hold the first sit-down strike in American labor history.

1982

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. The names of more than 58,000 lost soldiers are inscribed on a long wall of polished black granite.

Man who made the difference

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Robert Louis Stevenson

A Scottish essayist, poet and novelist, whose popularity based primarily on the exciting subject matter of his adventure novels and fantasy stories, was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom and enrolled himself in engineering. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh. He often travels in search of warm climates to ease his illness (tuberculosis). In 1878 he published his An Inland Voyage a descriptions of his journeys through Belgium and France in 1876 and in 1879, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes was based on his journey on foot through mountains. In 1880 he married with an American divorcee Frances Osbourne. In 1880, they returned to Europe. In 1887 he moved again to Saranac Lake, New York. His other finest collections include Treasure Island (1883), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Underwoods (1887), Ballads (1890), The New Arabian Nights (1882) and Island Nights' Entertainments (1893).

The Scottish novelist who contributed several classic works to children's literature died on December 3, 1894, in Vailima, Samoa.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal