Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Nov. 13, 2024
1875 First football game with uniforms. Yale, wearing dark pants, blue shirts, and yellows hats beat Harvard who wore crimson shirts, pants, and stockings.
1946 Dry-ice pellets were dropped from a plane at 14,000 feet over Massachusetts creating snow. The snow fell about 3,000 feet before evaporating.
1956 Segregation on interstate buses was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme court. A result of the boycott that started when African American Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white person.
Music History:
1982 – Men At Work – Men At Work started a 15-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with their debut album ‘Business As Usual’, which went on to sell over five million copies in the US and included a number of hits including: ‘Who Can it be Now’.
Notable Birthdays today:
Jimmy Kimmell 57
Whoopi Goldberg 69
Credit to:
Thisdayinmusic.com and Thisdaytrivia.com
