NOVEMBER 13
1997:The crowd-pleasing musical The Lion King,
directed by avant-garde director Julie Taymor and based on the 1994
Disney film of the same name, premieres on Broadway at the New Amsterdam
Theater.
1971: NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft goes into orbit around Mars, becoming the first man-made satellite to orbit a planet other than Earth.
1982: Thousands of veterans
march in Washington to witness the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial. The V-shaped, reflective black granite memorial, designed by
Yale University architecture student Maya Lin, now displays the names of
58,267 Americans killed or missing in action during the conflict.
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