NOVEMBER 13
1982:Designed by Yale University architecture student Maya Lin, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., as thousands of veterans look on. The V-shaped, reflective black granite memorial now displays the names of 58,272 Americans killed or missing in action during the conflict.
1940:Walt Disney's "Fantasia" premieres
1942: In the midst of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill to lower the minimum age for the military draft from 21 to 18.
1974: Plutonium plant whistleblower Karen Silkwood is killed in an unexplained one-car crash in Crescent, Okla., while driving to a meeting with a New York Times reporter concerning health and safety issues surrounding the Kerr-McGee Corp.'s operation of the plant.
1940:Willys-Overland submits the Jeep prototype to the U.S. Army 0 by 1945, 600,000 Jeeps had been made.
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