This Day In History — Milton Hershey is Born

September 13

1943
Chiang Kai-Shek became president of China.

1948
Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to have served in both houses of Congress.

1971
The four-day revolt at the maximum security prison in Attica, New York, ended when state police and National Guardsmen stormed the facility. Forty-two people died.

1993
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat shook hands after signing an historic peace agreement.

Birthdays

Walter Reed

1851–1902, American army surgeon, born in Gloucester co., Va.

Milton Hershey

chocolatier, philanthropist (1857)

John J. Pershing

army officer (1860)

Arnold Schoenberg

composer (1874)

Sherwood Anderson

novelist (1876)

J. B. Priestley

author (1894)

Claudette Colbert

movie actress (1903)

Bill Monroe

bluegrass musician (1911)

Roald Dahl

writer (1916)