November 13

is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining.

Events

1002 - English king Ethelred ordered killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal defended by British General Guy Carleton. Allen and his troops were disorganised and soundly defeated; however, U.S. Brigadier General Richard Montgomery's force entered Montreal unopposed.
1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.
1887 - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London
1908 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia.
1909 - Ballinger-Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1916 - Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, she sinks on November 14.
1942 - World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal
1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.
1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1956 - United States Supreme Court declared Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.
1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
1965 - The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
1969 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death."
1970 - Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster).
1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, has become the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.
1974 - Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood is killed in a car crash while she is travelling to an interview with New York Times reporter David Burnham. Her files are missing from the carwreck; an FBI investigation later concludes accident, but is not generally believed to have been impartial.
1974 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his family in Amityville, New York (Amityville Horror)
1982 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Kim Duk Koo. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
1985 - The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 - Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
1990 - The first known World Wide Web page is written.
1994 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
2001 - Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.
2001 - War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 - The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
2005 - Chicago Bears cornerback Nathan Vasher returned a missed field goal 108 yards against the San Francisco 49ers. This was the longest play in NFL history.

Births

354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, North African theologian (d. 430)
1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
1504 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
1710 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)
1714 - William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
1732 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
1760 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (d. 1820)
1761 - John Moore, British general (d. 1809)
1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
1826 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)
1833 - Edwin Booth, American actor (d. 1893)
1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
1848 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)
1856 - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1941)
1869 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian feminist (d. 1962)
1886 - Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d. 1973)
1906 - Hermione Baddeley, English actress (d. 1986)
1908 - C. Vann Woodward, American historian
1913 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
1913 - Helen Mack, American actress (d. 1986)
1914 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005)
1918 - Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Jack Narz, American game show host
1922 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
1924 - Linda Christian, Mexican-born actress
1924 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)
1933 - Adrienne Corri, Scottish actress
1934 - Garry Marshall, American producer, director, writer, and actor
1935 - Tom Atkins, American actor
1935 - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
1938 - Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
1939 - Idris Muhammad, American jazz drummer
1941 - Mel Stottlemyre, baseball player and coach
1942 - John Hammond, American musician
1947 - Joe Mantegna, American actor
1950 - Mary Lou Metzger, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
1950 - Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Frances Conroy, American actress
1954 - Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems
1954 - Chris Noth, American actor
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer
1957 - Ginger Alden, American actress
1963 - Vinny Testaverde, American football player
1967 - Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk-show host
1968 - Pat Hentgen, baseball player
1969 - Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
1969 - Lori Berenson, U.S. journalist
1972 - Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer and actor
1977 - Chanel Cole, Australian singer
1979 - Ron Artest, American basketball player
1978 - Nikolai Fraiture Bass player for NYC based bant The Strokes
1979 - Subliminal, Israeli rapper and producer
1981 - Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player
1982 - Samkon Gado, American football player
1982 - Kumi Koda, Japanese singer

Deaths

867 - Pope Nicholas I
1004 - Abbon of Fleury
1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1031)
1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem
1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg
1314 - Albert the Degenerate
1345 - Constance of Penafiel, wife of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)
1359 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1326)
1460 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394)
1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
1619 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
1770 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
1771 - Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)
1862 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)
1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
1868 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
1903 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
1952 - Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (b. 1910)
1954 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
1973 - Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1901)
1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
1974 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (b. 1946)
1975 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910)
1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
1988 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
1994 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
1997 - André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925)
2003 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (b. 1967)
2004 - John Balance, English musician and artist (b. 1962)
2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)
2005 - Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-born professional wrestler (b. 1967)

Holidays and observances

Roman festivals - Iovis epulum; feast of Feronia
R.C. Saints - Bricius of Tours; Mother Cabrini; Saint Homobonus
Also see November 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

BBC: On This Day

November 12 - November 14 - October 13 - December 13 -- listing of all days

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