November 13
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November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 48 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events[change | change source]
Up to 1950[change | change source]
- 1002 – Ethelred the Unready orders the killing of Danes of England.
- 1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
- 1553 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and Lady Jane Grey are accused of high treason and sentenced to death.
- 1642 - English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green - The Royalist forces withdraw against the Parliamentary army and fail to take London.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under General Richard Montgomery.
- 1792 – Trenton, New Jersey becomes an incorporated city.
- 1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of "animal magnetism", which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls Hypnotism.
- 1851 – The first settlers arrive in what will become Seattle, Washington.
- 1864 – The Constitution of Greece is adopted.
- 1872 - A flood on Baltic Sea coastlines kills 271 people.
- 1908 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party of Australia.
- 1918 – British and French troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1927 - The Hotland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel to link New Jersey and New York City.
- 1941 - World War II: British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed.
- 1942 - World War II: US and Japanese forces clash in an intense battle on Guadalcanal.
- 1945 – Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia.
- 1947 – The Soviet Union completes the development of the AK-47.
- 1950 – In Venezuela, General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.
1951 – 2000[change | change source]
- 1954 - Great Britain defeats France in Paris to win the first Rugby League World Cup.
- 1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama's bus segregation laws illegal, ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1957 – Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding in Venice.
- 1960 - In the city of Amude in Syrian Kurdistan, a cinema fire kills 152 people.
- 1965 - The ship SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau, Bahamas, killing 90 people.
- 1969 – Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington, DC.
- 1970 – The Bhola Cyclone strikes East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing approximately 500,000 people.
- 1971 – The Mariner 9 spacecraft enters into orbit around Mars.
- 1972 - "Cyclone" Quimburga strikes the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, killing 73 people.
- 1977 – Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels marry.
- 1979 – The Times publishes for the first time in almost a year, following a strike.
- 1982 - Duk Doo Kim suffers fatal injuries, from which he dies on November 17, in a boxing match against Ray Mancini.
- 1982 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated.
- 1985 – The Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts, causing a mudslide that buries the town of Armero, killing around 23,000.
- 1985 - Xavier Suarez is sworn in as the first Cuban-born Mayor of Miami, Florida.
- 1986 - The Compact of Free Association takes effect, allowing the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia to become independent.
- 1990 – The first-ever website is released, after Tim Berners-Lee proposed the creation of the World Wide Web.
- 1992 - Riddick Bowe becomes heavyweight boxing world champion, defeating Evander Holyfield.
- 1994 - Michael Schumacher wins the first of his Formula One world titles.
- 1994 – Voters in Sweden approve entry to the EU.
- 1995 - A truck bomb explodes outside the US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing 5 Americans and 2 Indians.
- 1999 - Lennox Lewis becomes heavyweight boxing world champion, defeating Evander Holyfield.
- 2000 – Philippines: Articles of impeachment are passed against President Joseph Estrada.
From 2001[change | change source]
- 2001 – War on Terrorism: For the first time since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order that allows military tribunals against any foreigners believed of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
- 2001 – War in Afghanistan: Northern Alliance forces take Kabul.
- 2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off Galicia, causing a large oil spill.
- 2002 - Iraq agrees to let in UN Weapons Inspectors as part of the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
- 2005 – A chemical disaster occurs in Jilin, China, leading to the nearby river to be contaminated.
- 2010 – Following years of House Arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi is released in Burma.
- 2011 – Mario Monti is chosen to lead the Italian government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi.
Births[change | change source]
Up to 1800[change | change source]
- 354 – Augustine of Hippo, Algerian philosopher (d. 430)
- 532 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 604)
- 1312 – Edward III, King of England (d. 1377)
- 1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
- 1493 - William IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1550)
- 1504 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
- 1559 - Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (d. 1621)
- 1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
- 1595 - George William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1640)
- 1663 – Arni Magnusson, Icelandic scholar (d. 1730)
- 1699 - Jan Zach, Czech composer and musician (d. 1773)
- 1715 – Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, German doctor (d. 1762)
- 1732 - John Dickerson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
- 1760 – Jiaqing Emperor of China (d. 1820)
- 1780 - Ranjit Singh, Indian founder of the Sikh Empire (d. 1839)
- 1782 – Esaias Tegner, Swedish writer (d. 1846)
- 1792 - Edward Trelawny, English writer (d. 1881)
1801 – 1900[change | change source]
- 1801 – Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Queen of Prussia (d. 1873)
- 1801 - Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony (d. 1877)
- 1806 – Emilia Plater, Polish-Lithuanian princess (d. 1831)
- 1809 - John A. Dahlgren, American navy admiral (d. 1870)
- 1813 - Peter II Petrovic-Njegos, Montenegrin statesman, religious leader and poet (d. 1851)
- 1814 – Joseph Hooker, American general (d. 1879)
- 1826 - Charles Worth, English fashion designer (d. 1895)
- 1833 - Edwin Booth, American actor (d. 1893)
- 1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith, American Mormon leader (d. 1918)
- 1841 - Lucius F. C. Garvin, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1922)
- 1848 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
- 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)
- 1854 - George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer and educator (d. 1931)
- 1856 - Louis Brandeis, American jurist (d. 1941)
- 1869 - Helene Stoecker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist (d. 1943)
- 1872 - John MacIntosh Lyle, Canadian architect, designer, urban planner and teacher (d. 1945)
- 1878 – Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)
- 1879 - John Grieb, American gymnast (d. 1939)
- 1883 - Oscar Brockmmeyer, American soccer player (d. 1954)
- 1883 - Leo Goodwin, American swimmer, diver and water polo player (d. 1957)
- 1886 - Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d. 1973)
- 1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, won the 1843 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
- 1897 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
- 1899 – Iskander Mirza, President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
- 1899 – Huang Xianfan, Chinese historian and educator (d. 1982)
1901 – 1950[change | change source]
- 1904 - H. C. Potter, American movie director and theatre director (d. 1977)
- 1904 - Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, German lawyer and resistance activist (d. 1944)
- 1907 – Giovanna of Italy, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (d. 2006)
- 1912 - Claude Pompidou, wife of Georges Pompidou and First Lady of France (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Lon Nol, Cambodian politician (d. 1985)
- 1914 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian movie director (d. 2005)
- 1915 - Maurice M. Shapiro, American physicist (d. 2008)
- 1915 - Howard Cooke, former Governor-General of Jamaica (d. 2014)
- 1917 - Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1989)
- 1917 - Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
- 1923 – Linda Christian, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1924 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist and biologist (d. 1994)
- 1926 - Don Gordon, American actor
- 1926 - Harry Hughes, 57th Governor of Maryland
- 1929 - Asashio Taro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1988)
- 1929 – Fred Phelps, American pastor (d. 2014)
- 1932 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1934 - Peter Arnett, American journalist
- 1934 – Garry Marshall, American screenwriter, movie producer, and actor
- 1935 – George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1935 - Tom Atkins, American actor
- 1936 - Salim Kallas, Syrian actor and politician (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
- 1939 – Karel Brueckner, Czech football manager
- 1939 - Idris Muhammad, American jazz drummer (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Will Ryan, American actor
- 1940 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician
- 1941 – Eberhard Diepgen, German politician, former Governing Mayor of Berlin
- 1941 - Dack Rambo, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1943 – Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer
- 1943 - Howard Wilkinson, English footballer
- 1944 - Jimmy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and producer
- 1947 – Joe Mantegna, American actor and director
- 1948 - Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi novelist and movie maker
- 1950 - Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 – 1975[change | change source]
- 1951 - Pini Gershon, Israeli basketball player and coach
- 1952 - Art Malik, Pakistani-born British actor
- 1953 - Frances Conroy, American actress
- 1953 - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexican politician
- 1953 - Andrew Ranken, British musician
- 1953 - Tracy Scoggins, American actress
- 1954 - Scott McNealy, American businessman, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- 1954 – Chris Noth, American actor
- 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress and comedienne
- 1956 – Rex Linn, American actor
- 1957 – Stephen Baxter, English science fiction writer
- 1957 - Scott Thompson, American businessman
- 1957 - Roger Ingram, American trumpeter, educator and writer
- 1959 - Hari Kostov, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
- 1959 - Caroline Goodall, British-Australian actress
- 1960 – Neil Flynn, American actor
- 1963 - Venny Testaverde, American football player
- 1967 - Juhi Chawla, Indian actress, singer and producer
- 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk show host
- 1969 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
- 1969 – Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-born Dutch writer and activist
- 1969 - Lori Berenson, American political activist
- 1971 - Noah Hathaway, American actor
- 1975 – Ivica Dragutinovic, Serbian footballer
- 1975 – Quim, Portuguese footballer
- 1975 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (d. 2008)
From 1976[change | change source]
- 1976 – Kelly Sotherton, English athlete
- 1976 - Albina Akhatova, Russian biathlete
- 1977 - Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
- 1978 – Nikolai Fraiture, American musician (The Strokes)
- 1979 - Metta World Peace, American basketball player and rapper
- 1980 - Monique Coleman, American actress and singer
- 1982 – Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
- 1982 - Michael Kopon, American actor and singer
- 1983 - Claudio Balderrama, Bolivian race walker
- 1984 - Kurt Morath, Tongan rugby player
- 1984 – Lucas Barrios, Argentine-Paraguayan footballer
- 1986 - Moon Chae-won, South Korean actress
- 1986 - Kevin Bridges, Scottish comedian
- 1987 - Dana Vollmer, American swimmer
- 1990 – Jeffrey Bruma, Dutch footballer
- 1990 - Jerzy Janowicz, Polish tennis player
- 1991 - Matt Bennett, American actor, singer and screenwriter
- 1991 - Devon Bostick, Canadian actor
- 1992 - Shabazz Muhammad, American basketball player
Deaths[change | change source]
Up to 1950[change | change source]
- 565 – Justinian I, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 482 or 483)
- 867 - Pope Nicholas I
- 1004 - Abbo of Fleury, French monk and saint (b. 945)
- 1093 – Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1041)
- 1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem
- 1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg
- 1314 - Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1240)
- 1319 – Eric VI of Denmark (b. 1274)
- 1359 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1326)
- 1460 – Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince and patron of African exploration (b. 1394)
- 1606 - Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (b. 1530)
- 1619 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1565)
- 1726 - Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (b. 1666)
- 1770 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1712)
- 1862 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)
- 1868 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
- 1916 - Saki, British author and playwright (b. 1870)
- 1929 – Princess Viktoria of Prussia (b. 1866)
- 1950 – Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela (b. 1909)
1951 – 2000[change | change source]
- 1963 - Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
- 1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
- 1973 - Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890)
- 1973 – Bruno Maderna, Italian-German conductor and composer (b. 1920)
- 1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian-French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
- 1983 - Henry Jamison Handy, American swimmer, water polo player and movie maker (b. 1896)
- 1983 - Junior Samples, American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
- 1986 - Rudolf Schock, German tenor (b. 1915)
- 1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
- 1988 - Jaromir Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
- 1989 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)
- 1989 – Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1906)
- 1994 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist and biologist (b. 1924)
- 1996 - Bill Doggett, American pianist and organist (b. 1916)
- 1998 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman and son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
- 1999 - Donald Mills, American singer (b. 1915)
From 2001[change | change source]
- 2002 – Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1925)
- 2004 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)
- 2005 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
- 2007 - Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (b. 1960)
- 2009 - Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish movie director (b. 1921)
- 2014 - Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922)
- 2014 - Manoel de Barros, Brazilian poet (b. 1916)
- 2014 - Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician (b. 1928)
- 2014 - Mike Burney, English jazz saxophonist (b. 1944)
Observances[change | change source]
- World Kindness Day