November 13Birthdays & History

On this day: November 13 in history

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1. 1002English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.Europe
2. 1093Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are killed.Europe
3. 1160Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.Europe
4. 1642First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.Europe
5. 1715Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive.Europe
6. 1775American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.North America
7. 1809A British flotilla arrived at Ras Al Khaimah and launched an amphibious assault on the town, as a part of the Persian Gulf campaign of 1809.EuropeMiddle East
8. 1833Great Meteor Storm of 1833.North America
9. 1841James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.Europe
10. 1851The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.North America
11. 1864American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ends in a Union rout as Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge pursue them to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee.North America
12. 1887Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.Europe
13. 189313 November stabbing is committed by Léon Léauthier during the Ère des attentats. This is an influential event in the birth of modern terrorism.Europe
14. 1901The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster occurs, killing 9 of the 12 crew members.Europe
15. 1914Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.EuropeAfrica
16. 1916World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.Oceania
17. 1917World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in Italy known as the "First Battle of the Piave"). The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, despite help from the German Alpenkorps and numerical superiority, will fail their offensive against the Italian Army now led by its new chief of staff Armando Diaz.Europe
18. 1918World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.Middle East
19. 1922The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.North America
20. 1927The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.EuropeNorth America
21. 1940Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow.North America
22. 1942World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal campaign.OceaniaNorth AmericaAsia
23. 1945FC Dynamo Moscow open their exhibition tour of the United Kingdom with a 3–3 draw against Chelsea, breaking the record attendance for a British club football match.Europe
24. 1947The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.Europe
25. 1950General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.Latin America
26. 1954Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.Europe
27. 1956The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed a lower court ruling that invalidated Alabama laws requiring segregated buses, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.North America
28. 1965The SS Yarmouth Castle catches fire and sinks, killing 87.Latin America
29. 1966All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea near Matsuyama Airport in Japan, killing 50 people.Asia
30. 1966In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.Middle East
31. 1967The first of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland.Europe
32. 1969Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.AsiaNorth America
33. 1970Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (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.Asia
34. 1982Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 18) leads to significant changes in the sport.North America
35. 1982The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.AsiaNorth America
36. 1985The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.Latin America
37. 1985Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.North AmericaLatin America
38. 1989Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.Europe
39. 1990In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.Oceania
40. 1991The Republic of Karelia, an autonomous republic of Russia, is formed from the former Karelian ASSR.Europe
41. 1992The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.Oceania
42. 1993China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashes on approach to Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport in Ürümqi, China, killing 12 people.Asia
43. 1994In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.Europe
44. 1995Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.AfricaEurope
45. 1995Nigeria Airways Flight 357 crashes at Kaduna International Airport in Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 11 people and injuring 66.Africa
46. 1996As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project, Joel Armengaud discovers the project's first Mersenne prime number, 2 1398269 − 1 {\displaystyle 2^{1398269}-1} , a number with 420,921 digits.World
47. 2000Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.Asia
48. 2001War on terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.North America
49. 2002Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.Middle East
50. 2012A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.Oceania
51. 2015Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.Europe
52. 2022A mass stabbing occurs in Moscow, Idaho in which four University of Idaho students are killed in off-campus housing.North America

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