November 13

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.

Events

• 1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
• 1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
• 1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal, Quebec.
• 1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
• 1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliot Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
• 1864 – The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
• 1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
• 1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
• 1914 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
• 1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
• 1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
• 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
• 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.
• 1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
• 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
• 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• 1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1965 – The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
• 1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. 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.
• 1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
• 1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads 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, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
• 1986 – The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
• 1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
• 1989 – Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
• 1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
• 1992 – The 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.
• 1994 – In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
• 1995 – A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
• 2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
• 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 foreigners suspected of 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.
• 2007 – Russia officially withdraws from the Soviet-era Batumi military base, Georgia.
• 2012 – A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.

Births

• 354 – Augustine of Hippo, Algerian bishop and theologian (d. 430)
• 1312 – Edward III of England (d. 1377)
• 1486 – Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
• 1504 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1567)
• 1572 – Cyril Lucaris, Greek patriarch and theologian (d. 1638)
• 1699 – Jan Zach, Czech composer, violinist, and organist (d. 1773)
• 1710 – Charles Simon Favart, French playwright (d. 1792)
• 1714 – William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
• 1715 – Dorothea Erxleben, German doctor (d. 1762)
• 1732 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
• 1760 – Jiaqing Emperor of China (d. 1820)
• 1761 – John Moore, English general (d. 1809)
• 1782 – Esaias Tegnér, Swedish bishop and educator (d. 1846)
• 1780 – Ranjit Singh, Indian founder of the Sikh Empire (d. 1839)
• 1801 – Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (d. 1877)
• 1801 – Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1873)
• 1809 – John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (d. 1870)
• 1813 – Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Montenegrin statesman, religious leader and poet (d. 1851)
• 1814 – Joseph Hooker, American general (d. 1879)
• 1833 – Edwin Booth, American actor (d. 1893)
• 1837 – James T. Rapier, American politician (d. 1883)
• 1838 – Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
• 1841 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American general (d. 1913)
• 1848 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
• 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author and poet (d. 1894)
• 1853 – John Drew Jr., American actor (d. 1927)
• 1854 – George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer (d. 1931)
• 1856 – Louis Brandeis, American jurist (d. 1941)
• 1866 – Abraham Flexner, American educator, founded the Institute for Advanced Study (d. 1959)
• 1869 – Helene Stöcker, German author and activist (d. 1943)
• 1869 – Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian activist, journalist, and politician (d. 1962)
• 1872 – Leon Leonwood Bean, American businessman and author founded L.L.Bean (d. 1967)
• 1878 – Max Dehn, German-American mathematician (d. 1952)
• 1879 – John Grieb, American gymnast (d. 1939)
• 1881 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (d. 1942)
• 1883 – Oscar Brockmeyer, 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, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1894 – Arthur Nebe, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
• 1899 – Iskander Mirza, Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
• 1900 – Edward Buzzell, American director (d. 1985)
• 1904 – H. C. Potter, American director and producer (d. 1977)
• 1906 – Hermione Baddeley, English actress (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-American designer (d. 2011)
• 1907 – Giovanna of Italy (d. 2000)
• 1908 – C. Vann Woodward, American historian (d. 1999)
• 1910 – William Bradford Huie, American journalist and author (d. 1986)
• 1910 – Pat Reid, Indian-English army officer (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1913 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Helen Mack, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Lon Nol, Cambodian general and politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 1985)
• 1913 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1914 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian director (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1989)
• 1917 – Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1918 – George Grant, Canadian philosopher (d. 1988)
• 1920 – Edward Hughes, American bishop (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Chabua Amirejibi, Georgian author
• 1922 – Jack Narz, American game show host (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
• 1924 – Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (d. 2011)
• 1924 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Harry Hughes, American politician, 57th Governor of Maryland
• 1927 – Billy Klüver, Swedish-American engineer, co-founded Experiments in Art and Technology (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Steve Bilko, American baseball player (d. 1978)
• 1928 – Helena Carroll, Scottish-American actress (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Robert Bonnaud, French historian (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Fred Phelps, American pastor
• 1929 – Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (d. 1988)
• 1931 – Andrée Lachapelle, Canadian actress
• 1932 – Willie Edwards, American murder victim (d. 1957)
• 1932 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1934 – Peter Arnett, New Zealand-American journalist
• 1934 – Jimmy Fontana, Italian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1934 – Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer
• 1935 – Tom Atkins, American actor
• 1935 – George Carey, English archbishop
• 1935 – P. Susheela, Indian singer
• 1938 – Gérald Godin, Canadian poet and politician (d. 1994)
• 1938 – Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
• 1939 – Karel Brückner, Czech football coach
• 1939 – Idris Muhammad, American drummer and composer
• 1940 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher
• 1940 – Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor
• 1941 – Eberhard Diepgen, German politician
• 1941 – David Green, American businessman, founded Hobby Lobby
• 1941 – Dack Rambo, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1941 – Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player and coach
• 1942 – John P. Hammond, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer
• 1943 – André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (d. 1977)
• 1943 – Jay Sigel, American golfer
• 1944 – Timmy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1945 – Masahiro Hasemi, Japanese race car driver
• 1947 – Toy Caldwell, American guitarist and songwriter (The Marshall Tucker Band) (d. 1993)
• 1947 – Gene Garber, American baseball player
• 1947 – Amory Lovins, American physicist
• 1947 – Joe Mantegna, American actor
• 1948 – Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi author, screenwriter, and director
• 1949 – Yoshimi Ishibashi, Japanese race car driver
• 1949 – Terry Reid, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 – Mary Lou Metzger, American singer and dancer
• 1950 – Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 – Pini Gershon, Israeli basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Art Malik, Pakistani-English actor
• 1953 – Frances Conroy, American actress
• 1953 – Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politician
• 1953 – Stephen Paul, American physicist (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Andrew Ranken, English drummer (The Pogues)
• 1953 – Tracy Scoggins, American actress
• 1954 – Scott McNealy, American businessman, co-founded Sun Microsystems
• 1954 – Chris Noth, American actor
• 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, singer, and talk show host
• 1956 – Ginger Alden, American actress
• 1956 – Rex Linn, American actor
• 1956 – Anna Verouli, Greek javelin thrower
• 1957 – Stephen Baxter, English author
• 1957 – Roger Ingram, American trumpet player and author
• 1959 – Caroline Goodall, English actress
• 1960 – Neil Flynn, American actor
• 1960 – Teodora Ungureanu, Romanian gymnast
• 1963 – Vinny Testaverde, American football player
• 1967 – Juhi Chawla, Indian actress
• 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, and talk show host
• 1967 – Steve Zahn, American actor
• 1968 – Pat Hentgen, American baseball player
• 1969 – Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch politician and author
• 1969 – Lori Berenson, American political activist
• 1969 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
• 1969 – Nico Motchebon, German runner
• 1971 – Noah Hathaway, American actor
• 1971 – Buddy Zabala, Filipino bass player (Eraserheads, The Dawn, and Cambio)
• 1972 – Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer and actor (SMAP)
• 1973 – Ari Hoenig, American drummer and composer
• 1975 – Quim, Portuguese footballer
• 1975 – Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (d. 2008)
• 1975 – Alain Digbeu, French basketball player
• 1975 – Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer
• 1976 – Kelly Sotherton, English sprinter
• 1976 – Hiroshi Tanahashi, Japanese wrestler
• 1977 – Chanel Cole, Australian singer
• 1977 – Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
• 1978 – Nikolai Fraiture, American bass player (The Strokes and Nickel Eye)
• 1979 – Subliminal, Israeli rapper and producer
• 1979 – Metta World Peace, American basketball player
• 1980 – Monique Coleman, American actress
• 1980 – François-Louis Tremblay, Canadian speed skater
• 1981 – Rivkah, American illustrator
• 1981 – Ryan Bertin, American amateur wrestler
• 1981 – Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player
• 1981 – Shawn Yue, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1982 – Michael Copon, American actor and singer
• 1982 – Samkon Gado, Nigerian-American football player
• 1982 – Koda Kumi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1983 – Claudia Balderrama, Bolivian race walker
• 1983 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (d. 2012)
• 1984 – Lucas Barrios, Paraguayan footballer
• 1984 – Kurt Morath, Tongan rugby player
• 1985 – Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1987 – Dana Vollmer, American swimmer
• 1990 – Kathleen Herles, American voice actress
• 1991 – Devon Bostick, Canadian actor
• 1991 – Matt Bennett, American actor and singer
• 1996 – Austin Williams, American actor

Deaths

• 867 – Pope Nicholas I (b. 800)
• 1004 – Abbo of Fleury, French monk (b. 945)
• 1093 – Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1041)
• 1143 – Fulk, King of Jerusalem (b. 1089)
• 1170 – Albert the Bear, German son of Otto, Count of Ballenstedt (b. 1100)
• 1345 – Constance of Peñafiel (b. 1323)
• 1359 – Ivan II of Russia (b. 1326)
• 1460 – Henry the Navigator, Portuguese son of John I of Portugal (b. 1394)
• 1606 – Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
• 1619 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
• 1650 – Thomas May, English poet and historian (b. 1595)
• 1726 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle (b. 1666)
• 1770 – George Grenville, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
• 1771 – Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)
• 1777 – William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1699)
• 1862 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)
• 1867 – Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
• 1868 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
• 1883 – James Marion Sims, American physician (b. 1813)
• 1903 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
• 1916 – Saki, Burmese author and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1929 – Princess Viktoria of Prussia (b. 1866)
• 1942 – Daniel J. Callaghan, American navy officer (b. 1890)
• 1952 – Margaret Wise Brown, American author (b. 1910)
• 1954 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1961 – Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American general and diplomat (b. 1897)
• 1963 – Margaret Murray, English anthropologist (b. 1863)
• 1967 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Bruno Maderna, Italian-German conductor and composer (b. 1920)
• 1974 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (b. 1901)
• 1974 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (b. 1946)
• 1975 – Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Dimitris Psathas, Greek playwright (b. 1907)
• 1982 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
• 1983 – Henry Jamison Handy, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1886)
• 1983 – Junior Samples, American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
• 1985 – George Robert Vincent, American engineer (b. 1898)
• 1986 – Thierry Le Luron, French comedian (b. 1952)
• 1988 – Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)
• 1989 – Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1906)
• 1990 – Stewart Guthrie, New Zealand police officer (b.1948)
• 1991 – Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian archbishop (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Rufus R. Jones, American wrestler (b. 1933)
• 1994 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Bill Doggett, American pianist (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Swami Rama, Indian yogi (b. 1925)
• 1997 – André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Dawud M. Mu'Min, American murderer (b. 1953)
• 1998 – Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Valerie Hobson, Irish-English actress (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Michel Trudeau, Canadian son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
• 1999 – Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Peggy Mount, English actress (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Rishikesh Shaha, Nepalese politician (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Kellie Waymire, American actress (b. 1967)
• 2004 – John Balance, English singer-songwriter (Coil) (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan) (b. 1968)
• 2004 – Thomas M. Foglietta, American politician (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (b. 1967)
• 2005 – Vine Deloria, Jr., American author, theologian, historian, and activist (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (b. 1960)
• 2007 – John Doherty, English footballer (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Jules Archer, American author (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Ken Iman, American football player (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Allan Sandage, American astronomer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Murray Arnold, American basketball coach (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Will Barnet, American painter (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Erazm Ciołek, Polish photographer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Kenneth Cragg, English priest and scholar (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Yao Defen, Chinese giant (b. 1972)
• 2012 – Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Manuel Peña Escontrela, Spanish footballer (b. 1965)
• 2012 – John Sheridan, English rugby player (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Ray Zone, American historian, author, and illustrator (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Brice of Tours
  • Frances Xavier Cabrini
  • Homobonus
  • John Chrysostom (Eastern Orthodox, Repose)
  • Quintian of Rodez
  • Saints of the Premonstratensian Order
  • Stanislaus Kostka
  • The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi (Georgian Orthodox Church)
• Earliest day on which National Day of Mourning or Volkstrauertag can fall, observed two Sundays before the first of Advent. (Germany)
• Feast of Feronia, celebrated on the Ides of November (Roman Empire)
• World Kindness Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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