November 13
is the 317th day of the year (318th in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining.
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1002 - English king
Ethelred ordered killing of all
Danes in England, known today as the
St. Brice's Day massacre.
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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.
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1841 -
James Braid first sees a demonstration of
animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls
hypnosis.
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1851 - The
Denny Party lands at
Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become
Seattle, Washington.
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1887 -
Bloody Sunday clashes in central
London*
1908 -
Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th
Prime Minister of Australia.
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1909 -
Ballinger-Pinchot scandal begins:
Collier's magazine accuses U.S.
Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in
Alaskan
coal fields.
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1916 -
Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the
Labor Party over his support for
conscription.
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1941 -
World War II: The
aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by
U 81, she sinks on
November 14.
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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.
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1954 -
Great Britain defeated
France to capture the first ever
Rugby League World Cup in
Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
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1956 -
United States Supreme Court declared
Alabama and
Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the
Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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1960 -
Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress
May Britt.
Interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.
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1961 -
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the
KGB.
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1965 - The
SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off
Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
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1969 -
Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in
Washington, DC stage a symbolic "
March Against Death."
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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).
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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.
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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.
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1974 -
Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his family in
Amityville, New York (
Amityville Horror)
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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.
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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.
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1990 - The first known
World Wide Web page is written.
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1994 - Voters in
Sweden decide to join the
European Union in a
referendum.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2005 -
WWE wrestler Eddie Guerrero passed away, found dead in his hotel room, the day he was set to win the
WWE World Heavyweight Championship from
Batista*
354 - Saint
Augustine of Hippo, North African theologian (d.
430)
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1312 - King
Edward III of England (d.
1377)
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1486 -
Johann Eck, German theologian (d.
1543)
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1504 -
Philipp I of Hesse (d.
1567)
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1710 -
Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d.
1792)
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1714 -
William Shenstone, English poet (d.
1763)
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1732 -
John Dickinson, American lawyer and
Governor of Delaware and
Pennsylvania (d.
1808)
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1760 -
Jiaqing,
Emperor of China (d.
1820)
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1761 -
John Moore, British general (d.
1809)
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1768 -
Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d.
1844)
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1826 -
Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d.
1895)
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1833 -
Edwin Booth, American actor (d.
1893)
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1838 -
Joseph Fielding Smith, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d.
1918)
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1848 -
Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d.
1922)
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1850 -
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d.
1894)
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1853 -
John Drew Jr., American actor (d.
1927)
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1856 -
Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.
1941)
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1869 -
Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian feminist (d.
1962)
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1886 -
Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d.
1973)
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1906 -
Hermione Baddeley, English actress (d.
1986)
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1908 -
C. Vann Woodward, American historian
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1910 -
William Bradford Huie, American journalist, editor, publisher and author (d.
1986)
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1913 -
Alexander Scourby, American actor (d.
1985)
* 1913 -
Helen Mack, American actress (d.
1986)
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1914 -
Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d.
2005)
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1918 -
Jack Elam, American actor (d.
2003)
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1922 -
Jack Narz, American game show host
* 1922 -
Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d.
1984)
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1924 -
Linda Christian, Mexican-born actress
* 1924 -
Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d.
1994)
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1928 -
Steve Bilko, Baseball player (d.
1978)
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1933 -
Adrienne Corri, Scottish actress
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1934 -
Garry Marshall, American producer, director, writer, and actor
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1935 -
Tom Atkins, American actor
* 1935 -
George Carey,
Archbishop of Canterbury*
1938 -
Jean Seberg, American actress (d.
1979)
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1939 -
Idris Muhammad, American jazz drummer
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1941 -
Mel Stottlemyre, baseball player and coach
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1942 -
John Hammond, American musician
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1947 -
Joe Mantegna, American actor
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1950 -
Mary Lou Metzger, American singer,
The Lawrence Welk Show* 1950 -
Gilbert Perreault, Canadian
ice hockey player
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1951 -
Frances Conroy, American actress
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1954 -
Scott McNealy,
CEO of
Sun Microsystems* 1954 -
Chris Noth, American actor
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1955 -
Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer
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1957 -
Ginger Alden, American actress
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1963 -
Vinny Testaverde, American football player
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1967 -
Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk-show host
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1968 -
Pat Hentgen, baseball player
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1969 -
Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
* 1969 -
Lori Berenson, U.S. journalist
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1972 -
Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer and actor
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1977 -
Chanel Cole, Australian singer
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1979 -
Ron Artest, American basketball player
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1978 -
Nikolai Fraiture Bass player for NYC based bant
The Strokes*
1979 -
Subliminal, Israeli rapper and producer
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1980 -
Monique Coleman, American actress
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1981 -
Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player
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1982 -
Samkon Gado, American football player
* 1982 -
Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
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867 -
Pope Nicholas I*
1004 -
Abbon of Fleury*
1093 - King
Malcolm III of Scotland (b.
1031)
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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)
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1359 -
Ivan II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b.
1326)
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1460 - Prince
Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b.
1394)
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1606 -
Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b.
1530)
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1619 -
Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b.
1555)
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1770 -
George Grenville,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1712)
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1771 -
Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b.
1712)
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1862 -
Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b.
1787)
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1867 -
Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b.
1806)
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1868 -
Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b.
1792)
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1903 -
Camille Pissarro, French painter (b.
1830)
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1952 -
Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (b.
1910)
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1954 -
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b.
1881)
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1967 -
Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b.
1895)
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1973 -
Lila Lee, American actress (b.
1901)
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1974 -
Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b.
1901)
* 1974 -
Karen Silkwood, American activist (b.
1946)
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1975 -
Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b.
1910)
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1988 -
Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b.
1906)
* 1988 -
JaromÃr Vejvoda, Czech composer (b.
1902)
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1994 -
Motoo Kimura,
Japanese geneticist (b.
1924)
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1997 -
André Boucourechliev, French composer (b.
1925)
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1997 -
Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (b.
1953)
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1998 -
Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of
Pierre Trudeau (b.
1975)
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2003 -
Kellie Waymire, American actress (b.
1967)
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2004 -
John Balance, English musician and artist (b.
1962)
* 2004 -
Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b.
1968)
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2005 -
Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-born professional wrestler (b.
1967)
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Roman festivals -
Iovis epulum; feast of
Feronia*
R.C. Saints -
Bricius of Tours;
Mother Cabrini;
Saint Homobonus*Also see
November 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
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