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November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap
years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days
remaining.
Events
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot
revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen capture Montreal from British General Guy Carleton.
- 1851 - The Denny Party lands at
Alki Point, the first settlers of what will
become Seattle, Washington.
- 1887 - Bloody Sunday
clashes in central London
- 1909 - Ballinger-Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's magazine accuses US Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of
questionable dealings in Alaskan coal
fields.
- 1940 - The animated feature-length film Fantasia is released.
- 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal torpedoed by U 81,
resulting in its sinking on November 14.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese heavy cruiser BB-
Hiei.
- 1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: Anti-war
protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death."
- 1970 - A 100-mph tropical
cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)s, killing an estimated 500,000 people (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster).
- 1982 - A boxing match held at Caesars Palace 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, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing
approximately 23,000 people.
- 1990 - The first known web
page is written. [1]
- 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 - Symbionese Liberation Army member
Kathleen Soliah (Sara Jane Olsen) withdraws her previous guilty
plea.
- 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.
Births
- 354 - Saint Augustine of
Hippo, theologian (d. 430)
- 1312 - King Edward
III of England (d. 1377)
- 1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
- 1714 - William
Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
- 1715 - Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Germany's first female physician (d. 1762)
- 1768 - Bertel
Thorvaldsen, sculptor (d. 1844)
- 1792 - Edward Trelawny, English writer (d. 1881)
- 1826 - Charles
Frederick Worth, couturier (d. 1895)
- 1833 - Edwin Booth, actor (d.
1893)
- 1848 - Albert I of
Monaco (d. 1922)
- 1850 - Robert
Louis Stevenson, writer (d. 1894)
- 1856 - Louis Brandeis,
Justice of the United States
Supreme Court (d. 1941)
- 1869 - Helene Stöcker, pacifist (d. 1943)
- 1886 - Mary Wigman, dancer,
choreographer (d. 1973)
- 1916 - Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1922 - Oskar Werner, actor (d.
1984)
- 1922 - Jack Narz, game show host
- 1924 - Motoo Kimura, population geneticist
- 1933 - Peter Härtling, writer and publisher
- 1934 - Garry Marshall,
producer, director, writer, actor
- 1938 - Jean Seberg, actress (d.
1979)
- 1942 - John Hammond, blues musician
- 1947 - Joe Mantegna, actor
- 1955 - Whoopi Goldberg,
actress, comedienne, singer (The Color Purple,
Ghost, Whoopi)
- 1968 - Pat Hentgen, baseball player
Deaths
- 867 - St. Nicholas I,
Pope
- 1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland
- 1170 - Albert I
of Brandenburg, "the Bear", margrave
- 1460 - Henry the
Navigator, Portuguese prince and patron of African exploration
- 1868 - Gioacchino
Rossini, composer
- 1939 - Lois Weber, director, actress, and screenwriter
- 1952 - Margaret Wise
Brown, childrens' author
- 1967 - Harriet Cohen,
pianist
- 1974 - Vittorio De Sica,
Italin film director
- 1974 - Karen Silkwood, union activist
- 1994 - Motoo Kimura, population geneticist
- 2003 - Kellie Waymire,
actress (Star Trek: Enterprise) (b. 1967)
Holidays and observances
November 12 - November
14 - October 13 - December
13 -- listing of all days
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