November 13

2024 Calendar

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

Up to 1950

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

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

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.
2015 - Russia is provisionally suspended from international athletics competitions following a major doping scandal.
2015 - The November 2015 Paris attacks occur. At least 129 people are killed as attackers strike several sites across Paris late in the evening - at least 80 are killed at the Bataclan concert hall alone.
2017 - As four-time champion, the Italy national football team fails to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 60 years; The Sweden national football team qualifies in its place, making sure of its first appearance in the competition since 2006.
2019 - An emergency is declared in the city of Venice, Italy, because of record flooding.

Births

1951 – 1975

1951 - Pini Gershon, Israeli basketball player and coach
1952 - Art Malik, Pakistani-born British actor
1953 - Frances Conroy, American actress
1953 - Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politician, President of Mexico from 2018
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
1956 - Charlie Baker, American politician, 72nd Governor of Massachusetts
1957 - Greg Abbott, American politician, 48th Governor of Texas
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
1965 - Zeljko Petrovic, Montenegrin footballer
1967 - Juhi Chawla, Indian actress, singer and producer
1967 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk show host
1968 - Shinichiro Tani, Japanese footballer
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
1974 - Graeme Murty, Scottish footballer and coach
1975 – Ivica Dragutinovic, Serbian footballer
1975 – Quim, Portuguese footballer
1975 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (d. 2008)

From 1976

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 - Daniela Klemenschits, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
1982 - Sandra Klemenschits, Austrian tennis player
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

Up to 1950

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 writer and playwright (b. 1870)
1929 – Princess Viktoria of Prussia (b. 1866)
1950 – Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela (b. 1909)

1951 – 2000

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

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)
2014 - Chris Meffert, American politician (b. 1943)
2015 - People killed in the November 2015 Paris attacks including:
- Thomas Ayad, French music executive
- Guillaume B. Decherf, French music executive and journalist (b. 1972)
- Alban Denuit, French visual artist (b. 1983)
- Matthieu Giroud, French geographer (b. 1976)
2016 - Enzo Maiorca, Italian free diver, television host and politician (b. 1931)
2016 - Leon Russell, American musician and songwriter (b. 1942)
2017 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2017 - Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., American naval aviator (b. 1924)
2017 - Alina Janowska, Polish actress (b. 1923)
2017 - David Poisson, French skier (b. 1982)
2017 - Jim Rivera, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2017 - Eric Salzman, American composer (b. 1933)
2018 - Lucho Gatica, Chilean bolero singer and actor (b. 1928)
2018 - Caroline Rose Hunt, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
2018 - Everett A. Kelly, American politician (b. 1926)
2018 - Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, American actress (b. 1925)
2018 - William Mullan, Scottish football referee (b. 1928)
2019 - Kieran Modra, Australian swimmer and cyclist (b. 1972)
2019 - Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist (b. 1936)
2019 - Tom Spurgeon, American journalist (b. 1968)
2019 - Niall Tóibín, Irish comedian and actor (b. 1929)
2019 - José Luis Veloso, Spanish footballer (b. 1937)

Observances

World Kindness Day

November 13

Events

Up to 1950

1951 – 2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1800

1801 – 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1950

1951 – 2000

From 2001

Observances