November 13 - Definition and Overview

November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining.

Events

1700-1899

• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal defended by British Kingdom of Great Britain General Guy Carleton. Allen and his troups were disorganised and soundly defeated.
• 1805 - Johann Georg Lehner invents the hot dog.
• 1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.
• 1887 - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London

1900-1999

• 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 is torpedoed by U 81, she sinks on November 14.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese heavy cruiser BB- Hiei.
• 1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• 1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage is still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.
• 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 - 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-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 - Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood's car is forced off the road 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.
• 1974 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat gives a landmark address to the United Nations General Assembly.
• 1981 - The first Friday the 13th event held by motorcyclists in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1990 - The first known World Wide Web page is written.
• 1994 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.

2000-2099

• 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.
• 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

300-1899

• 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)
• 1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
• 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)

1900-1999

• 1908 - Hermione Baddeley, actress(d. 1986)
• 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
• 1963 - Vinny Testaverde, American football quarterback
• 1968 - Pat Hentgen, baseball player
• 1972 - Kimura Takuya, Japanese singer/actor
• 1977 - Chanel Cole, singer (was on Australian Idol)
• 1979 - Ron Artest, basketball player

Deaths

800-1899

• 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

1900-1999

• 1937 - Mrs. Leslie Carter nee Caroline Dudley, Broadway star (b. 1862)
• 1939 - Lois Weber, director, actress, and screenwriter
• 1952 - Margaret Wise Brown, children's author
• 1967 - Harriet Cohen, pianist
• 1973 - Bryan Stanley Johnson, British novelist, poet, filmmaker
• 1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italin film director
• 1974 - Karen Silkwood, union activist
• 1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
• 1994 - Motoo Kimura, population geneticist

2000-2099

• 2003 - Kellie Waymire, actress (b. 1967)
• 2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, rap artist (b. 1968)
• 2004 - John Balance, musician and artist (b. 1962)

Holidays and observances

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