November 13 in History

Historical Events on November 13

1002

English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1093

Battle of Alnwick English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are slain.
1160

Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.
1553

After the suppression of Wyatt's rebellion, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Lady Jane Grey and three others are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Queen Mary I of England.
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.
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 Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
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.
1940

Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
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 Guadalcanal Campaign.
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.
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.
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. 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 Suárez is sworn in as Miami'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.
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 a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.
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 Terror: 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.
2011

Mario Monti accepted to become the 54th Prime Minister of Italy with the ouster of Silvio Berlusconi, who failed to tackle Italy's debt crisis.
2012

A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific
2015

A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th and 11th arrondissements kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.
2015

WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.

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