November 13: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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

Events

• 1002 - English king Ethelred ordered killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
• 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.
• 1805 - Johann Georg Lahner invents the hot dog.
• 1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
• 1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.
• 1887 - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London
• 1908 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1909 - Ballinger-Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's magazine accuses US Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
• 1916 - Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
• 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 fast battleship Hiei.
• 1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.
• 1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• 1956 - United States Supreme Court declared Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.
• 1960 A fire at a movie theater in Amude Syria kills 152 people.
• 1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
• 1965 - The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC 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 (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1985 Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
• 1990 - The first known World Wide Web page is written.
• 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 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.

• 354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, North African theologian (d. 430)
• 1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
• 1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
• 1504 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
• 1710 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)
• 1714 - William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
• 1732 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (d. 1808)
• 1760 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (d. 1820)
• 1761 - John Moore, British general (d. 1809)
• 1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
• 1826 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)
• 1833 - Edwin Booth, American actor (d. 1893)
• 1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
• 1848 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
• 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)
• 1856 - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1941)
• 1886 - Mary Wigman, dancer and choreographer (d. 1973)
• 1906 - Hermione Baddeley, English actress (d. 1986)
• 1913 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1914 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005)
• 1918 - Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Jack Narz, American game show host
• 1922 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
• 1923 - Joan Croydon, theater actress who made one movie (The Bad Seed) (d.1995)
• 1924 - Linda Christian, Mexican-born actress
• 1924 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)
• 1933 - Adrienne Corri, actress
• 1934 - Garry Marshall, American producer, director, writer, and actor
• 1935 - Tom Atkins, American actor
• 1935 - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1938 - Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
• 1941 - Mel Stottlemyre, baseball player and coach
• 1942 - John Hammond, American musician
• 1947 - Joe Mantegna, American actor
• 1951 - Frances Conroy, American actress
• 1954 - Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems
• 1954 - Chris Noth, American actor
• 1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedienne, and singer
• 1957 - Ginger Alden, American actress
• 1963 - Vinny Testaverde, American football player
• 1967 - Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk-show host
• 1968 - Pat Hentgen, baseball player
• 1969 - Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
• 1969 - Lori Berenson, U.S. journalist
• 1972 - Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer and actor
• 1977 - Chanel Cole, Australian singer
• 1979 - Ron Artest, American basketball player
• 1982 - Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
• 1982 - Samkon Gado, American football player

• 867 - St. Nicholas I, Pope
• 1004 - Abbon of Fleury, French Benedictine abbot
• 1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1031)
• 1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou
• 1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg
• 1314 - Albert the Degenerate, Landgrave of Thuringia
• 1345 - Constance of Penafiel, queen of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)
• 1359 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1326)
• 1460 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394)
• 1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
• 1619 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
• 1770 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
• 1771 - Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)
• 1862 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)
• 1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
• 1868 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
• 1903 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
• 1943 - Elsa Ciaparelli, Italian fashion designer
• 1952 - Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (b. 1910)
• 1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
• 1973 - Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
• 1974 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (b. 1946)
• 1975 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910)
• 1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
• 1988 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
• 1994 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
• 1997 - André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925)
• 2003 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (b. 1967)
• 2004 - John Balance, musician and artist (b. 1962)
• 2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)
• 2005 - Eddie Guerrero, Professional Wrestler (b. 1967)
• 2005 - Vine Deloria, Sioux Activist (b. 1933)

• Roman festivals - Iovis epulum; feast of Feronia
• R.C. Saints - Bricius of Tours; Mother Cabrini
• Also see November 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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