13th
November, on this day
867 St Nicholas
I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1002 St.
Brice's Day massacre : English king Ethelred
II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1160 Marriage of Louis
VII of France with Adele
of Champagne
1642 At the Battle
of Turnham Green of the First
English Civil War the Royalist forces withdraw in face of the
Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1775 American Revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan
Allen capture Montreal
1789 Ben
Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes"
1830 Oliver
Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"
1839 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1841 James
Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads
to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
1843 Mt
Rainier in Washington State erupts
1851 The start of a telegraphic service between London and Paris
1851 The Denny
Party lands at Alki
Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington.
1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1865 PT
Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1887 'Bloody
Sunday' in London when violence erupts in Trafalgar Square at
a Socialist rally attended by Irish agitators
1907 French cyclist Paul
Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St
Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1909
Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard
Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1914 Brassiere is patented in the United States by heiress Mary
Phelps Jacob. Previously women had worn a version of the child's
liberty bodice to protect them when playing sport
1916 End of the Battle
of Somme in which 400,000 British troops were killed or injured
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.
1921 "The
Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific
Treaty
1927 In US, NY-NJ
Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1930 Discovery of planet Pluto
1933 In US, 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel
meat packers, Austin, MN
1936
Edward VIII tells British Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin he intends to marry American divorcee Mrs Wallis Simpson
1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia"
released
1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark
Royal" is torpedoed in the Mediterranean by U 81, sinking
the next day.
1942 British forces retake Tobruk in North Africa from the Germans
1942 Naval
Battle of Guadalcanal : U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense,
close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1942 In US, Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 1st artificial
snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1947 In Britain, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh
Dalton resigns after admitting he had disclosed tax proposals
to a reporter several minutes before presenting his Budget to the
House of Commons
1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby
League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1956 United States Supreme Court declares Alabama and Montgomery,
Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal; thus ending the Montgomery
Bus Boycott
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude, Spain)
1960 Sammy
Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May
Britt
1965 "Yarmouth
Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1969 In US, VicepPresident Spiro
T Agnew accused network TV news depths of bias and distortion
1969 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.
1970 Lt Gen Hafez
al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1971 Mariner
9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1978 NASA launches HEAO
1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
1982 Korean boxer Duk
Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Vietnam
War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1985 Nevado
del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1985 Xavier
Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1987 In Britain, a rapist is jailed for eight years at Bristol Crown
Court after being convicted on evidence based on genetic
fingerprinting
1990 Aramoana
Massacre : In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shot
dead 13 people
1994 Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
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 Manuel
B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine
President Joseph
Estrada
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 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
2002 The oil tanker Prestige
sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill
2007 An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives
of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including
Congressman Wahab
Akbar, and wounding six.
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 13th:
354 St Augustine
of Hippo Numidia, Algeria, convert/Christian philosopher
1312 Edward III king of England (1327-77)
1792 Edward John Trelawney England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger
Son)
1831 James Maxwell Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity)
1833 Edwin Thomas Booth US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
1838 Joseph F Smith 6th President of Mormon church
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
1854 George Whitefield Chadwick Lowell MA, composer (Judi Van Winke)
1856 Louis D Brandeis Massachusetts, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
1882 John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall)
1898 Earl Sande jockey (Hall of Famer)
19-- Aldo Nova rocker (Blood on the Bricks)
19-- Daniel Pilon Montreal Canada, actor (Nick-Hamptons)
19-- J.A. Preston Washington DC, actor (Mayor Cleveland-Hill St Blues)
19-- Tom Atkins Pittsburgh PA, actor (Lt Diehl-Rockford Files)
1906 Conrad Thibault Northbridge MA, singer (Jacques Fray Music Room)
1906 Hermione Baddeley England, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good
Life)
1915 Howard Cooke Jamaica, (1991 Mico Gold Medal Award)
1916 Jack Elam Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo)
1917 Robert Sterling Newcastle PA, actor (George Kirby-Adv of Topper)
1922 Jack Narz Louisville KY, TV gameshow host (Dotto, Video Village)
1922 Madeleine Sherwood Montreal, actress (Mother Superior-Flying
Nun)
1922 Oskar Werner film actor/director (Shoes of the Fisherman, Das
Ekel)
1923 Linda Christian Tampico, Mexico, actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle
Zone)
1930 Fred Harris (Sen-D-Oklahoma)
1932 Olga Fikotova Czech, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1956)
1932 Richard Mulligan Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus)
1933 Adrienne Corri Glasgow Scotland, actress (River, Dr Zhivago)
1938 Jean Seberg Marshaltown Iowa, actress (Breathless, Paint Your
Wagon)
1941 Dack Rambo Delano CA, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas)
1941 Mel Stottlemyre Wash, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach (NY
Met)
1942 Beth Brickell Camden Arkansas, actress (Gentle Ben)
1943 John Paul Hammond NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads)
1947 Joe Mantegna Chicago IL, actor (House of Games, Weeds)
1948 Sheila Frazier NYC, actress (Gloria-Lazarus Syndrome)
1949 Terry Reid guitarist (River, Bang Bang You're Terry Reid)
1949 Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], NYC, actress (Color Purple,
Burglar)
1953 Tracy Scoggins Galveston TX, actress (Colbys, Gumshoe Kid)
1971 John Francis Zingg Boston MA, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun
Boys)
1972 Shom-Rock rocker (Young Nation)
1972 T-Haxx rocker (DYC)
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Deaths which occurred on November 13th:
867 St Nicholas I (the Great) pope (858-67), dies
1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1687 Death of
actress Nell Gwynn aged 37 - mistress of King Charles II of England
1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies
at 76
1961 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies
at 56
1984 Dorothy Arnold actress, dies at 66
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