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What Happened on November 13th This Day in History

Year Name
2015 Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.
2013 Hawaii legalizes same-sex marriage.
2013 4 World Trade Center officially opens.
2012 A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.
2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 During the Prestige oil spill, a storm bursts a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige, which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002, off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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.
2000 Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
1995 Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
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.
1995 Nigeria Airways Flight 357 crashes at Kaduna International Airport in Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 11 people and injuring 66.
1994 In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
1993 China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashes on approach to Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport in Ürümqi, China, killing 12 people.
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.
1991 The Republic of Karelia, an autonomous republic of Russia, is formed from the former Karelian ASSR.
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.
1989 Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
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.
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.
1970 Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (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.
1969 Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
1966 In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
1966 All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea near Matsuyama Airport in Japan, killing 50 people.
1956 The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.
1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1947 The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
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.
1941 World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
1940 Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow.
1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1922 The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.
1918 World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1917 World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in Italy known as the "First Battle of the Piave"). The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, despite help from the German Alpenkorps and numerical superiority, will fail their offensive against the Italian Army now led by its new chief of staff Armando Diaz.
1916 World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
1914 Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
1901 The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1864 American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ends in a Union rout as Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge pursue them to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee.
1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1833 Great Meteor Storm of 1833
1775 American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.
1715 Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive.
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.
1160 Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.
1093 Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are killed.
1002 English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
Famous People Born on November 13

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Year Name
1493 William IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1550)
1942 John P. Hammond, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983 Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (d. 2012)
1932 Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
1906 Hermione Baddeley, English actress (d. 1986)
1699 Jan Zach, Czech violinist, organist, and composer (d. 1773)
1917 Vasantdada Patil, Indian farmer and politician, 9th Governor of Rajasthan (d. 1989)
1935 George Carey, English archbishop and theologian
1854 George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer and educator (d. 1931)
1928 Hampton Hawes, American pianist and author (d. 1977)
Famous People Deaths On November 13

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Date Name
1932 Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) (b. 1878)
1093 Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1031)
1994 Jack Baker, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1947)
1002 Pallig, Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire
1996 Bill Doggett, American pianist and composer (b. 1916)
1993 Rufus R. Jones, American wrestler (b. 1933)
1345 Constance of Peñafiel, queen of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)
1952 Margaret Wise Brown, American author (b. 1910)
2001 Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter (b. 1915)
1929 Princess Viktoria of Prussia (b. 1866)