November 13
November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining.
Events:
- 1775 - United States revolutionary forces capture Montreal
- 1941 - Unterseeboot 81 sinks British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
- 1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastniy succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB).
- 1971 - Mariner 9 reaches Mars.
- 1982 - Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a bout that changes the landscape of boxing forever.
- 1985 - A mudslide buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
- 2001 - World Trade Organization ends a four day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar (known as the Doha Round).
- 2001 - Kathleen Soliah (Sara Jane Olsen) withdraws her previous guilty plea.
- 2002 - Iraq agrees to the UN Security Council resolution on Iraq
Births:
- 354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, theologian (+ 430)
- 1312 - King Edward III of England
- 1715 - Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Germany's first female physician (+ 1762)
- 1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (+ 1844)
- 1833 - Edwin Booth, actor
- 1848 - Albert I of Monaco, (+ 1922)
- 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (+ 1894)
- 1856 - Louis Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- 1869 - Helene Stöcker, pacifist (+ 1943)
- 1886 - Mary Wigman, dancer, choreographer (+ 1973)
- 1922 - Oskar Werner, actor (+ 1984)
- 1856 - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court justice
- 1916 - Jack Elam, ctor
- 1922 - Jack Narz, game show host
- 1933 - Peter Härtling, writer and publisher
- 1934 - Garry Marshall, producer, director, writer, actor
- 1938 - Jean Seberg, actress (+ 1979)
- 1947 - Joe Mantegna, actor
- 1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, actress, comedienne
Deaths:
- 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
- 1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italin film director
- 1974 - Karen Silkwood, union activist
Holidays and Observances:
Interesting but unimportant:
- 2002 - Former NBA basketball player Manute Bol, 7 foot 7 (91 inches) tall, gets signed to join an ice hockey team, setting his sights on possibly becoming the first African in the NHL in the future.
See Also:
November 12 - November 14 - October 13 - December 13 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December