About November 13
November 13, 2024 is the 318th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 48 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 77 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 13
- 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 Elliot Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
- 1864 –The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
- 1887 –Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by GS U-81, sinking the following day.
- 1950 –General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
- 1956 –The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 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, 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. This is regarded as the 20th century’s worst natural disaster.
- 1971 –The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
- 1982 –Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim’s subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
- 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.
- 1986 –The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
- 1988 –Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
- 1990 –In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
- 1994 –In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
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