About November 13
November 13, 2020 is the 318th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 48 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 91 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 13
- 1002 –English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice’s Day massacre.
- 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.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery attack Montreal, Quebec, defended by British General Guy Carleton.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1947 –The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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