About November 13
November 13, 2023 is the 317th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 48 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 89 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.
- 1160 –Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
- 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.
- 1887 –Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
- 1941 –World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by GS U-81, sinking the following day.
- 1942 –World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
- 1947 –The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
- 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 –The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
- 1985 –Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida’s first Cuban-born mayor.
- 1990 –In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
- 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.
- 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 –The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
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