On this day in History - Nov. 13

• 0354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo was born (d. 0430). North African theologian.
• 0867 - St. Nicholas I dies. Pope
• 1002 - English king Ethelred ordered killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
• 1004 - Abbon of Fleury dies. French Benedictine abbot
• 1093 - Malcolm III dies (b. 1031). King of Scotland.
• 1143 - Fulk dies. King of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou
• 1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg dies
• 1312 - King Edward III of England was born (d. 1377)
• 1314 - Albert the Degenerate dies. Landgrave of Thuringia
• 1345 - Constance of Penafiel dies (b. 1323). Queen of Pedro I of Portugal
• 1359 - Ivan II of Russia dies (b. 1326). Grand Prince of Moscovy
• 1460 - Prince Henry the Navigator dies (b. 1394). Portuguese patron of exploration
• 1486 - Johann Eck was born († 1543). German theologian.
• 1504 - Philipp I of Hesse was born (d. 1567)
• 1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali dies (b. 1530). Italian philologist and physician
• 1619 - Ludovico Carracci dies (b. 1555). Italian painter.
• 1710 - Charles Simon Favart was born (d. 1792). French dramatist.
• 1714 - William Shenstone was born (d. 1763). English poet.
• 1732 - John Dickinson was born (d. 1808). American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
• 1760 - Jiaqing was born (d. 1820). Emperor of China.
• 1761 - John Moore was born (d. 1809). British general.
• 1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen was born (d. 1844). Danish sculptor.
• 1770 - George Grenville dies (b. 1712). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1771 - Konrad Ernst Ackermann dies (b. 1712). German actor.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal defended by British Kingdom of Great Britain General Guy Carleton. Allen and his troups were disorganised and soundly defeated.
• 1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
• 1805 - Johann Georg Lehner invents the hot dog.
• 1807 - A família real portuguesa foge para o Brasil na sequência da invasão do país por tropas napoleónicas
• 1814 - Joseph Hooker was born (d. 1879). American General.
• 1826 - Charles Frederick Worth was born (d. 1895). English-born couturier.
• 1833 - Edwin Booth was born (d. 1893). American actor.
• 1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith was born (d. 1918). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
• 1841 - Edward Burd Grubb was born (d. 1913). American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General
• 1848 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco was born (d. 1922)
• 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson was born (d. 1894). Scottish writer.
• 1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.
• 1853 - John Drew Jr. was born (d. 1927). American actor.
• 1856 - Louis Brandeis was born (d. 1941). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1860 - Perú: Se promulga la constitución, siendo ésta la de más larga duración de la historia de Perú
• 1862 - Ludwig Uhland dies (b. 1787). German poet.
• 1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron dies (b. 1806). French archaeologist.
• 1868 - Gioacchino Rossini dies (b. 1792). Italian composer (Barber of Seville, William Tell)
• 1869 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams was born (d. 1962). Russian feminist.
• 1878 - Max Dehn was born (d. 1952). German mathematician.
• 1884 - José Rodrigues Maio dies (b. 1817). Portuguese fisher and lifeguard.
• 1885 - Anselmo José Braamcamp was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1886 - Mary Wigman was born (d. 1973). Dancer and choreographer.
• 1887 - Demonstrators demanding the release of William O'Brien from prison clash with police in central London on Bloody Sunday.
• 1897 - José Ângelo Cotinelli Telmo was born. Portuguese architect and film director.
• 1899 - Almeida Júnior dies (b. 1850). Brazilian painter.
• 1903 - Camille Pissarro dies (b. 10 Jul 1830). French Pointillist and Impressionist painter specialized in landscapes.
• 1906 - Hermione Baddeley was born (d. 1986). English actress.
• 1906 - Eva Zeisel was born. American industrial designer.
• 1908 - C. Vann Woodward was vorn (d. 1999). American historian.
• 1908 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1908 - Hermione Baddeley was born (d. 1986). English actress.
• 1909 - Ballinger-Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's magazine accuses US Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
• 1910 - William Bradford Huie was born (d. 1986). American journalist, editor, publisher and author.
• 1913 - Helen Mack was born (d. 1986). American actress.
• 1913 - Alexander Scourby was born (d. 1985). American actor.
• 1913 - O prémio Nobel da Literatura é atribuido a Rabindranath Tagore, pela sua obra "Gitanjali".
• 1914 - Alberto Lattuada was born (d. 2005). Italian film director.
• 1916 - Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
• 1918 - Jack Elam was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1922 - Jack Narz was born. American game show host.
• 1922 - Oskar Werner was born (d. 1984). Austrian actor.
• 1924 - Linda Christian was born. Mexican-born actress.
• 1924 - Motoo Kimura was born (d. 1994). Japanese geneticist.
• 1927 - Madeleine Sherwood was born. Actress.
• 1928 - Steve Bilko was born (d. 1978). Baseball player.
• 1929 - Fred Phelps, leader of the Westboro Baptist Church
• 1931 - Andrée Lachapelle, French Canadian actress
• 1932 - Francisco Lagos Cházaro dies (20 Sep 1878). Mexican politician.
• 1933 - Adrienne Corri was born. Actress
• 1934 - Garry Marshall was born. American producer, director, writer, and actor
• 1935 - Tom Atkins was born. American actor
• 1935 - George Carey was born. Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1938 - Jean Seberg was born (d. 1979). American actress.
• 1938 - Gérald Godin was born (d. 1994). Québécois poet and politician.
• 1939 - Idris Muhammad was born. American jazz drummer
• 1940 - Daniel Pilon was born. Québécois film and television actor
• 1940 - The animated feature-length film Fantasia is released.
• 1941 - Mel Stottlemyre was born. Baseball player and coach
• 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, she sinks on November 14.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese heavy cruiser BB- Hiei.
• 1942 - John Hammond was born. American musician
• 1943 - André-Gilles Fortin was born (d. 1977). French Canadian politician.
• 1944 - Timmy Thomas was born. American singer, keyboardist and songwriter
• 1945 - Ethiopy and Panamá are admitted as member of ONU
• 1945 - Charles de Gaulle was elected president of France.
• 1945 - Ahmed Sukarno assumes the Presidency of Indonesia.
• 1947 - Joe Mantegna was born. American actor
• 1947 - Abade de Baçal was born. Portuguese historian and archeologist.
• 1949 - Whoopi Goldberg, [Caryn Johnson] was born in New York City. Actress (Color Purple, Burglar, Ghost).
• 1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assasinated in Caracas.
• 1950 - Mary Lou Metzger was born. American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
• 1950 - Gilbert Perreault was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 - Frances Conroy was born. American actress
• 1952 - Margaret Wise Brown dies (b. 1910). American children's author.
• 1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• 1954 - Scott McNealy was born. CEO of Sun Microsystems
• 1954 - Chris Noth was born. American actor
• 1954 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist dies (b. 1881). German field marshal.
• 1955 - Whoopi Goldberg was born. American actress, comedienne, and singer
• 1956 - United States Supreme Court declared Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1956 - Ginger Alden was born. American actress
• 1957 - Rui Teles Palhinha dies (b. 1871). Portuguese (Azores) botanic
• 1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.
• 1960 - A fire at a movie theater in Amude, Syria, kills 152 people.
• 1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
• 1963 - Vinny Testaverde was born. American football player.
• 1964 - Steve Wong Ka-Keung was born. Hong Kong singer, songwriter, composer and the bassist of the Hong Kong rock band Beyond
• 1965 - The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
• 1967 - Jimmy Kimmel was born. American comedian and talk-show host
• 1967 - Harriet Cohen dies (b. 1895). English pianist.
• 1968 - Pat Hentgen was born. Baseball player
• 1969 - Gerard Butler was born. Scottish actor
• 1969 - Lori Berenson was born. U.S. journalist.
• 1969 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born. Somali-Dutch feminist, politician and critic of Islam
• 1969 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death."
• 1970 - Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
• 1970 - 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-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, has become the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.
• 1972 - Takuya Kimura was born. Japanese singer and actor.
• 1972 - Ugo Ehiogu was born. English football player.
• 1973 - Lila Lee dies (b. 1901). American actress.
• 1974 - Vittorio De Sica dies (b. 1901). Italian film director.
• 1974 - Karen Silkwood dies (b. 1946). American activist.
• 1974 - Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood's car is forced off the road while she is travelling to an interview with New York Times reporter David Burnham. Her files are missing from the carwreck; an FBI investigation later concludes accident, but is not generally believed to have been impartial.
• 1974 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his family in Amityville, New York (Amityville Horror)
• 1974 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat gives a landmark address to the United Nations General Assembly
• 1975 - Joaquim Manuel Sampaio Silva «Quim» was born in V.N. Famalicão. Portuguese football player (goalkeeper of Benfica).
• 1975 - Olga Berggolts dies (b. 1910). Russian poet.
• 1976 - Hiroshi Tanahashi was born. Japanese professional wrestler
• 1977 - Chanel Cole was born. Australian singer
• 1978 - Nikolai Fraiture was born. Bass player for NYC based band The Strokes
• 1979 - Subliminal was born. Israeli rapper and producer
• 1979 - Ron Artest was born. American basketball player
• 1980 - Monique Coleman was born. American actress
• 1981 - The first Friday the 13th event held by motorcyclists in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.
• 1981 - O cineasta português Fonseca e Costa ganha o Prémio do Instituto Português de Cinema com o filme Kilas, o Mau da Fita.
• 1981 - Mark Cardona was born. Filipino basketball player
• 1982 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Kim Duk Koo. Kim's death on November 17 led 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.
• 1982 - Kumi Koda was born. Japanese singer
• 1982 - Samkon Gado was born. American football player
• 1982 - Hugues Lapointe dies (b. 1911). French Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec.
• 1984 - Daniel Yeboah was born. Ivory Coast football player (goalkeeper)
• 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 Suarez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
• 1986 - Thierry Le Luron dies (b. 1952). French humorist.
• 1988 - Antal Dorati dies (b. 1906). Hungarian conductor.
• 1988 - Jaromír Vejvoda dies (b. 1902). Czech composer.
• 1989 - Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush during a White House ceremony.
• 1989 - Victor Davis dies (b. 1964). Canadian olympic swimmer.
• 1990 - The World Wide Web first began.
• 1991 - Beauty and The Beast is released in theatres
• 1991 - Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger dies (b. 1904). Archbishop of Montreal
• 1993 - Pakistan's Foreign Minister Farooq Leghari was chosen president
• 1994 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
• 1994 - Fórmula 1: Michael Schumacher wins his first World Championship in Australian Grand Prix.
• 1994 - Motoo Kimura dies (b. 1924). Japanese geneticist.
• 1996 - Swami Rama dies (b. 1925). Himalayan yoga master.
• 1996 - Bill Doggett dies (b. 1916). American pianist and organist.
• 1997 - André Boucourechliev dies (b. 1925). French composer.
• 1997 - Dawud M. Mu'Min dies (b. 1953). American convicted murderer.
• 1998 - Michel Trudeau dies (b. 1975). Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau.
• 1998 - Edwige Feuillère dies (b. 1907). French film actress.
• 1998 - Niklas Luhmann dies. German sociologist.
• 2000 - Philippines President Joseph Estrada is impeached by the Philippine House of Representatives, on charges that he received millions of dollars in payoffs from illegal gambling operators and tobacco taxes.
• 2001 - Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.
• 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 any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
• 2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
• The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
• 2002 - Some 200 people were feared dead after 19 boats disappeared in a storm off Bangladesh.
• 2003 - Kellie Waymire dies (b. 1967). American actress.
• 2004 - John Balance dies (b. 1962). Musician and artist.
• 2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard dies (b. 1968). American rapper.
• 2004 - Harry Lampert dies at 88. Illustrator who created the D.C. Comics superhero The Flash
• 2005 - Chicago Bears cornerback Nathan Vasher returns a missed field goal 108 yards
• 2005 - Eddie Guerrero dies (b. 1967). Mexican-born professional wrestler.
• 2005 - Vine Deloria, Jr. dies (b. 1933). Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist.
• 2006 - Pope Benedict XVI [16 Apr 1927~] declares Blessed: Charles de Foucauld [15 Sep 1858 – 01 Dec 1916], Maria Pia Mastena [07 Dec 1881 – 28 Jun 1951], and Maria Crocifissa Curcio [30 Jan 1877 – 04 Jul 1957].
• Cayman Islands: Remembrance Day
• Roman festivals - Iovis epulum; feast of Feronia
• R.C. Saints - Bricius of Tours; Mother Cabrini; Saint Homobonus