November 13 facts for kids

November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 48 days remain until the end of the year.

November 13 is a day filled with many interesting historical events, important births, and notable deaths throughout history. From ancient battles to modern discoveries, this date has seen a lot happen around the world. Let's explore some of the key moments and people connected to November 13.

Events

Early History (Before 1600)

• 1002 – English King Æthelred II ordered the killing of all Danes in England. This event is known as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
• 1093 – The Battle of Alnwick took place. The English won against the Scots, and Malcolm III of Scotland and his son Edward were killed.
• 1160 – Louis VII of France married Adela of Champagne.

Later History (1601–1900)

• 1642 – During the First English Civil War, the Royalist forces pulled back from the Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green. This meant they failed to capture London.
• 1715 – In Scotland, the Jacobite rising saw the Battle of Sheriffmuir. The forces of Great Britain stopped the Jacobite advance, though the battle didn't have a clear winner.
• 1775 – During the American Revolutionary War, American revolutionary forces led by General Richard Montgomery took control of Montreal.
• 1833 – A spectacular meteor shower happened, known as the Great Meteor Storm of 1833.
• 1841 – James Braid first saw a demonstration of animal magnetism. This led him to study the topic he later called hypnotism.
• 1851 – The Denny Party landed at Alki Point. They later moved to what would become Seattle.
• 1864 – In the American Civil War, the three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ended. Union forces were defeated by Confederates led by Major General John C. Breckinridge.
• 1887 – The Bloody Sunday clashes took place in central London.

Modern History (1901–Present)

• 1914 – In the Zaian War, Berber tribesmen caused a major defeat for French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
• 1916 – During World War I, Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes was removed from the Labor Party. This happened because he supported conscription, which is forcing people to join the military.
• 1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Monte Grappa began in Italy. The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces failed in their attack against the Italian Army.
• 1918 – World War I: Allied troops took control of Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1922 – The U.S. Supreme Court supported laws that required vaccinations for public school students in the case Zucht v. King.
• 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opened. It was the first vehicle tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting New Jersey to New York City.
• 1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia was first shown at New York's Broadway Theatre.
• 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal was hit by a torpedo from U-81. It sank the next day.
• 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal happened. U.S. and Japanese ships fought a close and intense naval battle during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• 1947 – The Soviet Union finished developing the AK-47. This was one of the first true assault rifles.
• 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, the President of Venezuela, died in Caracas.
• 1954 – Great Britain defeated France to win the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris.
• 1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declared that Alabama laws requiring separate buses for different races were illegal. This ended the Montgomery bus boycott.
• 1966 – Israel launched an attack on the village of As-Samu in response to raids by Fatah near the West Bank border.
• 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashed into the Seto Inland Sea near Matsuyama Airport in Japan. Fifty people were killed.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. held a symbolic March Against Death.
• 1970 – The Bhola cyclone, a very strong tropical cyclone, hit the Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan. It caused the deaths of an estimated 500,000 people.
• 1982 – Ray Mancini won a boxing match against Duk Koo Kim in Las Vegas. Kim's death a few days later led to big changes in the sport.
• 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted. It melted a glacier, causing a huge mudslide that buried Armero, Colombia. About 23,000 people died in the disaster.
• 1989 – Hans-Adam II became the new Prince of Liechtenstein after his father passed away.
• 1994 – In a referendum, voters in Sweden decided to join the European Union.
• 1995 – Mozambique became the first country to join the Commonwealth of Nations without ever having been part of the former British Empire.
• 2001 – War on Terror: U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order. This allowed military tribunals against foreigners suspected of terrorist acts against the United States.
• 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agreed to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
• 2002 – During the Prestige oil spill, a storm caused a tank on the oil tanker MV Prestige to burst. The ship later sank off the coast of Galicia, spilling a huge amount of heavy fuel oil.
• 2012 – A total solar eclipse could be seen in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.
• 2013 – Hawaii made same-sex marriage legal.
• 2013 – 4 World Trade Center officially opened.
• 2015 – Islamic State members carried out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris. These attacks resulted in the deaths of 130 people.

Births

Born Before 1600

• 354 – Augustine of Hippo, an important Roman bishop and thinker.
• 1312 – Edward III of England, a famous English king.
• 1486 – Johann Eck, a German theologian and scholar.
• 1559 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, who governed the Low Countries.
• 1572 – Cyril Lucaris, a Greek patriarch and theologian.

Born Between 1601 and 1900

• 1715 – Dorothea Erxleben, the first female medical doctor in Germany.
• 1732 – John Dickinson, an American lawyer and politician.
• 1760 – Jiaqing Emperor of China.
• 1780 – Ranjit Singh, a Sikh emperor.
• 1809 – John A. Dahlgren, an American admiral.
• 1813 – Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, a Montenegrin philosopher and poet.
• 1833 – Edwin Booth, a famous American actor.
• 1848 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco.
• 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, a well-known Scottish novelist and poet.
• 1856 – Louis Brandeis, an American lawyer and judge.
• 1866 – Abraham Flexner, an American educator who founded the Institute for Advanced Study.
• 1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, an American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner.
• 1894 – Bennie Moten, an American pianist and bandleader.
• 1899 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan.

Born After 1900

• 1906 – Hermione Baddeley, an English actress.
• 1906 – Eva Zeisel, a Hungarian-American potter and designer.
• 1908 – C. Vann Woodward, an American historian and author.
• 1911 – Buck O'Neil, an American baseball player and manager.
• 1913 – Lon Nol, a Cambodian general and politician.
• 1914 – Amelia Bence, an Argentinian actress.
• 1920 – Jack Elam, an American actor.
• 1922 – Oskar Werner, an Austrian-German actor.
• 1924 – Motoo Kimura, a Japanese biologist and geneticist.
• 1926 – Harry Hughes, an American politician and Governor of Maryland.
• 1928 – Hampton Hawes, an American jazz pianist.
• 1929 – Fred Phelps, an American pastor and activist.
• 1931 – Adrienne Corri, a Scottish actress.
• 1932 – Richard Mulligan, an American actor.
• 1934 – Peter Arnett, a New Zealand-American journalist.
• 1934 – Garry Marshall, an American actor, director, and producer.
• 1935 – George Carey, an English archbishop.
• 1938 – Jean Seberg, an American-French actress and singer.
• 1940 – Saul Kripke, an American philosopher.
• 1941 – David Green, an American businessman who founded Hobby Lobby.
• 1947 – Joe Mantegna, an American actor.
• 1948 – Humayun Ahmed, a popular Bengali writer and filmmaker.
• 1951 – Pini Gershon, an Israeli basketball coach.
• 1952 – Merrick Garland, an American judge and Attorney General.
• 1953 – Frances Conroy, an American actress.
• 1953 – Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the current President of Mexico.
• 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg, a famous American actress, comedian, and talk show host.
• 1956 – Rex Linn, an American actor.
• 1957 – Greg Abbott, the current Governor of Texas.
• 1959 – Caroline Goodall, an English actress.
• 1960 – Neil Flynn, an American actor.
• 1963 – Vinny Testaverde, an American football player.
• 1967 – Juhi Chawla, an Indian actress and former Miss India.
• 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel, an American comedian and talk show host.
• 1967 – Steve Zahn, an American actor.
• 1969 – Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalian-American activist and author.
• 1969 – Gerard Butler, a Scottish actor.
• 1972 – Takuya Kimura, a Japanese singer.
• 1972 – Samantha Riley, an Australian swimmer.
• 1975 – Aisha Hinds, an American actress.
• 1976 – Kelly Sotherton, an English sprinter and long jumper.
• 1977 – Huang Xiaoming, a Chinese actor and singer.
• 1978 – Nikolai Fraiture, an American bass player.
• 1979 – Metta Sandiford-Artest, an American basketball player.
• 1980 – Monique Coleman, an American actress and dancer.
• 1982 – Kumi Koda, a Japanese singer.
• 1984 – Lucas Barrios, a Paraguayan footballer.
• 1985 – Asdrúbal Cabrera, a Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1986 – Kevin Bridges, a Scottish comedian.
• 1987 – Dana Vollmer, an American swimmer.
• 1991 – Devon Bostick, a Canadian actor.
• 1993 – Julia Michaels, an American singer and songwriter.
• 1999 – Lando Norris, a British-Belgian race car driver.
• 2002 – Emma Raducanu, a British tennis player.
• 2002 – Giovanni Reyna, an American soccer player.

Deaths

Died Before 1600

• 867 – Pope Nicholas I.
• 1002 – Pallig, a Danish chieftain, and his wife Gunhilde.
• 1093 – Malcolm III of Scotland, a Scottish king.
• 1143 – Fulk, King of Jerusalem.
• 1460 – Prince Henry the Navigator, a Portuguese prince known for supporting exploration.

Died Between 1601 and 1900

• 1619 – Ludovico Carracci, an Italian painter.
• 1650 – Thomas May, an English poet and historian.
• 1770 – George Grenville, a former Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• 1862 – Ludwig Uhland, a German poet and historian.
• 1868 – Gioachino Rossini, a famous Italian composer.
• 1883 – J. Marion Sims, an American physician.

Died After 1900

• 1903 – Camille Pissarro, a French painter.
• 1921 – Ignác Goldziher, a Hungarian scholar of Islam.
• 1942 – Daniel J. Callaghan, an American admiral.
• 1952 – Margaret Wise Brown, a well-known American author of children's books.
• 1954 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, a German field marshal.
• 1969 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan.
• 1974 – Vittorio De Sica, an Italian actor and director.
• 1974 – Karen Silkwood, an American technician and activist.
• 1988 – Antal Doráti, a Hungarian-American conductor and composer.
• 1989 – Victor Davis, a Canadian swimmer.
• 1989 – Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein.
• 1994 – Motoo Kimura, a Japanese biologist and geneticist.
• 1998 – Red Holzman, an American basketball player and coach.
• 2004 – Ol' Dirty ..., an American rapper.
• 2005 – Eddie Guerrero, an American wrestler.
• 2014 – María José Alvarado, a Honduran model and Miss Honduras 2014.
• 2016 – Leon Russell, an American singer-songwriter.
• 2017 – Bobby Doerr, an American baseball player and manager.

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Agostina Livia Pietrantoni
  • Brice of Tours
  • Didacus (Diego) of Alcalá
  • Eugenius II of Toledo
  • Frances Xavier Cabrini
  • Homobonus
  • John Chrysostom (Eastern Orthodox, Repose)
  • Quintian of Rodez
  • Saints of the Benedictine family
  • Saints of the Premonstratensian Order
  • Stanislaus Kostka
  • Charles Simeon (Church of England)
  • The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi (Georgian Orthodox Church)
• Sadie Hawkins Day (United States)
• World Kindness Day

See also

In Spanish: 13 de noviembre para niños