On this day: November 13

Events on November 13

• 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. Wikipedia
• 1775 American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal. Wikipedia
• 1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle. Wikipedia
• 1864 American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ends in a Union rout as Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge pursue them to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. Wikipedia
• 1916 World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription. Wikipedia
• 1918 World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Wikipedia
• 1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. Wikipedia
• 1940 Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. Wikipedia
• 1940 Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow. Wikipedia
• 1945 FC Dynamo Moscow opened their exhibition tour of the United Kingdom with a 3–3 draw against Chelsea, breaking the attendance record for a British club football match. Wikipedia
• 1947 The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. Wikipedia
• 1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas. Wikipedia
• 1956 The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed a lower court ruling that invalidated Alabama laws requiring segregated buses, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott. Wikipedia
• 1969 Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death. Wikipedia
• 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (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. Wikipedia
• 1982 Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 18) leads to significant changes in the sport. Wikipedia
• 1985 Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1994 In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union. Wikipedia
• 1995 Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire. Wikipedia
• 2000 Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. Wikipedia
• 2001 War on terror: 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. Wikipedia
• 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Wikipedia
• 2012 A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific. Wikipedia
• 2015 Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War. Wikipedia
• 2015 Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others. Wikipedia

Born on November 13

• 354 Augustine of Hippo, Roman bishop and theologian (died 430) Wikipedia
• 1312 Edward III of England (died 1377) Wikipedia
• 1780 Ranjit Singh, Sikh emperor (died 1839) Wikipedia
• 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (died 1894) Wikipedia
• 1893 Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986) Wikipedia
• 1894 Arthur Nebe, German SS officer (died 1945) Wikipedia
• 1899 Iskander Mirza, Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (died 1969) Wikipedia
• 1934 Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (died 2016) Wikipedia
• 1940 Saul Kripke, American philosopher and academic (died 2022) Wikipedia
• 1947 Joe Mantegna, American actor and voice artist Wikipedia
• 1952 Merrick Garland, American jurist, 86th United States Attorney General Wikipedia
• 1953 Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former President of Mexico Wikipedia
• 1954 Scott McNealy, American businessman, co-founded Sun Microsystems Wikipedia
• 1955 Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host Wikipedia
• 1957 Greg Abbott, American politician, 48th Governor of Texas Wikipedia
• 1967 Steve Zahn, American actor and singer Wikipedia
• 1967 Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, and talk show host Wikipedia
• 1967 Juhi Chawla, Indian actress, singer, and producer, Miss India 1984 Wikipedia
• 1969 Gerard Butler, Scottish actor Wikipedia
• 1969 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somalian-American activist and author Wikipedia
• 1999 Lando Norris, British-Belgian race car driver Wikipedia
• 2002 Emma Raducanu, British tennis player Wikipedia

Died on November 13

• 867 Pope Nicholas I (born 800) Wikipedia
• 1093 Malcolm III of Scotland (born 1031) Wikipedia
• 1154 Iziaslav II of Kiev, Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (born c. 1097) Wikipedia
• 1345 Constance of Peñafiel, queen of Pedro I of Portugal (born 1323) Wikipedia
• 1460 Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (born 1394) Wikipedia
• 1770 George Grenville, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1712) Wikipedia
• 1862 Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (born 1787) Wikipedia
• 1868 Gioachino Rossini, Italian pianist and composer (born 1792) Wikipedia
• 1903 Camille Pissarro, Virgin Islander-French painter (born 1830) Wikipedia
• 1954 Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (born 1881) Wikipedia
• 1969 Iskander Mirza, Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (born 1899) Wikipedia
• 1974 Vittorio De Sica, Italian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1901) Wikipedia
• 2002 Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1925) Wikipedia
• 2014 Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (born 1928) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

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

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “November 13” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.