On this day: November 13

Events on November 13

• 1002 King Æthelred II ordered the massacre of all Danes in England. Wikipedia
• 1160 Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne. Wikipedia
• 1642 First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex. Wikipedia
• 1775 American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal. Wikipedia
• 1809 A British flotilla arrived at Ras Al Khaimah and launched an amphibious assault on the town, as a part of the Persian Gulf campaign of 1809. Wikipedia
• 1833 Great Meteor Storm of 1833. Wikipedia
• 1914 Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces at the Battle of El Herri in Morocco. Wikipedia
• 1927 The Holland Tunnel opened, connecting Manhattan with Jersey City under the Hudson River. Wikipedia
• 1940 Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. Wikipedia
• 1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal campaign. 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
• 1963 A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party. Wikipedia
• 1966 Arab–Israeli conflict: In response to a Fatah landmine incident, the Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu. 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
• 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six members of his family in Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville Horror and a subsequent media franchise. Wikipedia
• 1982 South Korean boxer Kim Duk-koo suffered fatal brain injuries during a match with American Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, leading to significant rule changes in the sport. Wikipedia
• 1985 The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people. Wikipedia
• 1989 Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father. Wikipedia
• 1991 The Republic of Karelia, an autonomous republic of Russia, is formed from the former Karelian ASSR. Wikipedia
• 1992 The High Court of Australia ruled in Dietrich v The Queen that, although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay in most circumstances in which an accused is unrepresented. 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
• 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 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
• 1813 Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Montenegrin metropolitan, philosopher, and poet (died 1851) 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
• 1899 Iskander Mirza, Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (died 1969) Wikipedia
• 1913 Lon Nol, Cambodian general and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 1985) Wikipedia
• 1934 Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (died 2016) Wikipedia
• 1938 Jean Seberg, American-French actress and singer (died 1979) Wikipedia
• 1940 Saul Kripke, American philosopher and academic (died 2022) Wikipedia
• 1947 Joe Mantegna, American actor and voice artist Wikipedia
• 1953 Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former President of Mexico 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, Somali-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
• 1143 Fulk, King of Jerusalem (born 1089) Wikipedia
• 1359 Ivan II of Moscow (born 1326) 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

Sources

• Wikipedia — “November 13” — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/November 13” — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikidata — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

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 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for November 13 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.