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On this day - November 13
1002 — English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in ...
1093 — Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, ...
1160 — Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.
1642 — First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist ...
1715 — Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces ...
1775 — American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under ...
1809 — A British flotilla arrived at Ras Al Khaimah and launched an ...
1833 — Great Meteor Storm of 1833.
1841 — James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by ...
1851 — The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the ...
1864 — American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ...
1887 — Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1893 — 13 November stabbing is committed by Léon Léauthier during the ...
1901 — The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster occurs, killing 9 of the 12 ...
1914 — Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of ...
1916 — World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is ...
1917 — World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in ...
1918 — World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital ...
1922 — The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations ...
1927 — The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River ...
1940 — Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first ...
1942 — World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ...
1947 — The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of ...
1950 — General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is ...
1954 — Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby ...
1956 — The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed a lower court ...
1965 — The SS Yarmouth Castle catches fire and sinks, killing 87.
1966 — All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea ...
1966 — In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank ...
1967 — The first of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, ...
1969 — Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a ...
1970 — Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (150 mph) tropical cyclone hits the ...
1982 — The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. ...
1982 — Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las ...
1985 — Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born ...
1985 — The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, ...
1989 — Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his ...
1990 — In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in ...
1991 — The Republic of Karelia, an autonomous republic of Russia, is ...
1992 — The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that ...
1993 — China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashes on approach to ...
1994 — In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European ...
1995 — Nigeria Airways Flight 357 crashes at Kaduna International ...
1995 — Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of ...
1996 — As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) ...
2000 — Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of ...
2001 — War on terror: In the first such act since World War II, US ...
2002 — Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN ...
2012 — A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the ...
2015 — Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated ...
2022 — A mass stabbing occurs in Moscow, Idaho in which four ...