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November 13
(Redirected from 13 November)
November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining.
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Events
1700-1899
1900-1999
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1909 - Ballinger-Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's magazine accuses US Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
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1940 - The animated feature-length film Fantasia is released.
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1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, she sinks on November 14.
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1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese heavy cruiser BB- Hiei.
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1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
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1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage is still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.
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1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
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1969 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death ."
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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).
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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 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat gives a landmark address to the United Nations General Assembly.
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1981 - The first Friday the 13th event held by motorcyclists in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
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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.
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1990 - The first known World Wide Web page is written.
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1994 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
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Births
300-1899
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354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, theologian (d. 430)
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1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
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1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
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1714 - William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
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1715 - Dorothea Christiane Erxleben , Germany's first female physician (d. 1762)
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1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (d. 1844)
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1792 - Edward Trelawny , English writer (d. 1881)
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1826 - Charles Frederick Worth, couturier (d. 1895)
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1833 - Edwin Booth, actor (d. 1893)
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1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
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1848 - Albert I of Monaco (d. 1922)
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1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (d. 1894)
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1856 - Louis Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1941)
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1869 - Helene Stöcker , pacifist (d. 1943)
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1886 - Mary Wigman, dancer, choreographer (d. 1973)
1900-1999
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1908 - Hermione Baddeley, actress(d. 1986)
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1916 - Jack Elam , American actor (d. 2003)
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1922 - Oskar Werner, actor (d. 1984)
- 1922 - Jack Narz, game show host
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1924 - Motoo Kimura, population geneticist
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1933 - Peter Härtling , writer and publisher
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1934 - Garry Marshall, producer, director, writer, actor
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1938 - Jean Seberg, actress (d. 1979)
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1942 - John Hammond, blues musician
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1947 - Joe Mantegna, actor
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1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, actress, comedienne, singer
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1963 - Vinny Testaverde, American football quarterback
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1968 - Pat Hentgen, baseball player
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1972 - Kimura Takuya, Japanese singer/actor
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1977 - Chanel Cole, singer (was on Australian Idol)
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1979 - Ron Artest, basketball player
Deaths
800-1899
1900-1999
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1937 - Mrs. Leslie Carter nee Caroline Dudley, Broadway star (b. 1862)
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1939 - Lois Weber , director, actress, and screenwriter
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1952 - Margaret Wise Brown, children's author
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1967 - Harriet Cohen, pianist
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1973 - Bryan Stanley Johnson , British novelist, poet, filmmaker
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1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italin film director
- 1974 - Karen Silkwood, union activist
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1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
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1994 - Motoo Kimura, population geneticist
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
November 12 - November 14 - October 13 - December 13 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 02-09-2005 08:51:58
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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