Events on November 13 43
Year 1002
English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
Year 1093
Battle of Alnwick English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are slain.
Year 1553
After the suppression of Wyatt's rebellion, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Lady Jane Grey and three others are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Queen Mary I of England.
Year 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.
Year 1775
American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.
Year 1841
James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
Year 1851
The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
Year 1914
Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
Year 1916
Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
Year 1927
The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
Year 1940
Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
Year 1941
World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
Year 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.
Year 1947
The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
Year 1950
General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
Year 1954
Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
Year 1956
The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Year 1966
In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
Year 1969
Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
Year 1970
Bhola cyclone: A 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.
Year 1974
Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
Year 1982
Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
Year 1982
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
Year 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.
Year 1986
The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
Year 1989
Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
Year 1990
In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.
Year 1992
The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
Year 1995
A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
Year 2000
Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
Year 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.
Year 2002
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
Year 2011
Mario Monti accepted to become the 54th Prime Minister of Italy with the ouster of Silvio Berlusconi, who failed to tackle Italy's debt crisis.
Year 2015
A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th and 11th arrondissements kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.