November 13

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on November 13. From 1900 until now. November 13 is under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Gerard Butler (1969), Whoopi Goldberg (1955) and Jimmy Kimmel (1967). Several movies were released around November 13 over the years, such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 directed by Steven Spielberg and Malcolm X in 1992 directed by Spike Lee.
But much more happened on November 13 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Roman festivals - Iovis epulum; feast of Feronia
R.C. Saints - Bricius of Tours; Mother Cabrini; Saint Homobonus
Also see November 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Events

2018 Amazon HQ2: Amazon announces it will split their second headquarters in New York City and National Landing in northern Virginia (outside Washington D.C.) (CNN)
2017 Border incidents involving North Korea: A Korean People's Army soldier defects to South Korea via the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). He was shot and injured by fellow North Korean soldiers as he crossed to the South Korean side at Panmunjom, and has been taken to hospital. (BBC)
2016 Internal conflict in Myanmar: Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar: Eight people are killed and 36 are arrested in clashes between the Myanmar Army and what are believed to be Rohingya insurgents in Rakhine State. (Reuters)
2015 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant: The United States conducts airstrikes targeting Kuwaiti-British militant Jihadi John. Later, the U.S. says it is "reasonably certain" a drone strike in Syria killed Jihadi John, né Mohammed Emwazi. (BBC) (Reuters)
2014 Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:: The Nigerian-based militant group seizes control of the northeastern town of Chibok, Borno State. (BBC)
2013 Syria civil war:: Syrian army retakes strategically important Damascus suburb of Hujaira from the rebels. (Reuters)Four Palestinians are killed in a bombing attack at the Yarmouk refugee camp. (Maan News)Syrian Kurds announce transitional autonomous authority amidst fighting with rebels. (BBC)
2012 Syrian civil war:: Three Syrian tanks have entered the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights. Israel has launched a formal complaint to the United Nations. (Haaretz)France and six other states recognize the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. (France24)
2011 At least six people are dead and four injured after a bomb in a donkey cart explodes in Mastak in Pakistan. (AFP via Google News)
2010 Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao defeats American Antonio Margarito to become the first boxer ever to win championships in eight different weight classes.
2009 NASA scientists announce that last month's experiment to find water on the Moon was a major success, revealing ice and water vapor in the debris field of smashing a rocket into a crater.
2008 Blizzard Entertainment launched the latest expansion pack to the highly popular computer game MMORPG World of Warcraft, entitled Wrath of the Lich King.
2007 High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
2006 Voters in South Ossetia vote 98-99% in favor of independence from Georgia in a referendum. 78% of the vote has been counted. Neither Russia nor the West recognize the poll's legitimacy. (CNN)
2005 Stephen Harper, Gilles Duceppe and Jack Layton, leaders of Canada's three parliamentary opposition parties, issue a joint ultimatum calling for the next Canadian federal election to be moved forward to early February from the April date favoured by the government. They threaten to pass a motion of non-confidence and force an election at Christmas if Paul Martin's Liberal government does not accede to the move in writing. Martin rejects their proposal. (CBC)
2004 US Troops are preventing a Red Crescent aid convoy from entering the city of Falluja, reportedly for safety reasons (Reuters)
2003 ''SCO v. IBM:'' SCO Group files subpoenas for Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.
2002 The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
2001 In the first such act since World War II, U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States.
2000 Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
1998 Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq, then calls them off at the last minute when Iraq promises once again to "unconditionally" cooperate with UNSCOM.
1997 Lion King, opens at New Amsterdam Theater, New York City
1996 Three Sisters, closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York City
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.
1994 Sweden agrees to join European Union
1993 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
1992 Riddick Bowe beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
1991 Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party-asst Secretary of State
1990 In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
1989 Paul McCartney releases Figure of 8 andOu Est Le Soleil
1988 Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
1987 1st condom commercial on BBC TV
1986 Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20-game winner in Major League Baseball, wins Cy Young award.
1984 David Levy finds his 1st comet
1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1981 Ringo releases Wrack My Brains
1980 Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend
1979 British newspaper Times resumes publishing after 1 year
1977 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1975 Musical Jubilee opens at St. James Theater NYC for 92 performances
1974 Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP
1973 Gigi opens at Uris Theater NYC for 103 performances
1971 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1970 Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
1969 US Vice President Spiro T Agnew accuses network TV news depths of bias and distortion.
1968 Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP
1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland, Ohio)
1965 Skyscraper opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances
1964 Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
1961 WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude, Spain).
1958 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League
1956 US Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses.
1955 Argentine General Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as President
1952 False fingernails 1st sold
1950 US win 1st world championship bridge contest
1948 As the Girls Go opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 420 performances
1947 Russia completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles
1946 Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI vs. the MCC
1945 Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India
1942 Chaotic sea battle of Friday the 13th at Guadalcanal
1941 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean
1940 RKO Radio Pictures world premieres Disney's third animated feature film, Fantasia, at New York's Broadway Theater. The film introduces stereophonic sound to motion pictures via a special sound system called Fantasound. This is Mickey Mouse' feature film debut, in the segment The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
1937 NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio.
1935 Anti-British riots in Egypt
1934 The Italian government decrees that teachers must wear a military or party uniform in a class.
1933 First modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minnesota.
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1926 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java
1922 Black Renaissance begins Harlem, New York
1921 US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty.
1918 Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont abdicates throne
1916 British offensive at Ancre Belgium
1913 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
1909 Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game.
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor)
1906 C W Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 vs. Queensland
1903 The United States recognizes the independence of Panama.
1901 The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
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