November 13 in History

A mass stabbing occurs in Moscow, Idaho in which four University of Idaho students are killed in off-campus housing.

Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.

A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.

Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

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.

Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.

As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project, Joel Armengaud discovers the project's first Mersenne prime number,

Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.

Nigeria Airways Flight 357 crashes at Kaduna International Airport in Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 11 people and injuring 66.

In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.

China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashes on approach to Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport in Ürümqi, China, killing 12 people.

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.

The Republic of Karelia, an autonomous republic of Russia, is formed from the former Karelian ASSR.

In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.

Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.

The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.

Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.

Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 18) leads to significant changes in the sport.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

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.

Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.

The first of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland.

In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.

All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea near Matsuyama Airport in Japan, killing 50 people.

The SS Yarmouth Castle catches fire and sinks, killing 87.

The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed a lower court ruling that invalidated Alabama laws requiring segregated buses, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.

Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.

General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.

The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.

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.

Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow.

The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.

World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in Italy known as the "First Battle of the Piave"). The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, despite help from the German Alpenkorps and numerical superiority, will fail their offensive against the Italian Army now led by its new chief of staff Armando Diaz.

World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.

Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.

The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster occurs, killing 9 of the 12 crew members.

13 November stabbing is committed by Léon Léauthier during the Ère des attentats. This is an influential event in the birth of modern terrorism.

Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ends in a Union rout as Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge pursue them to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee.

The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.

James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

Great Meteor Storm of 1833.

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.

American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.

Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive.

First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.

Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.

Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are killed.

English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

Emma Raducanu, British tennis player

Giovanni Reyna, American soccer player

Sydney Agudong, American actress and singer

Brett Baty, American baseball player

Lando Norris, British-Belgian race car driver

Oliver Stummvoll, Austrian model

Julia Michaels, American singer and songwriter

Grégory Hofmann, Swiss ice hockey player

Shabazz Muhammad, American basketball player

Matt Bennett, American actor

Brenden Dillon, Canadian ice hockey player

Hatsune Matsushima, Japanese model and actress

Dana Vollmer, American swimmer

Kevin Bridges, Scottish comedian and actor

Wade Miley, American baseball player

Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player

Lucas Barrios, Paraguayan footballer

Kurt Morath, Tongan rugby player

Kalle Kriit, Estonian cyclist

Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (died 2012)

Michael Copon, American actor, singer, and producer

Samkon Gado, Nigerian-American football player

Kumi Koda, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress

Ryan Bertin, American wrestler and coach

Rivkah, American author and illustrator

Monique Coleman, American actress, singer, and dancer

Sara Del Rey, American wrestler and trainer

Juraj Kolník, Slovak ice hockey player

François-Louis Tremblay, Canadian speed skater

Kick, Japanese comedian and screenwriter

Subliminal, Israeli rapper and producer

Nikolai Fraiture, American bass player

Zulfiqer Russell, Bangladeshi journalist and lyricist

Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer

Janine Leal, Venezuelan nutritionist, television presenter and model.

Kelly Sotherton, English sprinter and long jumper

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Japanese wrestler

Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (died 2008)

Alain Digbeu, French basketball player

Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer

Aisha Hinds, American actress

Quim, Portuguese footballer

Toivo Suursoo, Estonian ice hockey player and coach

Carl Hoeft, New Zealand rugby player

Indrek Zelinski, Estonian footballer and manager

David Auradou, French rugby player

Jordan Bridges, American actor

Ari Hoenig, American drummer and composer

Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer

Samantha Riley, Australian swimmer

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somalian-American activist and author

Patrik Augusta, Czech ice hockey player

Gerard Butler, Scottish actor

Nico Motchebon, German runner

Pat Hentgen, American baseball player and coach

Juhi Chawla, Indian actress, singer, and producer, Miss India 1984

Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, and talk show host

Steve Zahn, American actor and singer

Susanna Haapoja, Finnish politician (died 2009)

Timo Rautiainen, Finnish race car driver

Dan Sullivan, American politician

Jaime Covilhã, Angolan basketball player and coach

Vinny Testaverde, American football player

Kim Polese, American entrepreneur and technology executive

Neil Flynn, American actor

Teodora Ungureanu, Romanian gymnast and coach

Caroline Goodall, English actress and screenwriter

Greg Abbott, American politician, 48th Governor of Texas

Rex Linn, American actor

Aldo Nova, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

Robert Aaron, Canadian jazz musician

Bill Britton, American golfer

Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host

Scott McNealy, American businessman, co-founded Sun Microsystems

Chris Noth, American actor and producer

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former President of Mexico

Tracy Scoggins, American actress

Merrick Garland, American jurist, 86th United States Attorney General

Mark Lye, American golfer

Art Malik, Pakistani-English actor and producer

Pini Gershon, Israeli basketball player and coach

Harry Hurt III, American author and journalist

Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Terry Reid, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)

Humayun Ahmed, Bengali popular writer, dramatist, novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and filmmaker (died 2012)

Toy Caldwell, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1993)

Amory Lovins, American physicist and environmentalist

Joe Mantegna, American actor and voice artist

Stanisław Barańczak, Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar (died 2014)

Ray Wylie Hubbard, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist

Masahiro Hasemi, Japanese race car driver

Bobby Manuel, American guitarist and producer

Knut Riisnæs, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (died 2023)

Timmy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2022)

Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer and manager

Jay Sigel, American golfer (died 2025)

Howard Wilkinson, English footballer and manager

John P. Hammond, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Eberhard Diepgen, German lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Berlin

David Green, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Hobby Lobby

Dack Rambo, American actor (died 1994)

Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player and coach (died 2019)

Saul Kripke, American philosopher and academic (died 2022)

Baby Washington, American soul singer

Karel Brückner, Czech footballer and manager

Idris Muhammad, American drummer and composer (died 2014)

Gérald Godin, Canadian journalist, poet, and politician (died 1994)

Jack Rule Jr., American golfer

Jean Seberg, American-French actress and singer (died 1979)

Salim Kallas, Syrian actor and politician (died 2013)

George Carey, English archbishop and theologian

Peter Arnett, New Zealand-American journalist and academic (died 2025)

Jimmy Fontana, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (died 2013)

Kamahl, Malaysian-Australian singer

Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (died 2016)

Don Lane, American-Australian actor, singer, and television host (died 2009)

Ojārs Vācietis, Latvian author and poet (died 1983)

Richard Mulligan, American actor (died 2000)

Adrienne Corri, Scottish actress (died 2016)

Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (died 2006)

Fred R. Harris, American politician (died 2024)

Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (died 2013)

Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded the Westboro Baptist Church (died 2014)

Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (died 1988)

Helena Carroll, Scottish-American actress (died 2013)

Jack George, American basketball player (died 1989)

Hampton Hawes, American pianist and author (died 1977)

Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, American mathematician and theorist (died 1985)

Harry Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Maryland (died 2019)

Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (died 1994)

Leonard Boyle, Irish and Canadian medievalist and palaeographer (died 1999)

Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (died 2011)

Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (died 2008)

Oskar Werner, Austrian-German actor (died 1984)

Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish pianist and composer (died 1996)

Guillermina Bravo, Mexican dancer, choreographer, and director (died 2013)

Jack Elam, American actor (died 2003)

George Grant, Canadian philosopher and academic (died 1988)

Vasantdada Patil, Indian farmer and politician, 9th Governor of Rajasthan (died 1989)

Robert Sterling, American actor (died 2006)

Amelia Bence, Argentinian actress (died 2016)

Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2005)

V. Appapillai, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (died 2001)

Dimitrios Hatzis, Greek novelist and journalist (died 1981)

Lon Nol, Cambodian general and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 1985)

Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (died 2006)

William Bradford Huie, American journalist and author (died 1986)

Pat Reid, Indian-English soldier and author (died 1990)

Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (died 2003)

C. Vann Woodward, American historian, author, and academic (died 1999)

Hermione Baddeley, English actress (died 1986)

A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (died 1987)

Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-American potter and designer (died 2011)

H. C. Potter, American director and producer (died 1977)

David Marshall Williams, American convicted murderer and firearms designer (died 1975)

Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1985)

Iskander Mirza, Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (died 1969)

Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (died 1975)

Bennie Moten, American pianist and bandleader (died 1935)

Arthur Nebe, German SS officer (died 1945)

Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)

Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (died 1973)

Leo Goodwin, American swimmer, diver, and water polo player (died 1957)

Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (died 1907)

John Grieb, American gymnast and triathlete (died 1939)

Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (died 1952)

John M. Lyle, Irish-Canadian architect and educator, designed the Royal Alexandra Theatre (died 1945)

Helene Stöcker, German author and activist (died 1943)

Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian-American activist, journalist, and politician (died 1962)

Abraham Flexner, American educator, founded the Institute for Advanced Study (died 1959)

James Cannon Jr., American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (died 1944),

Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (died 1941)

George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer and educator (died 1931)

John Drew Jr., American actor (died 1927)

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (died 1894)

Albert I, Prince of Monaco (died 1922)

Mir Mosharraf Hossain, famous novelist of Bengali literature (died 1912)

Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (died 1913)

Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1918)

James T. Rapier, American lawyer and politician (died 1883)

Edwin Booth, American actor and manager (died 1893)

Joseph Hooker, American general (died 1879)

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Montenegrin metropolitan, philosopher, and poet (died 1851)

John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (died 1870)

Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (died 1880)

Esaias Tegnér, Swedish bishop and educator (died 1846)

Ranjit Singh, Sikh emperor (died 1839)

John Moore, Scottish general and politician (died 1809)

Jiaqing Emperor of China (died 1820)

John Dickinson, American lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Pennsylvania (died 1808)

Dorothea Erxleben, German first female medical doctor (died 1762)

Charles Simon Favart, French director and playwright (died 1792)

Jan Zach, Czech violinist, organist, and composer (died 1773)

Cyril Lucaris, Greek patriarch and theologian (died 1638)

Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (died 1621)

Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1567)

William IV, Duke of Bavaria (died 1550)

Johann Eck, German theologian and academic (died 1543)

Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1475–1515) (died 1527)

Edward III of England (died 1377)

Augustine of Hippo, Roman bishop and theologian (died 430)

Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician and lawyer (born 1924)

Theodore Olson, American lawyer (born 1940)

Shel Talmy, American record producer, songwriter and arranger (born 1937)

Shuntarō Tanikawa, Japanese poet and translator (born 1931)

Daim Zainuddin, Malaysian politician (born 1938)

Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer (born 1946)

Bobby Doerr, American baseball player and manager (born 1918)

Leon Russell, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)

María José Alvarado, Honduran model, Señorita Honduras 2014 (born 1995)

Kakha Bendukidze, Georgian economist and politician, Georgian Minister of Economy (born 1956)

Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (born 1922)

Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (born 1928)

Hans-Jürgen Heise, German author and poet (born 1930)

Chieko Aioi, Japanese actress and voice actress (born 1934)

Erazm Ciołek, Polish photographer and author (born 1937)

Manuel Peña Escontrela, Spanish footballer (born 1965)

John Sheridan, English rugby player and coach (born 1933)

Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1921)

Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (born 1926)

Wahab Akbar, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1960)

John Doherty, English footballer and manager (born 1935)

Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1937)

Vine Deloria, Jr., American historian, theologian, and author (born 1933)

Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (born 1967)

John Balance, English singer-songwriter (born 1962)

Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (born 1968)

Thomas M. Foglietta, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1928)

Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1925)

Rishikesh Shaha, Nepalese academic and politician (born 1925)

Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter (born 1915)

Edwige Feuillère, French actress (born 1907)

Valerie Hobson, Irish-born English actress (born 1917)

Red Holzman, American basketball player and coach (born 1920)

André Boucourechliev, Bulgarian-French pianist and composer (born 1925)

Bill Doggett, American pianist and composer (born 1916)

Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and academic (born 1959)

Jack Baker, American actor and screenwriter (born 1947)

Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (born 1924)

Rufus R. Jones, American wrestler (born 1933)

Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (born 1904)

Helen Dettweiler, American golfer (born 1914)

Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (born 1964)

Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (born 1906)

Rohana Wijeweera, Sri Lankan rebel and politician (born 1943)

Dorothea Krook-Gilead, Latvian-South African author, translator and scholar (born 1920)

Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (born 1906)

Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (born 1902)

Franco Cortese, Italian race car driver (born 1903)

Henry Jamison Handy, American swimmer and water polo player (born 1886)

Junior Samples, American comedian and actor (born 1926)

Hugues Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 15th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1911)

Dimitris Psathas, Greek playwright and academic (born 1907)

Olga Bergholz, Russian poet and playwright (born 1910)

Vittorio De Sica, Italian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1901)

Karen Silkwood, American technician and activist (born 1946)

Lila Lee, American actress (born 1901)

Bruno Maderna, Italian-German conductor and composer (born 1920)

Bessie Braddock, British politician (born 1899)

Iskander Mirza, Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (born 1899)

Margaret Murray, Indian-English anthropologist and author (born 1863)

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (born 1897)

Dida Dederding, Danish doctor and academic (born 1889)

Bernard DeVoto, American historian and author (born 1897)

Moshe Pesach, Greek rabbi (born 1869)

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (born 1881)

Margaret Wise Brown, American author (born 1910)

Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral (born 1890)

Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (born 1857)

Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) (born 1878)

Princess Viktoria of Prussia (born 1866)

Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (born 1850)

Cecilie Thoresen Krog, Norwegian women's rights pioneer (born 1858)

Camille Pissarro, Virgin Islander-French painter (born 1830)

J. Marion Sims, American physician and gynecologist (born 1813)

Margaret Sarah Carpenter, English painter (born 1793)

Gioachino Rossini, Italian pianist and composer (born 1792)

Adolphe Napoléon Didron, French archaeologist and historian (born 1806)

Ignacio Comonfort, Mexican soldier and politician. President 1855–1858 (born 1812)

Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (born 1787)

William Bowyer, English printer and author (born 1699)

Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (born 1712)

George Grenville, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1712)

Sophia Dorothea of Celle, Electoral Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Ahlden (born 1666)

Thomas May, English poet and historian (born 1595)

Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1555)

Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (born 1530)

Annio da Viterbo, Italian friar, historian, and scholar (born 1432)

Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (born 1394)

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland

Anne of Burgundy, duchess of Bedford (born 1404)

Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick

Ivan II of Moscow (born 1326)

Constance of Peñafiel, queen of Pedro I of Portugal (born 1323)

Eric VI of Denmark (born 1274)

Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln

Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims (born c.1121)

Iziaslav II of Kiev, Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (born c. 1097)

Fulk, King of Jerusalem (born 1089)

Malcolm III of Scotland (born 1031)

Adalbero III of Luxembourg (born c. 1010)

Abbo of Fleury, French monk and saint (born 945)

Pallig, Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire

Gunhilde, wife of Pallig, Danish chieftain

Pope Nicholas I (born 800)