About November 13

November 13, 2025 is the 317th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 48 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 96 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On November 13

  • 1002 –
    English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice’s Day massacre.
  • 1160 –
    Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
  • 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.
  • 1775 –
    American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery attack Montreal, Quebec, defended by British General Guy Carleton.
  • 1851 –
    The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliot Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
  • 1901 –
    The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
  • 1916 –
    Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
  • 1918 –
    Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1927 –
    The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
  • 1956 –
    The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • 1965 –
    The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
  • 1966 –
    In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
  • 1969 –
    Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
  • 1971 –
    The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
  • 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.
  • 1986 –
    The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
  • 1990 –
    In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
  • 2000 –
    Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
  • 2002 –
    Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
  • 2007 –
    The Russian Federation officially withdraws from the Soviet-era Batumi military base, Georgia.

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