History Events on November 13

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.

#World_War_II

The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.

#Compact_of_Free_Association

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

#Soviet_Union

Hawaii legalizes same sex marriage.

#Hawaii

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

#Holland_Tunnel

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

#American_Revolutionary_War

The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

#Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

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.

#Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal

Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.

#Louis_VII_of_France

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

#Denny_Party

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

#Aramoana

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

#James_Braid_(surgeon)

Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

#Bloody_Sunday_(1887)

During the Prestige oil spill a storm burst a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002 off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.

#Prestige_oil_spill

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.

#High_Court_of_Australia

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

#Philippines

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.

#Ray_Mancini

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

#Walt_Disney

The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.

#1901_Caister_lifeboat_disaster

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

#Nevado_del_Ruiz

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

#First_English_Civil_War

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

#Zaian_War

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

#Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial

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.

#November_2015_Paris_attacks

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

#Hans-Adam_II,_Prince_of_Liechtenstein

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

#Fatah

WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.

#WT1190F

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.

#1970_Bhola_cyclone

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

#World_War_I

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

#Solar_eclipse

4 World Trade Center officially opens.

#4_World_Trade_Center

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

#Allies_of_World_War_I

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

#Vietnam_War

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

#Carlos_Delgado_Chalbaud

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

#Iraq_disarmament_crisis

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.

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.

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

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

Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.

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

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.