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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.

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

Æthelred II, known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from March 978 to December 1013 and again from February 1014 until his death. The epithet "Unready" is a pun on his name in Old English, Æðel (noble) and ræd (counsel). He was the son of King Edgar and Queen Ælfthryth.

People

Born on November 13

Emma Raducanu 2002– British tennis player (born 2002)
Giovanni Reyna 2002– American soccer player (born 2002)
Sydney Agudong 2000– American actress and singer (born 2000)
Brett Baty 1999– American baseball player (born 1999)
Lando Norris 1999– British racing driver (born 1999)
Oliver Stummvoll 1995– Austrian fashion model (born 1995)
Julia Michaels 1993– American singer and songwriter (born 1993)
Grégory Hofmann 1992– Swiss ice hockey player (born 1992)
Shabazz Muhammad 1992– American basketball player (born 1992)
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Matt Bennett 1991– American actor and DJ (born 1991)
Brenden Dillon 1990– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Hatsune Matsushima 1987– Japanese model and actress
Dana Vollmer 1987– American swimmer (born 1987)
Kevin Bridges 1986– Scottish stand-up comedian (born 1986)
Wade Miley 1986– American baseball player (born 1986)
Asdrúbal Cabrera 1985– Venezuelan-American baseball player (born 1985)
Lucas Barrios 1984– Paraguayan footballer (born 1984)
Kurt Morath 1984– Tonga international rugby union player

People

Died on November 13

Juan Ponce Enrile President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to 2013
Theodore Olson American lawyer (1940–2024)
Shel Talmy American record producer, songwriter and arranger (1937–2024)
Shuntarō Tanikawa Japanese poet and translator (1931–2024)
Daim Zainuddin Malaysian politician (1938–2024)
Peter Sutcliffe English serial killer (1946–2020)
Bobby Doerr American baseball player (1918–2017)
Leon Russell American singer-songwriter (1942–2016)
María José Alvarado Honduran beauty queen (1995–2014)
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Kakha Bendukidze Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist (1956–2014)
Alvin Dark American baseball player and manager (1922–2014) Alexander Grothendieck French mathematician (1928–2014)
Hans-Jürgen Heise German author and poet
Chieko Aioi Japanese actress and voice actress
Erazm Ciołek Polish photographer and author (born 1937)
Manuel Peña Escontrela Spanish footballer
John Sheridan English RL coach and former rugby league footballer
Luis García Berlanga Spanish film director and screenwriter (1921-2010)

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Every November 13 on record

  1. 1002 English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

    King of England (978–1013; 1014–1016)

    Æthelred II, known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from March 978 to December 1013 and again from February 1014 until his death. The epithet "Unready" is a pun on his name in Old English, Æðel (noble) and ræd (counsel). He was the son of King Edgar and Queen Ælfthryth.

  2. 1093 Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are killed.

    One of two battles in Northumberland, England

    The Battle of Alnwick is one of two battles fought near the town of Alnwick in Northumberland, England. In the battle, which occurred on 13 November 1093, Malcolm III of Scotland, later known as Malcolm Canmore, was killed together with his son Edward by an army of English knights led by Robert de Mowbray.

  3. 1160 Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.

    King of the Franks from 1137 to 1180

    Louis VII, was King of France from 1137 to 1180. Called the Younger or the Young to differentiate him from his father Louis VI, His first marriage was to Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe. The marriage temporarily extended the Capetian lands to the Pyrenees.

  4. 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.

    Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1642–1646)

    The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. An estimated 15% to 20% of adult males in England and Wales served in the military at some point between 1639 and 1653, while around 4% of the total population died from war-related causes. These figures illustrate the widespread impact of the conflict on society, and the bitterness it engendered as a result.

  5. 1715 Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive.

    1715 attempt by the exiled House of Stuart to regain the British throne

    The Jacobite rising of 1715 was an attempt by the exiled James Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the Stuarts.

  6. 1775 American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.
  7. 1809 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.
  8. 1833 Great Meteor Storm of 1833.
  9. 1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
  10. 1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
  11. 1864 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.
  12. 1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
  13. 1893 13 November stabbing is committed by Léon Léauthier during the Ère des attentats. This is an influential event in the birth of modern terrorism.
  14. 1901 The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster occurs, killing 9 of the 12 crew members.
  15. 1914 Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
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  1. 1916 World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
  2. 1917 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.
  3. 1918 World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
  4. 1922 The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.
  5. 1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
  6. 1940 Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow.
  7. 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.
  8. 1947 The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
  9. 1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
  10. 1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
  11. 1956 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.
  12. 1965 The SS Yarmouth Castle catches fire and sinks, killing 87.
  13. 1966 In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
  14. 1966 All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea near Matsuyama Airport in Japan, killing 50 people.
  15. 1967 The first of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland.

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