A Brief History
This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 13th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event.
Digging Deeper
On November 13, 1002, English king Æthelred II the Unready ordered the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice’s Day massacre.
On November 13, 1901, a British lifeboat crew answered the distress flares of a small ship in peril off the coast of Norfolk, England, only to suffer terrible hardships in attempting to launch their lifeboat from shore to go to the sailors in peril.
On November 13, 1922, the United States Supreme Court decision called Zucht v. King, upheld the discretion that allowed a Texas school board to require mandatory vaccination of school children against smallpox.
On November 12-13, 1970, an Indian Ocean cyclone with winds over 150 mph hit what is now Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) killing more than three times the number of people killed in the Atom Bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined!
On November 13, 1974, the real story of The Amityville Horror began when Ronald DeFeo, Jr. savagely murdered his entire family in the house featured in the popular horror story.
On November 13, 2013, a painting painted by Francis Bacon in 1969 called Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for an incredible $142.4 million, the most ever paid for a painting.
On the evening of November 13, 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, France and its northern suburb Saint-Denis.
On November 13, 2017, in the United States we celebrated the annual chance for unmarried spinsters to catch themselves a husband in the Sadie Hawkins Day race for freedom.
Dark comedic drama fans had their chance to be among the first in Cleveland to see Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri on Monday, November 13, 2017 at 7:00 PM at Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights, Ohio!
On November 13, 2019, we celebrated “Lucky 13” by telling the history of the card game, Poker, a game that enjoys widespread popularity and comes in so many forms it would be difficult to explain all the different games.
Question for students (and subscribers) to ponder: Which event that occurred on today’s date would you like to learn more about?
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Andrews, John and Matt Baker. Timeline of World History. Thunder Bay Press, 2020.
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