Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 13
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This is a list of selected November 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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The eastbound trip of the Holland Tunnel
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1841 – Scottish surgeon James Braid (pictured) observed a demonstration of animal magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called hypnotism. | Overreliance on quotes |
| 1954 – Great Britain defeated France at the Parc des Princes in Paris to win the first Rugby League World Cup. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – The steamship SS Yarmouth Castle burned and sank about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Nassau, Bahamas, killing about 90 people. | refimprove |
| 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C. | refimprove |
| 1989 – Hans-Adam II, reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, took the throne upon the death of his father. | unreferenced section |
| 1990 – A man began shooting people indiscriminately in Aramoana, New Zealand, killing thirteen people in the country's deadliest criminal shooting. | unreferenced section, CN tags |
| 1993 – China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashed upon its approach to Ürümqi Airport, killing twelve people. | stub |
| 2000 – Joseph Estrada became the first President of the Philippines to be impeached after he was accused of taking a sum of 400 million pesos in bribes from illegal gambling sources. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – An explosion hit the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Quezon City, Philippines, killing Congressman Wahab Akbar and five others. | missing citations |
| Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland |d|1440 | page numbers needed |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |b|1850 | refimprove section |
| Malcolm III of Scotland |d|1093| | Refimprove sectopm |
| Amory Lovins |b|1947 | primary sources, refimprove section |
| Lori Berenson |b|1969 | Lots of cn in BLP |
Eligible
- 1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot forces captured Montreal without significant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec.
- 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opened, connecting Manhattan with Jersey City under the Hudson River.
- 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
- 1982 – South Korean boxer Kim Duk-koo suffered fatal brain injuries during a match with American Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, leading to significant rule changes in the sport.
- 1985 – Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
- 1992 – The High Court of Australia ruled in Dietrich v The Queen that, although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay in most circumstances in which an accused is unrepresented.
- 2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.
- Born/died this day: | Dorothea Erxleben |b|1715| Petar II Petrović-Njegoš |b|1813| Gioachino Rossini |d|1868| Gerry Adams |b|1948| Yella Hertzka |d|1948| Moshe Pesach |d|1955| Teodora Ungureanu |b|1960| Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein |d|1989| Maria Vladimirovna Mironova |d|1997|
Notes
- SS Vestris appears on November 12, so SS Yarmouth Castle should not appear in the same year.
- 1002 – King Æthelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
- 1914 – Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
- 1963 – A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.
- 1966 – The Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu in response to a Fatah land mine incident.
- 1974 – In Amityville, New York, Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed the other six members of his family, later inspiring the book The Amityville Horror and the subsequent media franchise.
- Theophilus Holmes (b. 1804)
- Arthur Nebe (b. 1894)
- Anne Dallas Dudley (b. 1876)
- Amelia Bence (b. 1914)