What are the important events that happened on November 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 13: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 13 is the 317^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 31, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,720 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecaheptagon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,710 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 13 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1942 –
  World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
• 1947 –
  The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
• 1954 –
  Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• 1965 –
  The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
• 1969 –
  Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
• 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.
• 1995 –
  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.

Who were born on November 13?

• 1699 –
  Jan Zach, Czech composer and musician (d. 1773)
• 1768 –
  Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
• 1922 –
  Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
• 1940 –
  Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician
• 1945 –
  Masahiro Hasemi, Japanese racing driver
• 1953 –
  Tracy Scoggins, American actress
• 1956 –
  Rex Linn, American actor
• 1960 –
  Neil Flynn, American actor
• 1980 –
  François-Louis Tremblay, Canadian speed skater
• 1984 –
  Kurt Morath, Tongan rugby player

Who died on November 13?

• 867 –
  Pope Nicholas I
• 1143 –
  King Fulk of Jerusalem
• 1619 –
  Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
• 1770 –
  George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
• 1961 –
  Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1897)
• 1963 –
  Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
• 1994 –
  Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
• 1996 –
  Swami Rama, Himalayan yoga master (b. 1925)
• 1997 –
  Dawud M. Mu'Min, American murderer (b. 1953)
• 2008 –
  Jules Archer, American historian (b. 1915)