November 13 events in history

1160 Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne
1553 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen "Bloody" Mary I
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
1775 American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal
1864 The new Constitution of Greece is adopted
1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London
1901 The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster
1916 Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription
1918 Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire
1940 Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre
1941 World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day
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
1947 The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles
1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas
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
1974 Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror
1982 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
1985 Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor
1990 In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day
1994 In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union
2000 Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada
2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441
2007 Russia officially withdraws from the Soviet-era Batumi military base, Georgia
2012 A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific