November 13
Today is
World Kindness Day. So, kindly piss off. Please/Thank You.
There are
48 days remaining in 2016.
There are
41 days until Christmas.
Events
1002 – English king
Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the
St. Brice's Day massacre.
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.
1851 – The
Denny Party lands at
Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay and founding what would become
Seattle, Washington.
1901 – The 1901
Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
1927 – The
Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first
Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
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.
1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the
AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the
Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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 – The volcano
Nevado del Ruiz erupts
and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries
Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
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.
2015 – A set of
coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th and 11th arrondissements kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.
2015 –
WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.
Births
1814 – Joseph Hooker; 1833 – Edwin Booth (John Wilkes Booth's big bro); 1838 – Joseph F. Smith; 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson; 1856 – Louis Brandeis (associate justice of SCOTUS);
1899 – Iskander Mirza (1st president of Pakistan); 1913 – Lon Nol; 1920 – Jack Elam

; 1922 – Oskar Werner (
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Fahrenheit 451); 1929 – Fred Phelps (founded the Westboro Baptist Cocksmokers); 1932 – Richard Mulligan (
Soap, Empty Nest); 1934 – Garry Marshall; 1938 – Jean Seberg (
Paint Your Wagon); 1941 – David Green (founded Hobby Lobby); 1941 – Dack Rambo; 1946 – Ray Wylie Hubbard

; 1947 – Toy Caldwell

(The Marshall Tucker Band); 1947 – Joe Mantegna (
Glengarry Glen Ross, Criminal Minds); 1949 – Terry Reid♪ ♫; 1954 – Chris Noth (
Law & Order, Sex and the City); 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg; 1960 – Neil Flynn (
Scrubs, The Middle); 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel; 1967 – Steve Zahn; 1969 – Gerard Butler (
300, Gamer, Olympus Has Fallen)
Deaths
1969 – Iskander Mirza (1st president of Pakistan); 1974 – Karen Silkwood (subject of the movie
Silkwood); 1983 – Junior Samples (Hee Haw); 2004 – Ol' Dirty Bastard♪ ♫; 2014 – Mike Burney♪ ♫(Wizzard)