Year 1841
Animal attraction attracted James Brady to study hypnosis.
NOVEMBER 13
Daily Historical Chronicle
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13 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 13 November.
Observances & Special Days
World Kindness Day
Year 1864
Greece adopted a new constitution.
Year 1901
Four Language panels were started on Rs. 10/- notes. First time four corner serial numbers were introduced. This panel had Indian languages which varied from state to state.
Year 1901
War Secretary Brodrick claimed that Boers were killing natives in large numbers. He intended to withdraw troops from India to fight in S. Africa at London.
Year 1909
Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
Year 1913
Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy.
Year 1931
Shankar Ramchandra ‘Mamarao Date’ successfully mechanically matched the Devanagari script on a monotype machine.
Year 1945
Australian Services draw first Victory Test against India.
Year 1953
Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi.
Year 1970
A devastating cyclone struck Bangladesh, killing at least 500,000 people overnight. It was the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century.
Year 1971
American aircraft Mariner-9 circled Mars.
Year 1985
Around 23,000 people died in eastern Colombia due to volcanic eruptions.
Year 1991
Supreme Court orders establishment of an all-India judicial service.
Year 1993
The Indian hospital and aviation was operational immediately. The Indian contingent formally took charge of the responsibility of the capital city of Mogadishu.
Year 1994
In a referendum in Sweden, the people decided to join the European Union.
Year 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.
Year 1995
The Supreme Court in an unanimous 65-page verdict declares that patients who received deficient services from the medical profession and hospitals were entitled to claim damages under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
Year 1998
The Dalai Lama and US President Bill Clinton met despite opposition from China.
Year 1998
Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final.
Year 1999
A woman commits 'sati' in Satpura village in Mohaba district of Uttar Pradesh.
Year 1999
Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.
Year 2012
A total solar eclipse occurred in Australia and parts of the South Pacific Ocean.
Born On This Day
354 AD: Augustine of Hippo, a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
Born 1312
Edward III, the King of England and Lord of Ireland.
Born 1780
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire.
Born 1850
Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer.
Born 1899
Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza, a Pakistani general, civil servant, and the first President of Pakistan.
Born 1908
Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born.
Born 1910
Pat Reid, Indian-English soldier and author (d. 1990)
Born 1917
Vasantdada Patil, Indian farmer and politician, 9th Governor of Rajasthan (d. 1989)
Born 1917
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Indian-Hindi poet, writer, commentator, and Editor.
Born 1922
Mahadev Sadashivrao Ande, freedom fighter and political leader, was born.
Born 1935
Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP.
Born 1953
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the 58th and current President of Mexico.
Born 1954
Scott McNeill, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
Born 1967
Juhi Chawla, Indian actress, singer, and producer, Miss India 1984
Died 1460
Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese explorer.
Died 1740
Krishnadayarnav, ancient Indian-Marathi poet.
Died 1897
Ernest Giles, an Australian explorer.
Died 1956
Indubhushan Banerjee, a modern Indian-Bengali historian who wrote a comprehensive history of Sikhism.
Died 1962
Yezdani Gulam, great researcher, archeologist and art critic, died.
Died 1963
Margaret Murray, Indian-English anthropologist and author (b. 1863)
Died 1969
Iskander Mirza, Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
Died 1992
Dr. Pundalik Dattatrya Gaitonde, Goa freedom fighter, passed away.
Died 1998
Pravabati Devi (88), freedom fighter and `Mother Teresa of Orissa', dies at the orphanage set up by her at Chharchanpali.
Died 2001
Sarojini Madhusudan Sharangpani, Indian writer.
Died 2002
Hrishikesh Saha, Nepali writer, politician, and human rights activist.
Died 2014
Alexander Grothendieck, a mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.