Historical Events - November 13

1841  Animal attraction attracted James Brady to study hypnosis.

1864 : Greece adopted a new constitution.

1913 : Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy.

1931 : Shankar Ramchandra ‘Mamarao Date’ successfully mechanically matched the Devanagari script on a monotype machine.

1970 : A devastating cyclone struck Bangladesh, killing at least 500,000 people overnight. It was the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century.

1971 : American aircraft Mariner-9 circled Mars. 

1985 : Around 23,000 people died in eastern Colombia due to volcanic eruptions.

1994 : In a referendum in Sweden, the people decided to join the European Union.

1998 : The Dalai Lama and US President Bill Clinton met despite opposition from China.

2012 : A total solar eclipse occurred in Australia and parts of the South Pacific Ocean.

Famous Birthdays   – November 13  

1312: Edward III, the King of England and Lord of Ireland.

1780: Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire.

1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer.

1899: Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza, a Pakistani general, civil servant, and the first President of Pakistan.

1917: Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, the 5th and 9th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

1917: Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Indian-Hindi poet, writer, commentator, and Editor.

1953: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the 58th and current President of Mexico.

1954: Scott McNeill, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

1967: Juhi Chawla, Indian actress.

Death Anniversaries   – November 13

1460: Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese explorer.

1740: Krishnadayarnav, ancient Indian-Marathi poet.

1897: Ernest Giles, an Australian explorer.

1956: Indubhushan Banerjee, a modern Indian-Bengali historian who wrote a comprehensive history of Sikhism.

2001: Sarojini Madhusudan Sharangpani, Indian writer.

2002: Hrishikesh Saha, Nepali writer, politician, and human rights activist.

2014: Alexander Grothendieck, a mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.