Today in History
13 November
201 births · 103 deaths · 51 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1974
Indrek Zelinski
Estonian footballer (born 1974)
Notable Births
All 201 ›
Emma Raducanu
b. 2002
British tennis player (born 2002)
Giovanni Reyna
b. 2002
American soccer player (born 2002)
Brett Baty
b. 1999
American baseball player (born 1999)
Lando Norris
b. 1999
British racing driver (born 1999)
Julia Michaels
b. 1993
American singer and songwriter (born 1993)
Grégory Hofmann
b. 1992
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1992)
Indrek Zelinski
b. 1974
Estonian footballer (born 1974)
Augustine of Hippo
b. 354
Christian theologian and philosopher (354–430)
Notable Deaths
All 103 ›
Juan Ponce Enrile
d. 2025
President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to 2013
Theodore Olson
d. 2024
American lawyer (1940–2024)
Shel Talmy
d. 2024
American record producer, songwriter and arranger (1937–2024)
Shuntarō Tanikawa
d. 2024
Japanese poet and translator (1931–2024)
Daim Zainuddin
d. 2024
Malaysian politician (1938–2024)
Peter Sutcliffe
d. 2020
English serial killer (1946–2020)
Bobby Doerr
d. 2017
American baseball player (1918–2017)
Leon Russell
d. 2016
American singer-songwriter (1942–2016)
On This Day in History
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2022
A mass stabbing occurs in Moscow, Idaho in which four University of Idaho students are killed in off-campus housing.
2022 University of Idaho murders
2015
Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.
Islamic State
2012
A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.
Solar eclipse
2002
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
Iraq disarmament crisis
2001
War on terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
War on terror
2000
Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
Philippines
1996
As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project, Joel Armengaud discovers the project's first Mersenne prime number,
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
1995
Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
Mozambique