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1002 - English king Ethelred ordered killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal defended by British General Guy Carleton. Allen and his troops were disorganised and soundly defeated; however, U.S. Brigadier General Richard Montgomery's force entered Montreal unopposed.

1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.

1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.

1887 - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London

1908 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia.

1909 - Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.

1916 - Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.

1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS ''Ark Royal'' is torpedoed by U 81, she sinks on November 14.

1942 - World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal

1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.

1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.

1956 - United States Supreme Court declared Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.

1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.

1965 - The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.

1969 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death."

1970 - Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster).

1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, has become the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.

1974 - Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood is killed in a car crash while she is travelling to an interview with New York Times reporter David Burnham.

1974 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his family in Amityville, New York (Amityville Horror)

1982 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Kim Duk Koo. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport.

1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

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.

1985 - Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.

1990 - The World Wide Web first began.

1991 - Beauty and The Beast is released in theatres

1994 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.

2001 - Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.

2001 - War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

2002 - The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.

2005 - Chicago Bears cornerback Nathan Vasher returns a missed field goal 108 yards against the San Francisco 49ers, the longest play in NFL history.

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354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, North African theologian (d. 430)

1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)

1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)

1504 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)

1710 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)

1714 - William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)

1732 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)

1760 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (d. 1820)

1761 - John Moore, British general (d. 1809)

1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)

1814 - Joseph Hooker, American General (d. 1879)

1826 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)

1833 - Edwin Booth, American actor (d. 1893)

1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)

1841 - Edward Burd Grubb - American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General (d.1913)

1848 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)

1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)

1853 - John Drew Jr., American actor (d. 1927)

1856 - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1941)

1869 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian feminist (d. 1962)

1878 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)

1886 - Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d. 1973)

1906 - Hermione Baddeley, English actress (d. 1986)

1906 - Eva Zeisel, American industrial designer

1908 - C. Vann Woodward, American historian

1910 - William Bradford Huie, American journalist, editor, publisher and author (d. 1986)

1913 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)

1913 - Helen Mack, American actress (d. 1986)

1914 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005)

1918 - Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)

1922 - Jack Narz, American game show host

1922 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)

1924 - Linda Christian, Mexican-born actress

1924 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)

1928 - Steve Bilko, Baseball player (d. 1978)

1929 - Fred Phelps, leader of the Westboro Baptist Church

1933 - Adrienne Corri, Scottish actress

1934 - Garry Marshall, American producer, director, writer, and actor

1935 - Tom Atkins, American actor

1935 - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury

1938 - Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)

1939 - Idris Muhammad, American jazz drummer

1941 - Mel Stottlemyre, baseball player and coach

1942 - John Hammond, American musician

1947 - Joe Mantegna, American actor

1950 - Mary Lou Metzger, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show

1950 - Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player

1951 - Frances Conroy, American actress

1954 - Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems

1954 - Chris Noth, American actor

1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer

1956 - Ginger Alden, American actress

1963 - Vinny Testaverde, American football player

1967 - Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk-show host

1968 - Pat Hentgen, baseball player

1969 - Gerard Butler, Scottish actor

1969 - Lori Berenson, U.S. journalist

1972 - Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer and actor

1976 - Hiroshi Tanahashi, Japanese professional wrestler

1977 - Chanel Cole, Australian singer

1979 - Ron Artest, American basketball player

1978 - Nikolai Fraiture Bass player for NYC based band The Strokes

1979 - Subliminal, Israeli rapper and producer

1980 - Monique Coleman, American actress

1981 - Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player

1982 - Samkon Gado, American football player

1982 - Kumi Koda, Japanese singer

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867 - Pope Nicholas I

1004 - Abbon of Fleury

1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1031)

1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem

1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg

1314 - Albert the Degenerate

1345 - Constance of Penafiel, wife of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)

1359 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1326)

1460 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394)

1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)

1619 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)

1770 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)

1771 - Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)

1862 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)

1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)

1868 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)

1903 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)

1952 - Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (b. 1910)

1954 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881)

1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)

1973 - Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1901)

1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)

1974 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (b. 1946)

1975 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910)

1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)

1988 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)

1994 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)

1996 - Swami Rama, Himalayan yoga master (b. 1925)

1997 - André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925)

1997 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (b. 1953)

1998 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)

2003 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (b. 1967)

2004 - John Balance, English musician and artist (b. 1962)

2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)

2005 - Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-born professional wrestler (b. 1967)

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Roman festivals - Iovis epulum; feast of Feronia

R.C. Saints - Bricius of Tours; Mother Cabrini; Saint Homobonus

Also see November 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)