| 129301 | November 13 | Event | 1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster. |
| 129302 | November 13 | Event | 1914 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri. |
| 129303 | November 13 | Event | 1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription. |
| 129304 | November 13 | Event | 1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 129305 | November 13 | Event | 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. |
| 129306 | November 13 | Event | 1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre. |
| 129307 | November 13 | Event | 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. |
| 129308 | November 13 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign. |
| 129309 | November 13 | Event | 1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. |
| 129310 | November 13 | Event | 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas. |
| 129311 | November 13 | Event | 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators. |
| 129312 | November 13 | Event | 1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| 129313 | November 13 | Event | 1965 – The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives. |
| 129314 | November 13 | Event | 1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu. |
| 129315 | November 13 | Event | 1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death. |
| 129316 | November 13 | Event | 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. |
| 129317 | November 13 | Event | 1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror. |
| 129318 | November 13 | Event | 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. |
| 129319 | November 13 | Event | 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans. |
| 129320 | November 13 | Event | 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. |
| 129321 | November 13 | Event | 1985 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor. |
| 129322 | November 13 | Event | 1986 – The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence from the United States. |
| 129323 | November 13 | Event | 1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride. |
| 129324 | November 13 | Event | 1989 – Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father. |
| 129325 | November 13 | Event | 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. |
| 129326 | November 13 | Event | 1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented. |
| 129327 | November 13 | Event | 1994 – In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union. |
| 129328 | November 13 | Event | 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. |
| 129329 | November 13 | Event | 2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. |
| 129330 | November 13 | Event | 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. |