Today in History in 1982 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 48 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1002 – Ethelred the Unready orders the killing of Danes of England.

1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.

1553 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and Lady Jane Grey are accused of high treason and sentenced to death.

1642 - English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green - The Royalist forces withdraw against the Parliamentary army and fail to take London.

1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under General Richard Montgomery.

1792 – Trenton, New Jersey becomes an incorporated city.

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

1851 – The first settlers arrive in what will become Seattle, Washington.

1864 – The Constitution of Greece is adopted.

1872 - A flood on Baltic Sea coastlines kills 271 people.

1908 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia.

1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party of Australia.

1918 – British and French troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

1927 - The Hotland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel to link New Jersey and New York City.

1941 - World War II: British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed.

1942 - World War II: US and Japanese forces clash in an intense battle on Guadalcanal.

1945 – Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia.

1947 – The Soviet Union completes the development of the AK-47.

1950 – In Venezuela, General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.

1954 - Great Britain defeats France in Paris to win the first Rugby League World Cup.

1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama's bus segregation laws illegal, ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1957 – Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding in Venice.

1960 - In the city of Amude in Syrian Kurdistan, a cinema fire kills 152 people.

1965 - The ship SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau, Bahamas, killing 90 people.

1969 – Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington, DC.

1970 – The Bhola Cyclone strikes East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing approximately 500,000 people.

1971 – The Mariner 9 spacecraft enters into orbit around Mars.

1972 - "Cyclone" Quimburga strikes the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, killing 73 people.

1977 – Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels marry.

1979 – The Times publishes for the first time in almost a year, following a strike.

1982 - Duk Doo Kim suffers fatal injuries, from which he dies on November 17, in a boxing match against Ray Mancini.

1982 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated.

1985 – The Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts, causing a mudslide that buries the town of Armero, killing around 23,000.

1985 - Xavier Suarez is sworn in as the first Cuban-born Mayor of Miami, Florida.

1986 - The Compact of Free Association takes effect, allowing the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia to become independent.

1990 – The first-ever website is released, after Tim Berners-Lee proposed the creation of the World Wide Web.

1992 - Riddick Bowe becomes heavyweight boxing world champion, defeating Evander Holyfield.

1994 - Michael Schumacher wins the first of his Formula One world titles.

1994 – Voters in Sweden approve entry to the EU.

1995 - A truck bomb explodes outside the US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing 5 Americans and 2 Indians.

1999 - Lennox Lewis becomes heavyweight boxing world champion, defeating Evander Holyfield.

2000 – Philippines: Articles of impeachment are passed against President Joseph Estrada.

From 2001

2001 – War on Terrorism: For the first time since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order that allows military tribunals against any foreigners believed of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

2001 – War in Afghanistan: Northern Alliance forces take Kabul.

2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off Galicia, causing a large oil spill.

2002 - Iraq agrees to let in UN Weapons Inspectors as part of the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

2005 – A chemical disaster occurs in Jilin, China, leading to the nearby river to be contaminated.

2010 – Following years of House Arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi is released in Burma.

2011 – Mario Monti is chosen to lead the Italian government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi.

2015 - Russia is provisionally suspended from international athletics competitions following a major doping scandal.

2015 - The November 2015 Paris attacks occur. At least 129 people are killed as attackers strike several sites across Paris late in the evening - at least 80 are killed at the Bataclan concert hall alone.

2017 - As four-time champion, the Italy national football team fails to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 60 years; The Sweden national football team qualifies in its place, making sure of its first appearance in the competition since 2006.

2019 - An emergency is declared in the city of Venice, Italy, because of record flooding.