Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 13

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 * 1002 – King Æthelred II ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
 * 1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
 * 1914 – Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
 * 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
 * 1963 – A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.
 * 1966 – The Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu in response to a Fatah land mine incident.
 * 1974 – In Amityville, New York, Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed the other six members of his family, later inspiring the book The Amityville Horror and the subsequent media franchise.
 * 1985 – Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.


 * Born/died this day: | Dorothea Erxleben |b|1715| Theophilus H. Holmes |b|1804| Petar II Petrović-Njegoš |b|1813| Anne Dallas Dudley |b|1876 | Arthur Nebe |b|1894| Gerry Adams  |b|1948| Moshe Pesach |d|1955| Teodora Ungureanu |b|1960| Maria Vladimirovna Mironova |d|1997|