Right now is Wednesday, Nov. 13, the 318th day of 2024. There are 48 days left within the yr.
Right now in historical past:
On Nov. 13, 2015, Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated assaults in Paris on the nationwide stadium, in a crowded live performance corridor, in eating places and on streets, killing 130 individuals within the worst assault on French soil since World Battle II.
Additionally on this date:
In 1775, in the course of the Revolutionary Battle, American troops captured Montreal underneath the command of Continental Military Gen. Richard Montgomery.
In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom affirmed a decrease court docket ruling which discovered Alabama bus segregation legal guidelines had been unlawful.
In 1971, the U.S. area probe Mariner 9 went into orbit round Mars, changing into the primary spacecraft to orbit one other planet.
In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was devoted on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, D.C.
In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the town.
In 2001, U.S.-backed Northern Alliance fighters in Afghanistan entered Kabul as Taliban forces retreated from the capital metropolis.
Right now’s Birthdays:
Actor Joe Mantegna is 77.
Hockey Corridor of Famer Gilbert Perreault is 74.
U.S. Lawyer Common Merrick Garland is 72.
Actor Frances Conroy is 72.
Actor Chris Noth is 70.
Actor-comedian Whoopi Goldberg is 69.
Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska is 60.
Discuss present host Jimmy Kimmel is 57.
Actor Steve Zahn is 57.
Actor Gerard Butler is 55.
Olympic swimming gold medalist Dana Vollmer is 37.
Actor Devon Bostick is 33.
Tennis participant Emma Raducanu is 22.
