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What happened on November 13 in American history
November 13 is the 317th day of the year (the 318th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from November 13 spanning 1775 to 2001. Among them: in 1775, Montreal falls to Montgomery without a fight; Carleton slips away by river; and in 1927, the Holland Tunnel opens to traffic at 12:01 a.m.; cars can now drive under the Hudson.
1775
Montreal falls to Montgomery without a fight; Carleton slips away by river
Carleton judged the city indefensible, and contrary winds nearly kept his fleet in port while American troops crossed downstream.
1927Member story · 1776 Club
The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic at 12:01 a.m.; cars can now drive under the Hudson
Coolidge opened Saturday's ceremony by telegraph key from his yacht; two of the tunnel's chief engineers did not live to see the first car.
1942
Searchlights snap on at 3,000 yards, and a night battle breaks out off Guadalcanal
Callaghan's cruisers and destroyers meet Abe's battleships between Savo Island and Guadalcanal, and within minutes the formations dissolve into the dark.
1956
Supreme Court affirms Browder v. Gayle; Alabama's bus segregation laws fall
Four women arrested on Montgomery buses carried the suit, and the boycott that surrounded it has now run eleven months.
1982Member story · 1776 Club
Thousands of Vietnam veterans march to their memorial, and it is dedicated beside the Lincoln Memorial
Maya Lin's black granite walls, once called a "nihilistic slab of stone" by a Cabinet secretary, open with 57,939 names on them.
2001Member story · 1776 Club
Bush signs an order allowing military tribunals for foreign terror suspects
It was the first order of its kind since World War II, and the tribunals it creates can impose the death penalty.
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