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- 0867 St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
- 1093 Scotland's Malcolm III MacDuncan and his eldest son Edward are entrapped and killed November 13 at a place that will be called Malcolm's Cross Malcolm has been laying siege to Alnwick in an invasion of England, his wife Margaret dies 4 days later, and he is succeeded by his brother Donald Bane, who will reign until 1097
- 1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
- 1642 At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
- 1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
- 1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
- 1839 The first US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
- 1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
- 1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
- 1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
- 1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington.
- 1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
- 1854 The ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
- 1864 The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
- 1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
- 1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
- 1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
- 1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
- 1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
- 1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
- 1895 The first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
- 1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
- 1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
- 1909 Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
- 1921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
- 1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
- 1926 Visitor posting - James W. Smith was born - USA
- 1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, first twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
- 1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
- 1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
- 1933 The first modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
- 1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
- 1940 Walt Disney's"Fantasia" released
- 1941 World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, sinking the next day.
- 1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
- 1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
- 1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.
- 1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
- 1955 The first live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
- 1956 United States Supreme Court declares Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal; thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1959 Visitor posting - john pollacek jr born on fri 13 th - USA
- 1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
- 1961 Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
- 1961 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
- 1965 The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
- 1965 The cruise ship "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
- 1965 Warrant Officer KA Wheatley, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), awarded posthumously the first Victoria Cross won in Vietnam
- 1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
- 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Hugo Montenegro Orchestra - The Good The Bad And The Ugly
- 1968 Visitor posting - SH Yellow born Kiki - Malaysia
- 1969 Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic March Against Death.
- 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.
- 1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
- 1970 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
- 1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
- 1971 Mariner 9, first to orbit another planet (Mars)
- 1971 Number one hit on UK music charts - Slade - Coz I Luv You
- 1971 The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
- 1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
- 1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
- 1978 NASA launches HEAO
- 1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
- 1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
- 1982 A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport.
- 1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
- 1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance
- 1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
- 1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56
- 1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
- 1985 Visitor posting - Levi Turnbull born - Canada [email protected]
- 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.
- 1985 Visitor posting - Clayton Gerrian was born =) - USA
- 1985 Visitor posting - Lucky C. was born in New York City. It was an epic day. =) - USA
- 1985 Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
- 1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
- 1988 Visitor posting - November 13, 1988 Kendra Williams was born
- 1988 Visitor posting - Gerardo Cardenas was born - Mexico
- 1990 The World Wide Web first began.
- 1991 Visitor posting - cassy seagraves was born - USA
- 1991 Visitor posting - Normans birthday
- 1992 Visitor posting - Kamal Patwa was born on nov 13 fri, INDIA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Rebecca Anne born Fri. Nov. 13. Illinois. - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Teenage Author, Leon Evans, was born. - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Robert Micheal Fagan born - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Christel Dian Patterson born-Germany
- 1994 Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
- 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.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Brianna Britney born to Enrique & Diana Chavez - USA
- 1999 Visitor posting - Chloe Margaret Winston was born. Parents are Robin and Charlitta Winston, Indianapolis, Indiana. - USA
- 2001 Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.
- 2001 Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
- 2001 War on Terrorism: 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.
- 2002 The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
- 2005 Visitor posting - The great ShivaliMuthuvel born in Madurai,India - India
- 2007 An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six.
- 2009 38 people are killed in collapsed school buildings and road accidents caused by heavy snowfall in China, the heaviest in 60 years.
- 2009 A bomb hits the Peshawar office of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency with at least seven people dead and 35 injured.
- 2009 A court in Buenos Aires declares Argentinean law restricting marriage to a man and a woman unconstitutional, allowing a same-sex couple to marry; the city government announces it will not appeal.
- 2009 Actor and film director Clint Eastwood is made a commander of the Légion d'honneur.
- 2009 American politician William J. Jefferson, former Democratic Party Congressman from the U.S. state of Louisiana, is sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption.
- 2009 At least 240 villages in southwestern Saudi Arabia are evacuated due to fighting between Yemeni Houthi rebels and Saudi forces along the border.
- 2009 Cambodia detains a Thai man on charges of spying for Thailand. (Bangkok Post) (Times Live South Africa)
- 2009 Chinese nationals in Angola say they are increasingly being targeted in "mafia-style" attacks by Angolan gangs.
- 2009 Czech Prime minster Jan Fischer deposits the Treaty of Lisbon ratification instrument at the Italian foreign ministry in Rome.
- 2009 Four members of Algeria's national football team are injured when their bus comes under attack by stone throwers in Cairo, Egypt.
- 2009 Jersey's Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur hosts the 13th summit of the British–Irish Council.
- 2009 Kosovo prepares for historic elections after a flare-up earlier this week targeted Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in the western town of Decan
- 2009 Microsoft admits that the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool contains code that is covered by the Gnu Public License and offers to make it available under the terms of that license.
- 2009 NASA claims to have discovered water after the LCROSS satellite crashes near the South Pole of the Moon
- 2009 Philippines President Gloria Arroyo signs a law banning torture, making it a criminal offence punishable by up to 30 years imprisonment.
- 2009 South African President Jacob Zuma says the police do not have a "licence to kill" after recent incidents of innocent people being killed by police.
- 2009 Tens of thousands of Maoist supporters in Nepal block the headquarters for the Nepali government for a second day.
- 2009 The Japan Coast Guard evacuates 28 passengers and crew from the Ariake commercial ferry after it rolls over onto its side in rough seas off Mie Prefecture in the Pacific Ocean.
- 2009 The Turkish government unveils a plan to improve rights of the Kurdish minority to end the decades long ethnic conflict in the southeast of the country.
- 2009 The United States opens its first marijuana cafe.
- 2009 The diaries of Gareth Jones, a British reporter who exposed the 1933 famine in Ukraine, are put on public display for the first time.
- 2009 Two people are killed and 43 rescued from a bomb shelter in a fire that triggered multiple explosions at an arms depot near Ulyanovsk, western Russia.
- 2009 Visitor posting - AJ & CH share an awkward phone call - the start of something truly special - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - The young author, Victoria Bailey, was born. - USA
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