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On this day November 13

2015


WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.

2015


A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th and 11th arrondissements kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.

2012


A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific

2011


Mario Monti accepted to become the 54th Prime Minister of Italy with the ouster of Silvio Berlusconi, who failed to tackle Italy's debt crisis.

2002


Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

2001


War on Terror: 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.

2000


Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.

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.

1994


In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.

1992


The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.

1990


In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.

1989


Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.

1986


The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.

1985


Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.

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.

1982


The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

1982


Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.

1974


Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.

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.

1969


Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.

1966


In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.

1956


The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1954


Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.

1950


General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.

1947


The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.

1942


World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

1941


World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.

1940


Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.

1927


The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

1918


Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

1916


Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.

1914


Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.

1901


The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.

1887


Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

1864


The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.

1851


The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.

1841


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

1775


American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.

1642


First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.

1553


After the suppression of Wyatt's rebellion, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Lady Jane Grey and three others are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Queen Mary I of England.

1160


Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.

1093


Battle of Alnwick English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are slain.

1002


English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

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