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November 13

November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining.

Events:

• 1775 - United States revolutionary forces capture Montreal
• 1941 - Unterseeboot 81 sinks British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
• 1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastniy[?] succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin[?] as head of Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB).
• 1971 - Mariner 9 reaches Mars.
• 1982 - Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a bout that changes the landscape of boxing forever.
• 1985 - A mudslide buries Armero, Colombia[?], killing approximately 23,000 people.
• 2001 - World Trade Organization ends a four day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar (known as the Doha Round[?]).
• 2001 - Kathleen Soliah (Sara Jane Olsen) withdraws her previous guilty plea.
• 2002 - Iraq agrees to the UN Security Council resolution on Iraq

Births:

• 354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, theologian (+ 430)
• 1312 - King Edward III of England
• 1715 - Dorothea Christiane Erxleben[?], Germany's first female physician (+ 1762)
• 1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (+ 1844)
• 1833 - Edwin Booth[?], actor
• 1848 - Albert I of Monaco, (+ 1922)
• 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (+ 1894)
• 1856 - Louis Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1869 - Helene Stöcker[?], pacifist (+ 1943)
• 1886 - Mary Wigman[?], dancer, choreographer (+ 1973)
• 1922 - Oskar Werner, actor (+ 1984)
• 1856 - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court justice
• 1916 - Jack Elam[?], ctor
• 1922 - Jack Narz[?], game show host
• 1933 - Peter Härtling[?], writer and publisher
• 1934 - Garry Marshall[?], producer, director, writer, actor
• 1938 - Jean Seberg, actress (+ 1979)
• 1947 - Joe Mantegna[?], actor
• 1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, actress, comedienne

Deaths:

• 867 - St. Nicholas I, Pope
• 1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland
• 1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg, "the Bear", margrave
• 1460 - Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince and patron of African exploration
• 1868 - Gioacchino Rossini, composer
• 1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italin film director
• 1974 - Karen Silkwood[?], union activist

Holidays and Observances:

Interesting but unimportant:

• 2002 - Former NBA basketball player Manute Bol[?], 7 foot 7 (91 inches) tall, gets signed to join an ice hockey team, setting his sights on possibly becoming the first African in the NHL in the future.

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