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13 November, 2007
The New Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is Imploded at 2:30 A.M. In its place will be The Plaza Hotel.
13 November, 2007
The last Eurostar train left Waterloo Train Station for the last time.
13 November, 2002
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
13 November, 2002
The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
13 November, 2001
Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.
13 November, 2001
Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
13 November, 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.
13 November, 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.
13 November, 1994
Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
13 November, 1990
The World Wide Web first began.
13 November, 1989
Champion swimmer Victor Davis died as a result of injuries suffered after being hit by a car two days earlier.
13 November, 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.
13 November, 1985
Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Floridas first Cuban-born mayor.
13 November, 1982
A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim. Kims death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport.
13 November, 1982
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
13 November, 1971
The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
13 November, 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 centurys worst natural disaster.
13 November, 1969
Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic March Against Death.
13 November, 1965
The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
13 November, 1961
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
13 November, 1956
United States Supreme Court declares Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal; thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
13 November, 1954
Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
13 November, 1950
General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.
13 November, 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.
13 November, 1941
World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, sinking the next day.
13 November, 1927
The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
13 November, 1916
Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
13 November, 1909
Colliers magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
13 November, 1907
The first helicopter rose 2 m/6.5 ft above ground in Normandy.
13 November, 1887
Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
13 November, 1864
The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
13 November, 1851
The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington.
13 November, 1851
The telegraph service between London and Paris began operating.
13 November, 1841
James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
13 November, 1775
American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal, Quebec defended by British General Guy Carleton.
13 November, 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.
13 November, 1002
English king Ethelred orders killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brices Day massacre.

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