Talk:November 13

--mav 00:46, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Selected anniversaries for the "On this day" section of the Main Page

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November 13 Nevado del Ruiz 1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: American forces captured Montreal without significant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec. 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people. 2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others. Dorothea Erxleben (b. 1715) Moshe Pesach (d. 1955) Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1989) Giovanni Reyna (b. 2002) More anniversaries: November 12 November 13 November 14

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1982 - Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a bout that changes the landscape of boxing forever.

How? I admit I don't follow the sport, but this is the first I'vew heard of any Korean hegemony 20 years ago. --Charles A. L. 13:19, Nov 13, 2003 (UTC)

Duk Koo Kim (why is that backwards?) clarified, but "change[d] the landscape of boxing forever." had a whiff of unencyclopediacness about it. --Charles A. L. 14:14, Nov 13, 2003 (UTC)

Notice to "1805": It is reported, that Johann Georg Lahner first "Wiener's" created at May 15, 1805 in Vienna. --195.93.60.142 20:37, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

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Removed:

• 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.

Unimportant trivia is not supposed to be on this page. --mav

Removed:

• 1789 - Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, pens "...in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Unimportant trivia is not supposed to be on this page. --mav

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• 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

According to NASA it happened on November 14. --mav 07:05, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Removed

• 2007 – Opie and Anthony unofficial website, opieanthony.net was deleted.

Not a death. aldibibable (talk) 18:41, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

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The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi (Georgian Orthodox Church)

@Mufka: It's neither wrong nor unsupported:

--Kober^Talk 14:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Births and Deaths

Continuing the ongoing effort to reduce the size of the Births and Deaths sections to make them manageable, I'm removing some celebrities with few or no articles in other wikipedias, moving the entries to the appropriate Year in Topic article if they were not already present. This is in accordance with the guidelines. Deb (talk) 11:53, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

removed Feronia

I removed Feronia, as per Wikipedia:Days of the year " observances that are currently celebrated (not the date it was once celebrated or will be celebrated)."--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 14:51, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

November 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) is omitted

Why? —71.105.243.101 (talk) 14:30, 13 November 2023 (UTC)