Talk:November 13

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November 13: 1002 – St. Brice's Day massacre: King Ethelred II ordered the massacre of all Danes in England. 1642 – First English Civil War: The Royalist army engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex. 1954 – Great Britain defeated France at the Parc des Princes in Paris to win the first Rugby League World Cup. 1970 – The Bhola tropical cyclone hit the densely populated Ganges Delta in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people. 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C. was dedicated. 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried Armero, Colombia and killed approximately 23,000 people. 2000 – Joseph Estrada became the first President of the Philippines to be impeached after he was accused of taking a sum of 400 million pesos in bribes from illegal gambling sources. More events: November 12 – November 13 – November 14 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 10:27, June 13, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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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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• 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

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• 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)

[edit] LP's

THE LP's MET AT CYO ON NOVEMBER 13th!!!!!!!!! 2005