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Events

• 1642 (384 years ago) First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
• 1947 (79 years ago) The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
• 1970 (56 years ago) Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (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.
• 1994 (32 years ago) In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
• 2000 (26 years ago) Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
• 2002 (24 years ago) Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
• 2015 (11 years ago) Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.

Births

• 354 (1672 years ago) Augustine of Hippo, Roman bishop and theologian (died 430)
• 1312 (714 years ago) Edward III of England,
• 1850 (176 years ago) Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (died 1894)
• 1934 (92 years ago) Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (died 2016)
• 1953 (73 years ago) Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former President of Mexico
• 1955 (71 years ago) Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host
• 1969 (57 years ago) Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
• 1969 (57 years ago) Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somalian-American activist and author

Deaths

• 867 (1159 years ago) Pope Nicholas I,
• 1460 (566 years ago) Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (born 1394)
• 1862 (164 years ago) Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (born 1787)
• 1868 (158 years ago) Gioachino Rossini, Italian pianist and composer (born 1792)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Camille Pissarro, Virgin Islander-French painter (born 1830)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Iskander Mirza, Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (born 1899)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Vittorio De Sica, Italian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1901)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (born 1928)

All 358 events, births and deaths of November 13