November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining.
1805 - Johann Georg Lehner invents the hot dog.
1940 - The animated feature-length film Fantasia is released.
1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1970 - Bhola cyclone: A 120-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 century's worst natural disaster).
1981 - The first Friday the 13th event held by motorcyclists in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.
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.
1990 - The first known World Wide Web page is written.
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 any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
Go WWW! On my birth date, too. Lots of disasters happen on my birthday...
Births
1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
1856 - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1941)
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedienne, and singer
A few, more interesting ones.
Deaths
867 - St. Nicholas I, Pope
1770 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
No other interesting ones there.

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