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My name is Jack, and today I have another episode of this day in World History for November 13.
On November 13, 1002, english king athelred the unready ordered the St.
Brices Day massacre, a brutal and indiscriminate killing of danish settlers in England.
On November 13, 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he famously wrote, in this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
On November 13, 1833, the first recorded college football game took place between Princeton and Rutgers in New Jersey, USA.
On November 13, 1927.
The Holland Tunnel, the first tunnel under the Hudson river connecting New Jersey and New York, opened to traffic on November 13, 1942.
The Battle of Guadalcanal during World War Two began in the Pacific.
On November 13, 1985, the volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted in Colombia, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero and resulted in the deaths of around 25,000 people.
On November 13, 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, including shootings and suicide bombings at various locations, resulting in the deaths of 130 people.
And these are just a few examples and various other events, births and deaths have also occurred on November 13 throughout history.
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