What happened on 13 November?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1850 Born: Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish novelist; Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
2. 2015 November 2015 Paris attacks Coordinated terrorist attacks across Paris, including the Bataclan theatre, kill 130.
3. 1780 Born: Ranjit Singh Founder of the Sikh Empire in the Punjab; modernised its army and bureaucracy.
4. 1830 Stendhal's The Red and the Black Bildungsroman of Julien Sorel; foundational psychological realism.
5. 1913 Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature First non-European laureate; honoured for Gitanjali and his lyric poetry.
6. 1913 Pankhurst's 'Freedom or Death' speech On a fundraising tour of America between prison spells, Pankhurst justifies militancy in Hartford: women will win the vote or die in the attempt.
7. 1002 St Brice's Day Massacre Æthelred orders the killing of Danes living in England; some historians see Sweyn Forkbeard's later invasions as revenge for it.
8. 1981 Canadarm first flies The shuttle's Canadian-built robot arm deploys on STS-2 and becomes the country's best-known technology — its successor now works on the ISS.
9. 1947 Gide wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Honoured for writings in which 'human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth'.