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What happened on 13 November?

7 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. 1002 St Brice's Day Massacre Æthelred orders the killing of Danes living in England; provokes vengeful invasions by Sweyn Forkbeard.
  7. 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.
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