November 13: Twin Holy Birthdays begin (Bahá'í Faith, 2015)
Destruction of Armero, Colombia
- 1642 – First English Civil War: The Royalist army engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
- 1841 – Scottish surgeon James Braid observed a demonstration of animal magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called hypnotism.
- 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound, premiered in thirteen cities across the United States.
- 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia (destruction pictured), and killed approximately 23,000 people.
- 1990 – A man began shooting people indiscriminately in Aramoana, New Zealand, killing thirteen people in the country's deadliest criminal shooting.
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