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Events on November 13

• 1493 On his second voyage, Christopher Columbus discovered the Caribbean island of Saba.
• 1805 During the War of the Third Coalition, Napoleon's troops enter Vienna without a fight, where they are received with curiosity by the population.
• 1872 As far as is known, the Baltic Sea is hit by its most severe storm surge to date. Waves several meters high surprise the sleeping coastal residents in the morning. 271 people lose their lives, and more than 15,000 become homeless.
• 1907 The Frenchman Paul Cornu achieves the world's first helicopter flight with his “flying bicycle,” at a height of 30 cm above the ground and for a flight duration of 20 seconds.
• 1925 The first Surrealist exhibition opens in Paris with works by Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, André Masson, Joan Miró and Pierre Roy.
• 1960 In Karlstein am Main, the Kahl experimental nuclear power plant, Germany's first nuclear power plant, begins operation.
• 1976 At a concert performance in Cologne, Wolf Biermann openly criticizes the GDR. Three days later, the performance serves as the reason for his expatriation.
• 1981 On the basis of a bet in betting that..? the actor Karlheinz Böhm founds the aid organization Menschen für Menschen.
• 1989 The People's Chamber of the GDR elects – for the first time in a secret ballot – Günther Maleuda as its President and Hans Modrow as Minister-President. In Erich Mielke's speech in his own defense, the words that became famous are spoken: “I love … I do love everyone … all people.”
• 1990 One day after Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau's concept for a worldwide hypertext project, the first website is published.
• 1994 In a referendum in Sweden, 52% of eligible voters opt for joining the EU.
• 2015 In Islamist-motivated terrorist attacks in Paris, 130 people die and 683 are injured. The series of attacks is directed against a football match at the Stade de France, a rock concert at the Bataclan Theatre, and numerous bars, cafés and restaurants.

Born on November 13

• 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer
• 1853 Arnold von Siemens, German industrialist
• 1904 Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, German lawyer and resistance fighter of the 20 July 1944 plot
• 1911 Heinz von Foerster, Austrian philosopher
• 1941 Eberhard Diepgen, German politician
• 1953 Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politician
• 1960 Neil Richard Flynn, American actor and comedian
• 1970 Rebecca Immanuel, German actress
• 2000 24kGoldn, American rapper
• 2002 Emma Raducanu, British tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „13. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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