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• ...that the brightly coloured shells of the Liguus snails (pictured) are so prized by collectors that some varieties are now extinct?
• ...that in 2007, Phil Collins' 1981 hit "In the Air Tonight" reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart after appearing in Cadbury's Gorilla advertising campaign?
• ...that after Anthony Kemp returned to England where he was questioned about his involvement in the overthrow of William Bligh as Governor of New South Wales, he again went south and became known as the "father of Tasmania"?
• ...that Bonawentura Niemojowski, a Polish politician during the Congress Poland period, became one of the most vocal supporters of the November Uprising against the Russian Empire and a leader of the revolutionary Polish government?
• ...that Wendy Kaminer's critique of the self-help movement, I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional, was highlighted among The New York Times' "Notable Books of the Year 1992"?
• ...that Peire d'Alvernhe is the only troubadour in whose works appear the Occitan phrase for "courtly love"?
• ...that Gerard of Lunel became widely venerated after it was reported snakes carried bread to him and his brother while they were trapped by a flood in a cave?
  

• An explosion at the Philippine House of Representatives building in Quezon City kills two persons, including Congressman Wahab Akbar.
• In France, rail workers and Paris Métro personnel go on strike in the first wave of public-sector strikes.
• Former Slovenian presidential election front-runner, conservative Lojze Peterle, concedes as left-wing candidate Danilo Türk wins in a landslide.
• More than 10,000 people in Kuala Lumpur participate in a rally (pictured) against corruption in the electoral process in Malaysia.
• A children's toy is subject to a worldwide recall after it was found to contain a chemical that metabolises into the anaesthetic GHB, which has caused the hospitalisation of several children.
• Glasgow is chosen to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games after voting by the Commonwealth Games Federation in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• In Belgium, government formation negotiations have gone on for a record 156 days as Dutch- and French-speaking politicians clash over the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde electoral district.

November 13:

• 1002 – St. Brice's Day massacre: King Ethelred II ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
• 1642 – First English Civil War: The Royalist army engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
• 1954 – Great Britain defeated France at the Parc des Princes in Paris to win the first Rugby League World Cup.
• 1970 – The Bhola tropical cyclone hit the densely populated Ganges Delta in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people.
• 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C. was dedicated.
• 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried Armero, Colombia and killed approximately 23,000 people.
• 2000 – Joseph Estrada became the first President of the Philippines to be impeached after he was accused of taking a sum of 400 million pesos in bribes from illegal gambling sources.

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