WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 2013
Find out what all happened January to November 2013

An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days. (15. May 2013)

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands. (30. April 2013)

The United Nations mission MINUSMA begins its operative mandate in Mali. (1. July 2013)

At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. (25. January 2013)

Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others. (26. June 2013)

At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video. (15. August 2013)

British soldier Lee Rigby was murdered in a London Street during a terrorist attack. (22. May 2013)

Record smog closes schools, roadways, and the airport in Harbin, China. (21. October 2013)

A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing 3 and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board. (6. July 2013)

6 people are killed and 200 injured in a passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. (12. July 2013)

Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium. (11. February 2013)

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun. (27. June 2013)

Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 3 people and injuring 264 others. (15. April 2013)

27 people are killed and more than 30 injured, when a tanker truck crashes and explodes outside Mexico City. (7. May 2013)

The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. (3. October 2013)

Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in history hits the Visayas region in the Philippines. The typhoon killed 6,201 people as of 29 January 2014 and was considered the typhoon in the country. It caused around $1 billion in damages unofficially. (8. November 2013)

A train accident in India kills at least 37 people and injures over a dozen. (19. August 2013)

The smallest Extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered. (20. February 2013)

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others. (2. July 2013)

Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. (10. February 2013)