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===November=== * [[November 5]] – The uncrewed [[Mars Orbiter Mission]] is launched by India from its launch pad in [[Sriharikota]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ram |first=Arun |date=2013-11-05 |title=Mars mission starts, Mangalyaan launched successfully |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mars-mission-starts-Mangalyaan-launched-successfully/articleshow/25259358.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107190855/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-05/india/43693030_1_orbiter-mission-mars-orbiter-mission-director-p-kunhikrishnan |archive-date=2013-11-07 |access-date=2013-11-05 |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> * [[November 8]] – [[Typhoon Haiyan]] (Yolanda), one of the strongest [[tropical cyclone]]s on record, hits the [[Philippines]] and [[Vietnam]], causing devastation with at least 6,241 people dead.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337 |title=Typhoon Haiyan: Thousands feared dead in Philippines |date=2013-11-10 |work=BBC News |access-date=2013-11-10 |archive-date=November 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113120653/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 12]] – ''[[Three Studies of Lucian Freud]]'', a series of portraits of [[Lucian Freud]] by the [[United Kingdom|British]] painter [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]], sells for [[United States dollar|US$]]142.4 million in a [[New York City]] auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bacon painting fetches record price|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24922106|access-date=November 14, 2013|date=November 13, 2013|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|archive-date=November 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114015858/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24922106|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYT sale">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/arts/design/bacons-study-of-freud-sells-for-more-than-142-million.html|title=At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=November 12, 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 13, 2013|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401110459/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/arts/design/bacons-study-of-freud-sells-for-more-than-142-million.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[November 17]] **Fifty people are killed when [[Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363]] crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. **A [[Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013|tornado outbreak]] occurs in [[Illinois]], United States. [[2013 Washington, Illinois, tornado|An EF4 tornado in Washington]] causes $935 million (${{inflation|US|.935|2013|r=3}} billion adjusted) of property damage, killing 3 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.weather.gov/ilx/17nov13 |title=Historic Tornado Outbreak of November 17, 2013 |publisher=[[National Weather Service Central Illinois]] }}</ref> * [[November 21]] ** [[Euromaidan]] pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] rejects an economic association agreement between the [[European Union]] and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2013/12/23/81532/ukraines-euromaidan-now-comes-the-hard-part/|title=Ukraine's Euromaidan: Now Comes the Hard Part|last=Welt|first=Cory|date=2013-12-23|access-date=2017-02-11|work=Center for American Progress|archive-date=December 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225050758/http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2013/12/23/81532/ukraines-euromaidan-now-comes-the-hard-part/|url-status=live}}</ref> ** [[Moldova]]n-[[ship registration|flagged]] [[cargo ship]] {{MV|Rhosus}} makes port in [[Beirut, Lebanon]], carrying 2,750 tonnes of [[ammonium nitrate]]. After inspection by port state control, the ''Rhosus'' is deemed [[seakeeping|unseaworthy]], and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in [[2014]] and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a [[2020 Beirut explosion|massive explosion]] on [[August 4]], [[2020]].<ref name="rhosus.shiparrested">{{cite journal |url=https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf#page=3 |title=m/v Rhosus β Arrest and Personal Freedom of the Crew |date=October 2015 |number=11 |journal=The Arrest News |access-date=8 August 2020 |first1=Charbel |last1=Dagher |first2=Christine |last2=Maksoud |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805004609/https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="rhosus.bbc">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53683082|title=How ship's deadly cargo ended up at Beirut port|date=6 August 2020|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=August 21, 2020|archive-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204075050/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53683082|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[November 24]] – [[Iran]] [[Geneva interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program|agrees]] to limit their [[Nuclear program of Iran|nuclear development program]] in exchange for sanctions relief.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/23/world/meast/iran-nuclear-talks-geneva/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=Obama: Iran nuclear deal limits ability to create nuclear weapons|last1=Sciutto|first1=Jim|date=November 24, 2013|publisher=CNN|last2=Carter|first2=Chelsea|access-date=November 24, 2013|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204061733/https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/23/world/meast/iran-nuclear-talks-geneva/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25074729|title=Iran agrees to curb nuclear activity at Geneva talks|publisher=BBC|date=November 24, 2013|access-date=June 21, 2018|archive-date=March 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326082514/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25074729|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[November 29]] β A police helicopter [[2013 Glasgow helicopter crash|crashes]] into The Clutha, a pub in [[Glasgow]], Scotland, killing 10 people and injuring 31.
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