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November 5, 2013

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 2013, covering November 5, 2013.

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    Album cover for Lightning Bolt by Pearl Jam

    Lightning Bolt

    Pearl Jam

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    Album cover for Bangerz by Miley Cyrus

    Bangerz

    Miley Cyrus

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    Album cover for New by Paul McCartney

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    Paul McCartney

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    Album cover for Nothing Was The Same by Drake

    Nothing Was The Same

    Drake

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    Album cover for Magpie And The Dandelion by The Avett Brothers

    Magpie And The Dandelion

    The Avett Brothers

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Notable Deaths

Habibollah Asgaroladi

2013Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (born 1932)[†]

Habibollah Asgaroladi Mosalman was a leading senior Iranian conservative and principlist politician who was the leader of Islamic Coalition Party, a highly influential conservative political party in Iran. He was also a Vice President and two-time presidential candidate, first in July 1981 and next in 1985. During his 1981 bid, he was the target of a failed assassination attempt that killed his bodyguard but left him mostly unharmed.

Juan Carlos Calabró

2013Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (born 1934)[†]

Juan Carlos Calabró was an Argentine actor and comedian.

2013Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (born 1919)[†]

Thomas Clifford "Tony" Iveson DFC AE was a Royal Air Force pilot and veteran of the Second World War, and one of the Few.

Charles Mosley (genealogist)

2013Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (born 1948)[†]

Charles Gordon Mosley was a British genealogist who specialised in British nobility. He was an author, broadcaster, editor, and publisher, best known for having been Editor-in-Chief of Burke's Peerage & Baronetage —its first update since 1970—and of the re-titled 107th edition, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (2003).

2013Charlie Trotter, American chef and author (born 1959)[†]

Charlie Trotter was an American chef and restaurateur. His best-known restaurant, Charlie Trotter's, was open in Chicago from 1987 to 2012.

2013Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1930)[†]

Stuart Grenville Williams was a Welsh international footballer who played as a defender. He played his club football for Wrexham, West Bromwich Albion and Southampton.

Historical Events

Mars Orbiter Mission

2013India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.[†]

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan, is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was India's first interplanetary mission and it made ISRO the fourth space agency to achieve Mars orbit, after Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency. It made India the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit, first national space agency In the world to do so with an indigenously developed propulsion system and the second national space agency in the world to do so on its maiden attempt after the European Space Agency did aboard a Roscosmos Soyuz/Fregat rocket in 2003.

Historical Context for November 5, 2013

In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]