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November 19, 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 November 13, 2013, covering November 19, 2013.

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    Album cover for Reflektor by Arcade Fire

    Reflektor

    Arcade Fire

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    Album cover for PRISM by Katy Perry

    PRISM

    Katy Perry

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    Album cover for Wrapped In Red by Kelly Clarkson

    Wrapped In Red

    Kelly Clarkson

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    Album cover for Duck The Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas by The Robertsons

    Duck The Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas

    The Robertsons

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    Album cover for Nothing Was The Same by Drake

    Nothing Was The Same

    Drake

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Notable Deaths

Babe Birrer

2013Babe Birrer, American baseball player (born 1928)[†]

Werner Joseph Birrer was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. Listed at 6' 0", 195 lb., Birrer batted and threw right handed. He was born in Buffalo, New York. Graduated from Kensington High School in Buffalo, New York (1947). Signed by Detroit Tigers Scout "Cy" Williams, not the ball player in 1947.

Dora Dougherty Strother

2013Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (born 1921)[†]

Dora Jean Dougherty Strother was an American aviator best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell Aircraft, instructor at the University of Illinois and helicopter test pilot for Bell Aircraft.

Ray Gosling

2013Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (born 1939)[†]

Raymond Arthur Gosling was an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and gay rights activist.

Frederick Sanger

2013Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)[†]

Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.

2013Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (born 1915)[†]

Charlotte Zolotow was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children. She wrote about 70 picture book texts.

Historical Events

2013 Iranian embassy bombing in Beirut

2013A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.[†]

The 2013 Iranian embassy bombing in Beirut was a double suicide bombing in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon on 19 November 2013. The two bombings resulted in 23 deaths and injured at least 160 others.

Historical Context for November 19, 2013

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