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November 13

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St. Augustine

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2015

Terrorist attacks in Paris

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2001: On the heels of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan prompted by the deadly terrorist attacks of September 11, the army of the anti- Taliban Northern Alliance captured the capital city of Kabul. [Take our quiz about the history of warfare.]

1985: Mount Ruiz in the Cordillera Central of the Andes, in west-central Colombia, erupted twice, burying the town of Armero on the Lagunilla River and killing an estimated 25,000 people. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about mountains.]

1980: Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, a biopic about boxer Jake La Motta, had its world premiere and became an American classic, especially known for the Oscar-winning performance of Robert De Niro. [Test your knowledge of movies.]

1940: The animated film Fantasia had its first public screening, and it became one of Disney 's more controversial works, derided for its portentousness and praised for its stunning visual virtuosity. [Take our Disney quiz.]

1916: During World War I a costly four-month Allied offensive against German positions along the Somme River ended. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about World War I.]

1850: Robert Louis Stevenson—the Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books who was best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1889)—was born. [Find out if any of Robert Louis Stevenson's works made our list of the 12 novels considered the "greatest book ever written." ]

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