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<a title="Valdis Dombrovskis" href="/wiki/File:Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg"><img width="66" height="100" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg/100px-Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg/133px-Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg 2x" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg/66px-Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg" alt="Valdis Dombrovskis"></a>
- Latvian Prime Minister <a title="Valdis Dombrovskis" href="/wiki/Valdis_Dombrovskis">Valdis Dombrovskis</a> (pictured) <a title="Valdis Dombrovskis" href="/wiki/Valdis_Dombrovskis#Resignation">resigns</a> following the <a title="Riga supermarket roof collapse" href="/wiki/Riga_supermarket_roof_collapse">Riga supermarket roof collapse</a>.
- A 1640 copy of the <a title="Bay Psalm Book" href="/wiki/Bay_Psalm_Book">Bay Psalm Book</a> sells for US$14.2 million at auction, a record for a printed book.
- The earliest known <a title="Buddhism" href="/wiki/Buddhism">Buddhist</a> shrine is uncovered at <a title="Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini" href="/wiki/Maya_Devi_Temple,_Lumbini">Maya Devi Temple</a> in <a title="Lumbini" href="/wiki/Lumbini">Lumbini</a>, Nepal.
- In <a title="Canadian football" href="/wiki/Canadian_football">Canadian football</a>, the <a title="Saskatchewan Roughriders" href="/wiki/Saskatchewan_Roughriders">Saskatchewan Roughriders</a> defeat the <a title="Hamilton Tiger-Cats" href="/wiki/Hamilton_Tiger-Cats">Hamilton Tiger-Cats</a> to win the <a title="101st Grey Cup" href="/wiki/101st_Grey_Cup">101st Grey Cup</a>.
- <a title="Iran" href="/wiki/Iran">Iran</a> signs an interim <a title="Geneva interim agreement on Iranian nuclear program" href="/wiki/Geneva_interim_agreement_on_Iranian_nuclear_program">agreement</a> with the <a title="P5+1" href="/wiki/P5%2B1">P5+1 countries</a>, limiting its <a title="Nuclear program of Iran" href="/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran">nuclear program</a> in exchange for reduced <a title="Sanctions against Iran" href="/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran">sanctions</a>.
<a title="Deaths in 2013" href="/wiki/Deaths_in_2013">Recent deaths</a>: <a title="Arik Einstein" href="/wiki/Arik_Einstein">Arik Einstein</a> – <a title="Maurice Vachon" href="/wiki/Maurice_Vachon">Maurice Vachon</a>
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<a title="November 29" href="/wiki/November_29">November 29</a>: <a title="Liberation Day (Albania)" href="/wiki/Liberation_Day_(Albania)">Liberation Day</a> in Albania (<a title="1944" href="/wiki/1944">1944</a>)
<a title="Joint session of the Diet of Japan" class="image" href="/wiki/File:The_Diet.jpg"><img width="100" height="67" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Diet.jpg/150px-The_Diet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Diet.jpg/200px-The_Diet.jpg 2x" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Diet.jpg/100px-The_Diet.jpg" alt="Joint session of the Diet of Japan"></a>
- <a title="1549" href="/wiki/1549">1549</a> – After the death of <a title="Pope Paul III" href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_III">Pope Paul III</a>, <a title="Papal conclave, 1549–50" href="/wiki/Papal_conclave,_1549%E2%80%9350">a papal conclave</a> with an unprecedented number of <a title="Cardinal (Catholicism)" href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)">cardinal electors</a> convened to determine his successor.
- <a title="1777" href="/wiki/1777">1777</a> – <a title="San Jose, California" href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California">El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe</a>, the first civil settlement in the <a title="Spanish colonization of the Americas" href="/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas">Spanish colony</a> of <a title="Alta California" href="/wiki/Alta_California">Alta California</a>, was founded as a farming community.
- <a title="1890" href="/wiki/1890">1890</a> – The <a title="National Diet" href="/wiki/National_Diet">Diet of Japan</a> (pictured in session), a <a title="Bicameralism" href="/wiki/Bicameralism">bicameral</a> <a title="Legislature" href="/wiki/Legislature">legislature</a> modelled after both the German <a title="Reichstag (German Empire)" href="/wiki/Reichstag_(German_Empire)">Reichstag</a> and the British <a title="Westminster system" href="/wiki/Westminster_system">Westminster system</a>, first met after the <a title="Meiji Constitution" href="/wiki/Meiji_Constitution">Meiji Constitution</a> went into effect.
- <a title="1963" href="/wiki/1963">1963</a> – Five minutes after takeoff from Montreal, <a title="Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831" href="/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831">Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831</a> crashed, killing all 118 people aboard.
- <a title="2007" href="/wiki/2007">2007</a> – Philippine soldiers led by Senator <a title="Antonio Trillanes IV" href="/wiki/Antonio_Trillanes_IV">Antonio Trillanes</a>, on trial for the 2003 <a title="Oakwood mutiny" href="/wiki/Oakwood_mutiny">Oakwood mutiny</a>, <a title="Manila Peninsula rebellion" href="/wiki/Manila_Peninsula_rebellion">staged a mutiny</a> and temporarily seized a conference room in <a title="The Peninsula Manila" href="/wiki/The_Peninsula_Manila">The Peninsula Manila</a> hotel.
More anniversaries: <a title="November 28" href="/wiki/November_28">November 28</a> – <a title="November 29" href="/wiki/November_29">November 29</a> – <a title="November 30" href="/wiki/November_30">November 30</a>
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