Today is Thursday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2025. There are 48 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Nov. 13, 1909, 259 men and boys were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Illinois.

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In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, American troops captured Montreal under the command of Continental Army Gen. Richard Montgomery.

In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling which found Alabama bus segregation laws were illegal.

In 1971, the U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the

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