2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS-NOVEMBER

  • November 5 : Mangalyaan is launched by India from its launchpad in Sriharikota.
  • November 8 : Typhoon Haiyan ("Yolanda"), one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.
  • November 12 : Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
  • November 21 : Euromaidan pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych rejects an economic association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.
  • November 24 : Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.

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