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- 1685
- When King James II decides the area of Delaware does not belong to Maryland, Sussex County by default implicitly gains remaining territory north of Maryland, and Somerset County implicitly regains area along the Atlantic coast between Delaware and Virginia and loses the northeastern tip in present-day Delaware.
- 1792
- Trenton is formed as a city within Trenton Township, New Jersey.
- 1895
- A statue of Edward Colston is unveiled in Bristol, England.
- 1907
- The Oslo Port Line opens in Oslo.
- 1918
- The Free State of Saxony is established as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic.
- 1922
- The First City National Bank Building opens in Manila.
- 1927
- The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic under the Hudson River, connecting New York City to Jersey City, New Jersey.
- 1942
- Kfar Szold is founded as a kibbutz in northern Israel.
- 1982
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- 2020
- A Sinsay clothing store opens in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on November 13, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on November 13 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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