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Luke Williams, Notts County's head coach

In their 2022–23 season, Notts County competed in the National League, the fifth-highest tier in the English football league system. The team was involved in a race with Wrexham for the league title and the solitary automatic promotion place. Notts County finished second with 107 points and qualified for the play-offs, beating Chesterfield on penalties in the 2023 National League play-off final to be promoted to the English Football League. Led by head coach Luke Williams (pictured), they played 51 competitive matches, winning 34, drawing 13 and losing 4, and broke numerous club records. Macaulay Langstaff scored 42 goals during the campaign, setting new club and league records for the most goals scored by a player in a single season. The necessity of a team with such a high points tally having to win promotion via the play-offs prompted discussion about increasing the number of promotion and relegation places between the National League and EFL. The team's rivalry with Wrexham was featured in the TV programme Welcome to Wrexham. (Full article...)

Loudoun County Courthouse

• ... that the Loudoun County Courthouse (pictured) hosted the first case in the Southern United States with an all-black legal team?
• ... that Swiss painter Augustin Meinrad Bächtiger depicted biblical figures in modern clothes amid local mountains?
• ... that the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Ripped Pants" was based on an embarrassing incident that happened to creator Stephen Hillenburg when he was a child?
• ... that according to oral tradition, Na Atanga became the ruler of two islands because his brother was so out of control, their mother sent him off to conquer other islands to stop him from killing them?
• ... that Jotham's fable has been read as a warning against societies that settle for unworthy leaders instead of persuading the best to serve?
• ... that Texas soprano Mary Carson sued Thomas Edison for his refusal to pay her for recordings she made for his company?
• ... that two new species of mite were discovered on the leaves of Clematis terniflora var. mandshurica?
• ... that Ruth Ellen Gruber was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland almost three decades after its communist government expelled her?
• ... that nettle ale was once drunk by those ailing from jaundice?

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Jensen Huang

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) resigns amidst allegations of being targeted by Chinese spies and of having extramarital affairs.
• The End of Everything by M. John Harrison wins the Booker Prize.
• Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's oldest and most prominent independent newspapers, closes under pressure from the Russian authorities.
• In stock car racing, Kyle Larson wins the NASCAR Cup Series.

November 13

Site of the Amityville murders

• 1809 – As part of the Persian Gulf campaign, a British flotilla arrived at and launched an amphibious assault on Ras Al Khaimah.
• 1945 – FC Dynamo Moscow opened their exhibition tour of the United Kingdom with a 3–3 draw against Chelsea, breaking the attendance record for a British club football match.
• 1966 – Arab–Israeli conflict: In response to a Fatah landmine incident, the Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu.
• 1974 – Six members of the DeFeo family were murdered in their home (house pictured) in Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville Horror and a subsequent media franchise.
• 1992 – In Dietrich v The Queen, the High Court of Australia ruled that, although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay in most circumstances in which an accused is unrepresented.