French master chef Vincent La Chapelle formed a Freemason’s Lodge in the Netherlands.
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Category five Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people with gusts up to 145 miles per hour.
The Camp Fire in California became that state's deadliest blaze after it killed 88 people and caused 52,000 people to be evacuated.
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered x-rays.
George H. W. Bush was elected as the 41st President of the United States of America.
Canadian country singer Shania Twain released her Greatest Hits album and later received Billboard's 2004 Album of the Year.
