the United Nations Security Council, making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council. Jordan takes the seat on December 6. November November 5 – The uncrewed Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launch pad 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 world record for an auctioned work of art. November 17 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. 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. Moldovan-flagged cargo ship makes port in Beirut, Lebanon, carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. After inspection by port state control, the Rhosus is deemed unseaworthy, and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in 2014 and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a massive explosion on August 4, 2020. November 24 – Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief. December December 7 – Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers. December 14 – Chinese uncrewed spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so. December 15 – Fighting between ethnic Dinka and Nuer members of the presidential guard break out in Juba, South Sudan, plunging the country into civil war. Births July 22 – Prince George of Wales Deaths January January 1 – Patti Page, American singer (b. 1927) January 2 Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and woman's history author (b. 1920) Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945) January 3 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (b. 1930) January 4 – Tony Lip, American actor (b. 1930) January 7 David R. Ellis, American film director (b. 1952)