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November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap
years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days
remaining.
Events
- 1851 - Herman Melville's
novel Moby-Dick is published for the first time.
- 1862 - American Civil
War: Union President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose
Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia (this led to a dramatic Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg on December
13).
- 1889 - Pioneer woman Journalist Nellie
Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days (Bly finished the journey in
72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes).
- 1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes
a republic.
- 1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- 1940 - World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is destroyed by
500 German Luftwaffe bombers (150,000
fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, 130 parachute mines leveled 60,000 of
the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people were killed).
- 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sunk due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia
Drang begins - In the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in
Vietnam, the first major engagement of the war between regular American and North
Vietnamese forces begins.
- 1969 - Apollo program:
NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned
mission to the surface of the Moon.
- 1970 - Southern Airways
DC-9 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virgina killing 75
- 1971 - Mariner program:
Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
- 1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
- 1973 - In the United Kingdom,
Princess Anne marries a commoner, Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey (they divorced in 1992).
- 1975 - Spain abandons Western Sahara.
- 1979 - Iran hostage
crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170,
freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and US banks in response to the hostage crisis.
- 1982 - The leader of Poland's outlawed
Solidarity movement, Lech
Walesa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet
border.
- 1990 - Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder-Neisse line.
- 1991 - American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
- 1991 - Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of
exile.
- 1995 - A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the United States Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and run most
government offices with skeleton staff.
- 1998 - Dennis Rodman and
Carmen Electra were married in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 2000 - Netscape
Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source
development creating a stable Mozilla browser upon which it is based.
- 2001 - Attack on Afghanistan: Northern
Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.
- 2002 - Argentina defaults on a US$805
million World Bank payment.
- 2002 - The US House of
Representatives votes 215 to 203, not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
- 2003 - Discovery of Sedna
Births
- 1668 - Johann von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect (d.
1745)
- 1719 - Leopold Mozart,
Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
- 1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist
- 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
- 1779 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet
- 1797 - Charles Lyell, British geologist
- 1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer
- 1805 - Fanny
Mendelssohn, composer and pianist (d. 1847)
- 1828 - James B.
McPherson, American (Union) general (d. 1864)
- 1840 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (d.
1926)
- 1883 - Fred Quimby, American producer
- 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru,
Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
- 1891 - Frederick
Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1923 (d. 1941)
- 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1979)
- 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
- 1904 - Dick Powell, actor (d.
1963)
- 1906 - Louise Brooks, actress
(d. 1985)
- 1907 - Astrid Lindgren,
Swedish writer (d. 2002)
- 1908 - Joseph McCarthy,
American politician (d. 1957)
- 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, television writer,
producer
- 1919 - Veronica Lake, actress
(d. 1973)
- 1921 - Brian Keith, actor (d.
1997)
- 1922 - Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General
- 1929 - Jimmy Piersall,
baseball star
- 1929 - McLean Stevenson, actor (d. 1996)
- 1930 - Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- 1935 - King Hussein of
Jordan (d. 1999)
- 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer
- 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke,
writer
- 1948 - Prince Charles, later Prince of
Wales
- 1951 - Stephen Bishop, musician
- 1954 - Condoleezza Rice,
U.S. National Security Advisor
- 1954 - Yanni, musician
- 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
- 1966 - Curt Schilling,
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher, baseball star
Deaths
- 1716 - Gottfried
Leibniz, philosopher, mathematician
- 1746 - Georg Steller, German
naturalist (b. 1709)
- 1844 - John Abercrombie,
British physician
- 1907 - Andrew Inglis
Clark, Australian politician
- 1915 - Booker T.
Washington, inventor
- 1916 - H.H. "Saki" Munro, British writer
- 1946 - Manuel de Falla,
composer
- 1997 - Eddie Arcaro,
throroughbred racing jockey
- 2000 - Robert Trout, journalist
Holidays and observances
- India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's day
November 13 - November
15 - October 14 - December
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