NOVEMBER 14

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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

External links

Events

★ 1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

★ 1889 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in seventy-two days.

★ 1910 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

★ 1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

★ 1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.

★ 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

★ 1923 - Kentaro Suzuki completed his ascent of Mount Iizuna

★ 1940 - World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.

★ 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS ''Ark Royal'' sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.

★ 1952 - First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.

★ 1959 - Clutter family murdered in rural Kansas, which inspired the Truman Capote novel, In Cold Blood.

★ 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

★ 1967 - ''Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.'', The Monkees' fourth album, is released.

★ 1967 - The Congress of Colombia in conmemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as: "Day of the Colombian Woman".

★ 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

★ 1970 - Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.

★ 1970 - The solo album 'Barrett' by former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett is released.

★ 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

★ 1971 - His Holiness Shenouda III was concescrated as the 117th Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

★ 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 Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

★ 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 in response to the hostage crisis.

★ 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

★ 1990 - After German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

★ 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 thirteen years of exile.

★ 1991 - In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.

★ 1995 - A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

★ 1997 - 14-year-old Reena Virk is beaten and then murdered by fellow teenagers Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski.

★ 2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.

★ 2001 - War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.

★ 2002 - Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.

★ 2002 - The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.

★ 2003 - Asteroid 90377 Sedna is discovered.

Births

★ 1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)

★ 1601 - Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)

★ 1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702)

★ 1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)

★ 1746 - Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal

★ 1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)

★ 1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)

★ 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)

★ 1778 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)

★ 1779 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850)

★ 1797 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)

★ 1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)

★ 1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)

★ 1812 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)

★ 1828 - James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d. 1864)

★ 1838 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)

★ 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)

★ 1875 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (d. 1944)

★ 1878 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)

★ 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)

★ 1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)

★ 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)

★ 1898 - Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)

★ 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)

★ 1904 - Harold Larwood, English cricketer (d. 1995)

★ 1904 - Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963)

★ 1905 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d. 1964)

★ 1906 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985)

★ 1907 - Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader (d. 1995)

★ 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)

★ 1907 - William Steig, American children's book author (d. 2003)

★ 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (d. 1957)

★ 1910 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (d. 1996)

★ 1912 - Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)

★ 1912 - T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003)

★ 1915 - Martha Tilton, American singer (d. 2006)

★ 1916 - Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)

★ 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer

★ 1919 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)

★ 1919 - Lisa Otto, German soprano

★ 1921 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)

★ 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General

★ 1922 - Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)

★ 1924 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982)

★ 1927 - Bart Cummings, Australian race horse trainer

★ 1927 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)

★ 1929 - Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player

★ 1930 - Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)

★ 1930 - Shirley Crabtree, professional wrestler (d. 1997)

★ 1930 - Monique Mercure, French Canadian actress

★ 1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut

★ 1934 - Catherine McGuinness, Irish Supreme Court Justice

★ 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)

★ 1936 - Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)

★ 1937 - Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer

★ 1943 - Peter Norton, American software engineer

★ 1945 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady

★ 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, American writer

★ 1947 - Bharathan, Malayalam film director (d. 1998)

★ 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales

★ 1949 - James Young, American guitarist (Styx)

★ 1951 - Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director

★ 1951 - Stephen Bishop, American musician

★ 1953 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France

★ 1954 - Bernard Hinault, French cyclist

★ 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State

★ 1954 - Yanni, Greek musician & composer

★ 1953 - Phil Baron, American voice actor

★ 1955 - Koichi Nakano, Japanese cyclist

★ 1956 - Alec John Such, American bassist (Bon Jovi)

★ 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor

★ 1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor

★ 1961 - D. B. Sweeney, American actor

★ 1962 - Laura San Giacomo, American actress

★ 1964 - Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter

★ 1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor

★ 1964 - Rev Run, American rapper

★ 1966 - Curt Schilling, American baseball player

★ 1966 - Petra Roßner, German cyclist

★ 1967 - Letitia Dean, British actress

★ 1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer

★ 1968 - Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress

★ 1969 - Butch Walker, recording artist

★ 1971 - Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer

★ 1971 - Marco Leonardi, Italian-Australian actor

★ 1972 - Matthew Bloom, American professional wrestler

★ 1972 - Josh Duhamel, American actor

★ 1972 - Edyta Górniak, Polish singer

★ 1972 - Martin Pike, Australian rules footballer

★ 1972 - Aaron Taylor, American football player

★ 1973 - Lawyer Milloy, American football player

★ 1973 - Dana Snyder, American voice actor

★ 1973 - Moka Only, Canadian musician

★ 1974 - Matt Cedeño, Cuban-American actor

★ 1974 - Adam Walsh, American murder victim (d. 1981)

★ 1975 - Travis Barker, American musician (Blink 182, +44)

★ 1977 - Obie Trice, American rapper

★ 1978 - Xavier Nady, American baseball player

★ 1978 - Mersing Nguyen, American actress

★ 1978 - Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player

★ 1979 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress

★ 1979 - Tobin Esperance, American musician (Papa Roach)

★ 1981 - Tom Ferrier, British racing driver

★ 1983 - Lil Boosie, American rapper

★ 1984 - Marija Šerifović, Serbian Singer

★ 1986 - Berta Grosser, German Actress

Deaths

★ 565 - Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)

★ 1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)

★ 1263 - Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir

★ 1359 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)

★ 1522 - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)

★ 1556 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504)

★ 1633 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)

★ 1687 - Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)

★ 1691 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)

★ 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)

★ 1734 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)

★ 1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)

★ 1817 - Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary (b. 1795)

★ 1825 - Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)

★ 1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)

★ 1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)

★ 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (b. 1737)

★ 1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)

★ 1866 - King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)

★ 1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)

★ 1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)

★ 1908 - The Guangxu Emperor of China, (b. 1871)

★ 1914 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)

★ 1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor (b. 1856)

★ 1916 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)

★ 1916 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)

★ 1937 - Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)

★ 1944 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)

★ 1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)

★ 1971 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)

★ 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)

★ 1974 - Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)

★ 1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (b. 1896)

★ 1981 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)

★ 1991 - Tony Richardson, English film director (b. 1928)

★ 1992 - Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b. 1925)

★ 1994 - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)

★ 1996 - John A. Cade, American politician (b. 1929)

★ 1997 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)

★ 2000 - Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)

★ 2001 - Charlotte Coleman, British actress (b. 1968)

★ 2002 - Eddie Bracken, American film actor (b. 1915)

★ 2003 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)

★ 2004 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)

★ 2004 - Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

★ Roman festivals - ''Equorum Probatio''

★ India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's Day

★ United States - National Children's Book Week begins

★ Colombia - "Day of the Colombian Woman"

★ Christian feast days

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★ Barlaam of Kiev

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★ Saint Philip, celebrated in Eastern Orthodox Church

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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