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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 until the end of the year.
[edit] Events
- 1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 order12170, 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 - Attack on 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 - Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
[edit] 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-born 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 Surrealist writer, essayist, 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 actress (d. 1985)
- 1907 - Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
- 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
- 1907 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator and anti-communist (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, 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, baseball player
- 1930 - Edward White, astronaut (d. 1967)
- 1930 - Shirley Crabtree, Professional wrestler better known as Big Daddy (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)
- 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer
- 1943 - Peter Norton, American software engineer and businessman
- 1945 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady
- 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
- 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
- 1955 - Koichi Nakano, Japanese cyclist
- 1956 - Alec John Such, American bassist (Bon Jovi)
- 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
- 1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor, director, writer
- 1961 - D. B. Sweeney, American actor
- 1962 - Laura San Giacomo, American actress
- 1964 - Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter
- 1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
- 1966 - Curt Schilling, baseball player
- 1966 - Petra Roßner, German cyclist
- 1967 - Letitia Dean, British actress
- 1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer and songwriter
- 1967 - David M. Sheridan, American Tie Down purveyor
- 1968 - Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
- 1969 - Butch Walker, recording artist, songwriter, and record producer
- 1971 - Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
- 1972 - Martin Pike, Australian footballer
- 1972 - Josh Duhamel, American actor
- 1972 - Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
- 1972 - Matthew Bloom, American wrestler
- 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, son of John Walsh (d. 1981)
- 1975 - Travis Barker, American drummer (Blink 182) (+44)
- 1977 - Obie Trice, American rapper
- 1978 - Xavier Nady, baseball player
- 1978 - Mersing Nguyen, American actress
- 1978 - Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
- 1979 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
- 1979 - Tobin Esperance, musician (Papa Roach)
- 1983 - Lil Boosie, American rapper
[edit] 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)
- 1825 - Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
- 1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist
- 1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
- 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (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, Malayali Journalist and Short story writer (b. 1861)
- 1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and author (b. 1856)
- 1916 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
- 1937 - Jack O'Connor, baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1944 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
- 1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
- 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
- 1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (b. 1896)
- 1981 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (assassinated} (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)
- 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, songwriter and conductor (b. 1939)
- 2006 - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
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November 13 - November 15 - October 14 - December 14 -- listing of all days
