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.
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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.
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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.
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1889 - Pioneer woman
journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the
world in less than 80 days.
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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.
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1918 -
Czechoslovakia becomes a
republic.
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1921 - The
Communist Party of Spain is founded.
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1922 - The
British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins
radio service in the
United Kingdom.
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1940 -
World War II: In
England, the city of
Coventry is heavily
bombed by
German Luftwaffe bombers.
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1941 -
World War II: The
aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to
torpedo damage from
U 81 sustained on
November 13.
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1952 - First regular
UK singles chart published by the
New Musical Express.
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1965 -
Vietnam War:
Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular
American and
North Vietnamese forces.
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1969 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches
Apollo 12, the second
manned mission to the surface of the
Moon.
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1970 -
Southern Airways DC-9 crashes in the
mountains near
Huntington,
West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the
Marshall University football team.
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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.
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1972 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
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1973 - In the
United Kingdom,
Princess Anne marries
Captain Mark Phillips, in
Westminster Abbey.
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1975 -
Spain abandons
Western Sahara.
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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.
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1982 -
Lech Wałęsa, the leader of
Poland's outlawed
Solidarity movement, is released after eleven
months of
internment near the
Soviet border.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2000 -
Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of
open source development.
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2001 -
Attack on Afghanistan:
Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital
Kabul.
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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.
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2003 -
Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
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2006 - A new
Sonic the Hedgehog video game called
Sonic the Hedgehog is coming out for the
X-Box 360 and the
Sony PS3.
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1567 -
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d.
1625)
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1650 - King
William III of England (d.
1702)
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1719 -
Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d.
1787)
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1746 -
Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal
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1765 -
Robert Fulton, American inventor (d.
1815)
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1771 -
Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pysiologist (d.
1802)
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1776 -
Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d.
1847)
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1779 -
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d.
1850)
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1797 -
Charles Lyell, British geologist (d.
1875)
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1803 -
Jacob Abbott, American writer (d.
1879)
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1805 -
Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d.
1847)
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1812 -
Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d.
1878)
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1828 -
James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d.
1864)
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1838 -
August Senoa, Croatian writer (d.
1881)
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1840 -
Claude Monet, French painter (d.
1926)
*
1859 -
Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (d.
1938)
*
1878 -
Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d.
1957)
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1883 -
Fred Quimby, American film producer (d.
1965)
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1889 -
Jawaharlal Nehru,
Prime Minister of India (d.
1964)
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1891 -
Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1941)
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1896 -
Mamie Eisenhower,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1979)
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1898 -
Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French Surrealist writer, essayist, and filmmaker (d.
1944)
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1900 -
Aaron Copland, American composer (d.
1990)
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1904 -
Harold Larwood, English cricketer (d.
1995)
* 1904 -
Dick Powell, American actor (d.
1963)
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1905 -
John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d.
1964)
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1906 -
Louise Brooks, American actress (d.
1985)
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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)
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1908 -
Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator and anti-communist (d.
1957)
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1910 -
Eric Malpass, English novelist (d.
1996)
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1912 -
Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d.
1979)
* 1912 -
T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d.
2003)
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1915 -
Martha Tilton, American singer
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1916 -
Roger Apéry, French mathematician (d.
1994)
* 1916 -
Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer
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1919 -
Veronica Lake, American actress (d.
1973)
* 1919 -
Lisa Otto, German soprano
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1921 -
Brian Keith, American actor (d.
1997)
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1922 -
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian
UN Secretary-General*
1924 -
Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (d.
1982)
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1927 -
Bart Cummings, Australian race horse trainer
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1929 -
Jimmy Piersall, baseball player
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1930 -
Edward White, astronaut (d.
1967)
* 1930 -
Shirley Crabtree, Professional wrestler better known as Big Daddy (d.
1997)
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1934 -
Catherine McGuinness, Irish Supreme Court Justice
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1935 - King
Hussein of Jordan (d.
1999)
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1939 -
Wendy Carlos, American composer
* 1939 -
McLean Stevenson, American actor (d.
1996)
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1943 -
Peter Norton, American software engineer and businessman
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1945 -
Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady
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1947 -
P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
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1948 -
Charles, Prince of Wales*
1951 -
Stephen Bishop, American musician
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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
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1959 -
Paul McGann, British actor
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1961 -
Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor, director, writer
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1964 -
Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter
*
1966 -
Curt Schilling, baseball player
* 1966 -
Petra Roßner, German cyclist
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1967 -
Letitia Dean, British actress
* 1967 -
Nina Gordon, American singer and songwriter
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1969 -
Butch Walker, recording artist, songwriter, and record producer
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1971 -
Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
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1972 -
Martin Pike, Australian footballer
* 1972 -
Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
* 1972 -
A-Train, Professional wrestler
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1973 -
Lawyer Milloy, American football player
* 1973 -
Dana Snyder, American voice actor
* 1973 -
Moka Only, Canadian musician
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1975 -
Travis Barker, American drummer (
Blink 182)
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1977 -
Obie Trice, American rapper
*
1978 -
Xavier Nady, baseball player
*
1979 -
Tobin Esperance, musician (
Papa Roach)
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1982 -
Stephen Hughes, Scottish footballer
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565 -
Justinian the Great,
Byzantine Emperor (b.
483)
*
1226 -
Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b.
1193)
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1263 -
Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
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1359 -
Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b.
1296)
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1522 -
Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b.
1461)
*
1556 -
Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b.
1504)
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1633 -
William Ames, English philosopher (b.
1576)
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1687 -
Nell Gwynne, English mistress of
Charles II of England (b.
1650)
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1691 -
Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b.
1617)
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1716 -
Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b.
1646)
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1734 -
Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of
Charles II of England (b.
1649)
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1746 -
Georg Steller, German naturalist (b.
1709)
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1825 -
Jean Paul, German writer (b.
1763)
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1829 -
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist
*
1831 -
Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b.
1770)
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1832 -
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (b.
1732)
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1844 -
John Abercrombie, British physician (b.
1780)
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1866 - King
Miguel of Portugal (b.
1802)
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1872 -
Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b.
1788)
*
1907 -
Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b.
1848)
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1908 - The
Guangxu Emperor of China, (b.
1871)
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1914 -
Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar,
Malayali Journalist and Short story writer (b.
1861)
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1915 -
Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and author (b.
1856)
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1916 -
Saki, British writer (b.
1870)
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1937 -
Jack O'Connor, baseball player (b.
1869)
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1944 -
Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b.
1873)
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1946 -
Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b.
1876)
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1972 -
Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b.
1900)
*
1977 -
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of
ISKCON (b.
1896)
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1981 -
Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (assassinated} (b.
1941*
1992 -
Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b.
1925)
*
1994 -
Tom Villard, American actor (b.
1953)
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1997 -
Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b.
1916)
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2000 -
Robert Trout, American journalist (b.
1908)
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2003 -
Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b.
1962)
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2004 -
Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b.
1945)
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Roman festivals -
Equorum Probatio*
India -
Birthday of
Jawaharlal Nehru:
Children's Day*
United States -
National Children's Book Week begins
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