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is the 318th
day
of the
year
(319th in
leap year
s) in the
Gregorian Calendar
, with 47 days remaining until the end of the year.
November 14
Events
Births
Deaths
Holidays and observances
top
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.
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
bomb
ed by
German
Luftwaffe
bomber
s.
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 Vietnam
ese forces.
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
mountain
s 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 order
12170, freezing all
Iran
ian 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
month
s 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
indictment
s against two
Libya
n
intelligence
officials in connection with the downing of the
Pan Am Flight 103
.
1991 -
Cambodia
n
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 park
s and
museum
s 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.
top
Births
1567
-
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
(d.
1625
)
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 pysiologist (d.
1802
)
1776
-
Henri Dutrochet
, French physiologist (d.
1847
)
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
)
1859
-
Alexandru Averescu
, Romanian soldier and politician (d.
1938
)
1875
-
Jakob Schaffner
, Swiss novelist (d.
1944
)
1878
-
Leopold Staff
, Polish poet (d.
1957
)
1883
-
Fred Quimby
, American film producer (d.
1965
)
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
1916
-
Roger Apéry
, French mathematician (d.
1994
)
1916 -
Sherwood Schwartz
, American television writer and producer
1919
-
Veronica Lake
, American actress (d.
1973
)
1919 -
Lisa Otto
, German soprano
1921
-
Brian Keith
, American actor (d.
1997
)
1922
-
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
, Egyptian
UN Secretary-General
1924
-
Leonid Borisovitch Kogan
, Russian violinist (d.
1982
)
1927
-
Bart Cummings
, Australian race horse trainer
1929
-
Jimmy Piersall
, baseball player
1930
-
Edward White
, astronaut (d.
1967
)
1930 -
Shirley Crabtree
, Professional wrestler better known as Big Daddy (d.
1997
)
1934
-
Catherine McGuinness
, Irish Supreme Court Justice
1935
- King
Hussein of Jordan
(d.
1999
)
1939
-
Wendy Carlos
, American composer
1939 -
McLean Stevenson
, American actor (d.
1996
)
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
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
1959
-
Paul McGann
, British actor
1961
-
Gordon Jennison Noice
, American actor, director, writer
1964
-
Bill Hemmer
, American television news reporter
1966
-
Curt Schilling
, baseball player
1966 -
Petra Roßner
, German cyclist
1967
-
David Sheridan
, American Industralist
1967 -
Letitia Dean
, British actress
1967 -
Nina Gordon
, American singer and songwriter
1969
-
Butch Walker
, recording artist, songwriter, and record producer
1971
-
Adam Gilchrist
, Australian cricketer
1972
-
Martin Pike
, Australian footballer
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 Bloom
, American professional wrestler
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
1979
-
Mavie Hörbiger
, German actress
1979 -
Tobin Esperance
, musician (
Papa Roach
)
1982
-
Stephen Hughes
, Scottish footballer
1983
-
Lil Boosie
, American rapper
top
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.
1732
)
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
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
)
2003
-
Gene Anthony Ray
, American actor (b.
1962
)
2004
-
Margaret Hassan
, Irish-born aid worker (b.
1945
)
top
Holidays and observances
Roman festivals
-
Equorum Probatio
India
-
Birthday
of
Jawaharlal Nehru
:
Children's Day
United States
-
National Children's Book Week
begins
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