November 14

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 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.
• 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 heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers.
• 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.
• 1952 – First UK 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.
• 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 Virginia, killing 75.
• 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 Walesa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
• 1990 – Germany modifies its Basic Law to recognise 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 – A fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five, before committing suicide.
• 1993 – Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers.
• 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 run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
• 1998 – Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra are married in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 2000 – Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
• 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 to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
• 2003 – Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.

Births

• 1668 – Johann von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect (d. 1745)
• 1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1828 – James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d. 1864)
• 1838 – August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)
• 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
• 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 1923 Nobel Prize in medicine (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 – Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
• 1907  – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Martha Tilton, American singer
• 1916 – Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer
• 1919 – Veronica Lake, actress (d. 1973)
• 1919  – Lisa Otto, German soprano
• 1921 – Brian Keith, actor (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General
• 1929 – Jimmy Piersall, baseball player
• 1929  – McLean Stevenson, actor (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Edward White, astronaut (d. 1967)
• 1935 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• 1939 – Wendy Carlos, American composer
• 1947 – P. J. O'Rourke, writer
• 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales
• 1951 – Stephen Bishop, musician
• 1954 – Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
• 1954  – Yanni, musician
• 1959 – Paul McGann, British actor
• 1964 – Bill Hemmer, news anchor (American Morning)
• 1966 – Curt Schilling, baseball player
• 1967 – Letitia Dean, British actress
• 1967  – Nina Gordon, American singer and songwriter
• 1972 – Martin Pike, Australian Rules footballer
• 1973 – Lawyer Milloy, American football player
• 1978 – Xavier Nady, baseball player

Deaths

• 1263 – Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• 1359 – Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
• 1716 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)
• 1746 – Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
• 1825 – Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
• 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)
• 1907 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
• 1915 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and author (b. 1856)
• 1916 – Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
• 1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
• 1972 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
• 1997 – Eddie Arcaro, jockey (b. 1916)
• 2000 – Robert Trout, journalist (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2004 – Harry Lampert, illustrator (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances

• India – Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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