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14 November is the 318th Day of the Year (319th in Leap Year s) 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.
- 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.
- 1911 - 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 Corporation (BBC) begins Radio service in the United Kingdom .
- , the city of Coventry is heavily Bomb ed by German Luftwaffe Bomber s.
- 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 .
- begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnam ese forces.
- 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.
- 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 .
- 1978 - Jonestown Massacre : 913 people commit suicide by drinking a cyanide laced punch.
- 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 - 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.
- 2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of Open Source development.
- 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.
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 )
- 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 )
- 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
- 1939 - McLean Stevenson , American actor (d. 1996 )
- 1930 - Edward White , astronaut (d. 1967 )
- 1934 - Catherine McGuinness , Irish Supreme Court Justice
- 1935 - King Hussein Of Jordan (d. 1999 )
- 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
- 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
- 1959 - Paul McGann , British actor
- 1964 - Bill Hemmer , American television news reporter
- 1966 - Curt Schilling , baseball player
- 1967 - Letitia Dean , British actress
- 1967 - Nina Gordon , American singer and songwriter
- 1967 - Ithryn Luin, American Jewelry Artist
- 1971 - Adam Gilchrist , Australian cricketer
- 1972 - Martin Pike , Australian footballer
- 1972 - Edyta Górniak , Polish singer
- 1973 - Lawyer Milloy , American football player
- 1973 - Dana Snyder , American voice actor
- 1975 - Travis Barker , American drummer ( Blink 182 )
- 1978 - Xavier Nady , baseball player
- 1979 - Tobin Esperance , musician of papa roach
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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
Holidays and observances
External links
November 13 - November 15 - October 14 - December 14 -- Listing Of All Days
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