November 14
November 14 is the 318th day of the year
(319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining.
Events
1800-1899
1900-1999
- 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 United States 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.
2000-2099
Births
1600-1899
- 1668 - Johann von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect (d. 1745)
- 1719 - Leopold Mozart,
Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart (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, composer and pianist
(d. 1847)
- 1828 - James B.
McPherson, American (Union) general (d. 1864)
- 1838 - August Senoa, Croat writer (d. 1881)
- 1840 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (d. 1926)
- 1878 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
- 1883 - Fred Quimby, American 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)
1900-1999
- 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 big band singer
- 1916 - Sherwood
Schwartz, American television writer, 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, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
- 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer
- 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke,
writer
- 1948 - Prince Charles, later Prince of
Wales
- 1951 - Stephen Bishop,
musician
- 1954 - Condoleezza Rice,
U.S. National Security
Advisor and Secretary of
State
- 1954 - Yanni, musician
- 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
- 1966 - Curt Schilling,
baseball pitcher
- 1967 - Letitia Dean, British actress
- 1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer, songwriter
- 1973 - Lawyer Milloy, American football player
Deaths
1300-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
November 13 - November
15 - October 14 - December
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