November 14

November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and Observances
5 See Also

Events

1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published for the first time.
1862 - American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia (this led to a dramatic Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13).
1889 - Pioneer woman Journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days (Bly finished the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes).
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 destroyed by 500 German Luftwaffe bombers (150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, 130 parachute mines leveled 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people were killed).
1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sunk due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.
1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - In the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in Vietnam, the first major engagement of the war between regular American and North Vietnamese forces begins.
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 Virgina killing 75
1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
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 a commoner, Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey (they divorced in 1992).
1975 - Spain abandons Western Sahara.
1979 - Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and US banks in response to the hostage crisis.
1982 - The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.
1990 - Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder-Neisse line.
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 13 years of exile.
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 staff.
2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development creating a stable Mozilla browser upon which it is based.
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 215 to 203, not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.

Births

1668 - Johann von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect (d. 1745)
1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1776 - Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
1779 - Adam Oehlenschlager, Danish poet
1797 - Charles Lyell, British geologist
1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer
1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn, composer and pianist (d. 1847)
1828 - James McPherson, American (Union) general (d. 1864)
1840 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (d. 1926)
1883 - Fred Quimby, American producer
1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1923 (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 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
1908 - Joseph McCarthy, American politician (d. 1957)
1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, television writer, producer
1919 - Veronica Lake, actress (d. 1973)
1921 - Brian Keith, actor (d. 1997)
1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General
1929 - Jimmy Piersall, baseball star
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
1954 - Yanni, musician
1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
1966 - Curt Schilling, Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher, baseball star

Deaths

1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher, mathematician
1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (* 1709)
1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician
1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician
1915 - Booker T. Washington, inventor
1916 - H.H. "Saki" Munro, British writer
1946 - Manuel de Falla, composer
2000 - Robert Trout, journalist

Holidays and Observances

India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's day