November 14

November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire
• 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
• 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 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
• 1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
• 1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme ends.
• 1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
• 1921 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
• 1922 – The 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. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
• 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
• 1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
• 1952 – The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
• 1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
• 1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
• 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
• 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
• 1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
• 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
• 1971 – Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
• 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 Iranian 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 months of internment near the Soviet border.
• 1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
• 1990 – After German reunification, the 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 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 – 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 parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
• 2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
• 2002 – Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
• 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
• 2007 – The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.

Births

• 1567 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
• 1601 – Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
• 1650 – King William III of England (d. 1702)
• 1663 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer of vocal and keyboard music (d. 1712)
• 1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father (d. 1787)
• 1740 – Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)
• 1746 – Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal (d. 1822)
• 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)
• 1777 – Nathaniel Claiborne, U.S. politician (d. 1859)
• 1778 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)
• 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)
• 1812 – Maria Christina of Savoy, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1836)
• 1816 – John Curwen, British music educator (d. 1880)
• 1828 – James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d. 1864)
• 1838 – August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)
• 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
• 1863 – Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)
• 1875 – Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (d. 1899)
• 1875 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot (d. 1966)
• 1878 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
• 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
• 1891 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
• 1895 – Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
• 1896 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
• 1898 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)
• 1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
• 1904 – Harold Haley, American judge (d. 1970)
• 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 dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
• 1907 – Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader (d. 1995)
• 1907 – William Steig, American children's book author (d. 2003)
• 1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American politician (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 (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
• 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
• 1927 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Shirley Crabtree, aka Big Daddy, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player
• 1930 – Charles De Sorgher, Belgian bobsledder
• 1930 – Edward Higgins White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
• 1930 – Monique Mercure, Canadian actress
• 1930 – Michael Robbins, British actor (d. 1992)
• 1932 – Gunter Sachs, German mathematician
• 1933 – Fred Haise, American astronaut
• 1934 – Kurt Hamrin, Swedish football player
• 1934 – Catherine McGuinness, Irish Supreme Court Justice
• 1935 – Michael Busselle, English photographer and writer (d. 2006)
• 1935 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• 1935 – Lefteris Papadopoulos, Greek lyricist and journalist
• 1936 – Carey Bell, American blues musician (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
• 1936 – Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1990)
• 1937 – Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939 – Wendy Carlos, American composer
• 1943 – Peter Norton, American software engineer
• 1944 – Karen Armstrong, British author
• 1945 – Paul Hirsch, American film editor
• 1945 – Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady (d. 2005)
• 1947 – Bharathan, Malayalam film director (d. 1998)
• 1947 – P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
• 1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco, American zydeco musician
• 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales
• 1949 – Raul Di Blasio Argentine pianist, composer, producer
• 1949 – Gary Grubbs, American actor
• 1949 – James Young, American guitarist (Styx)
• 1951 – Frankie Banali, American rock drummer
• 1951 – Sandahl Bergman, American actress
• 1951 – Stephen Bishop, American musician
• 1951 – Leszek Cichy, Polish mountaineer
• 1951 – Alec John Such, American musician (Bon Jovi)
• 1951 – Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director
• 1953 – Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
• 1953 – Phil Baron, American voice actor
• 1954 – Bernard Hinault, French cyclist
• 1954 – Condoleezza Rice, American educator, diplomat and 66th United States Secretary of State
• 1954 – Yanni, Greek musician & composer
• 1954 – Anson Funderburgh, blues guitar player and band leader
• 1955 – Jack Sikma, American basketball player
• 1956 – Peter R. de Vries, Dutch crime reporter
• 1957 – Michael J Fitzgerald, American writer
• 1959 – Paul Attanasio, American screenwriter and producer
• 1959 – Paul McGann, British actor
• 1960 – Tom Judson, American actor and composer
• 1960 – Remi Moses, English footballer
• 1961 – Antonio Flores, Spanish singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
• 1961 – Elizabeth Keifer, American actress
• 1961 – D. B. Sweeney, American actor
• 1962 – Laura San Giacomo, American actress
• 1962 – Satomi Kōrogi, Japanese voice actress
• 1962 – Harland Williams, Canadian-born actor
• 1964 – Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter
• 1964 – Rockie Lynne, American musician
• 1964 – Rev Run, American rapper
• 1964 – Patrick Warburton, American actor
• 1966 – Curt Schilling, American baseball player
• 1966 – Petra Roßner, German cyclist
• 1967 – Letitia Dean, British actress
• 1967 – Nina Gordon, American singer
• 1968 – Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
• 1968 – Serge Postigo, Canadian actor
• 1969 – Butch Walker, recording artist
• 1970 – Brendan Benson, American musician (The Raconteurs)
• 1970 – David Wesley, American basketball player
• 1971 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
• 1971 – Marco Leonardi, Italian-Australian actor
• 1972 – Matthew Bloom, American professional wrestler
• 1972 – Josh Duhamel, American actor
• 1972 – Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
• 1972 – Martin Pike, Australian rules footballer
• 1972 – Aaron Taylor, American football player
• 1973 – Kareem Campbell, American skateboarder
• 1973 – Lawyer Milloy, American football player
• 1973 – Moka Only, Canadian musician
• 1973 – Dana Snyder, American voice actor
• 1974 – Matt Cedeño, Cuban-American actor
• 1974 – David Moscow, American actor
• 1975 – Travis Barker, American musician (Blink-182, +44)
• 1975 – Luiz Bombonato Goulart, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Nicolai Cleve Broch, Norwegian actor
• 1975 – Faye Tozer, British musician (Steps)
• 1975 – Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian/American wine expert
• 1977 – Obie Trice, American rapper
• 1978 – Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
• 1978 – Michala Banas, New Zealand actress
• 1978 – Delphine Chanéac, French model, actress and DJ
• 1978 – Xavier Nady, American baseball player
• 1978 – Chris Shar, American musician (Stiffed (band)), (Man Man), (Santigold)
• 1979 – Rallia Christidou, Greek singer
• 1979 – Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
• 1979 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian model and actress
• 1979 – Miguel Sabah, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Brock Pierce, American actor
• 1981 – Vanessa Bayer, American comedian
• 1981 – Tom Ferrier, British racing driver
• 1981 – Russell Tovey, British actor
• 1982 – Kyle Orton, American football player
• 1983 – Lil Boosie, American rapper
• 1983 – Guillermo Moscoso, American baseball player
• 1984 – Courtney Johns, Australian rules footballer
• 1984 – Lisa De Vanna, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
• 1985 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Yuna, Malaysian indie singer
• 1987 – Giorgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer
• 1989 – Jake Livermore, English footballer
• 1990 – Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
• 1991 – Taylor Hall, Canadian hockey player
• 2002 – Ben Bowen, American brain cancer victim (d. 2005)

Deaths

• 565 – Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
• 1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (b. 1193)
• 1263 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian noble (b. 1220)
• 1359 – Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
• 1391 – Nikola Tavelić, Croatian saint (b. 1340)
• 1522 – Anne 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)
• 1749 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (b. 1713)
• 1817 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary figure (b. 1795)
• 1825 – Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
• 1829 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
• 1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
• 1831 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano manufacturer (b. 1757)
• 1832 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (b. 1737)
• 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 – Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
• 1914 – Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
• 1915 – Booker T. Washington, American educator and activist (b. 1856)
• 1916 – Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
• 1916 – Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
• 1937 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English RAF Officer (b. 1892)
• 1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
• 1947 – Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873)
• 1950 – Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish writer and poet (b. 1914)
• 1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
• 1971 – William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
• 1974 – Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1977 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
• 1984 – Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (b. 1916)
• 1984 – Nikitas Platis, Greek actor (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Tony Richardson, English film director (b. 1928)
• 1992 – Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b. 1925)
• 1994 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
• 1996 – John A. Cade, American politician (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (b. 1905)
• 1999 – Minos Volanakis, Greek theatre director and translator
• 2000 – Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Charlotte Coleman, British actress (b. 1968)
• 2001 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Eddie Bracken, American film actor (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Elena Nikolaidi, Turkish-born Greek-American opera singer (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Sumner Shapiro, United States Navy Rear Admiral (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Wes Santee, American middle distance runner (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

• Children's Day, celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru. (India)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Barlaam of Kiev
  • Philip the Apostle (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Serapion of Algiers
  • November 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the Colombian Woman (Colombia)
• Equorum Probatio, the official cavalry parade of the equites, is held. (Roman Empire)
• World Diabetes Day (International)

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