November 14

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November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 47 days remain 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 Burton 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, 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 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.
• 1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
• 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 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.
• 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
• 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
• 2010 – Germany's Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula One's Drivers Championship to become the sport's youngest champion.
• 2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.

Births

• 1567 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
• 1601 – Jean Eudes, French missionary, founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary and Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge (d. 1680)
• 1663 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer (d. 1712)
• 1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, conductor, and violinist (d. 1787)
• 1746 – Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian cardinal (d. 1822)
• 1765 – Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor, invented the steamboat (d. 1815)
• 1771 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
• 1776 – Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
• 1777 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American politician (d. 1859)
• 1778 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)
• 1779 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (d. 1850)
• 1797 – Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist and lawyer (d. 1875)
• 1803 – Jacob Abbott, American author (d. 1879)
• 1805 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
• 1812 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)
• 1812 – Maria Cristina of Savoy (d. 1836)
• 1816 – John Curwen, English minister and educator (d. 1880)
• 1828 – James B. McPherson, American general (d. 1864)
• 1838 – August Šenoa, Croatian author, poet, and critic (d. 1881)
• 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
• 1861 – Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian (d. 1932)
• 1863 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist (d. 1944)
• 1875 – Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (d. 1899)
• 1875 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author (d. 1944)
• 1877 – John Biller, American jumper (d. 1934)
• 1878 – Julie Manet, French painter (d. 1966)
• 1878 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
• 1883 – Ado Birk, Estonian politician (d. 1942)
• 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
• 1891 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1895 – Walter Jackson Freeman II, American physician (d. 1972)
• 1895 – Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1896 – Mamie Eisenhower, American wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 36th First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
• 1898 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French poet, critic, and philosopher (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 singer and guitarist (d. 1964)
• 1906 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader, 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1907 – William Steig, American author (d. 2003)
• 1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American politician (d. 1957)
• 1910 – Eric Malpass, English author (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Barbara Hutton, American philanthropist (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Tung-Yen Lin, Chinese-American engineer, designed the Guandu Bridge (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Martha Tilton, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Park Chung-hee, Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (d. 1979)
• 1919 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
• 1919 – Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1919 – Lisa Otto, German soprano (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Paul Bassim, Lebanese bishop (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat 6th Secretary General of the United Nations
• 1924 – Leonid Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Lawrie Barratt, English businessman, founded Barratt Developments (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Bart Cummings, Australian horse trainer
• 1927 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1928 – Kathleen Hughes, American film, stage, and television actress
• 1929 – Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player
• 1930 – Charles De Sorgher, Belgian bobsledder
• 1930 – Peter Katin, English pianist
• 1930 – Monique Mercure, Canadian actress
• 1930 – Michael Robbins, English actor (d. 1992)
• 1930 – Edward Higgins White, American engineer and astronaut (d. 1967)
• 1932 – Gunter Sachs, German mathematician (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Fred Haise, American astronaut
• 1934 – Ellis Marsalis, Jr., American jazz pianist
• 1934 – Catherine McGuinness, Irish judge
• 1935 – Michael Busselle, English photographer and author (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• 1935 – Lefteris Papadopoulos, Greek songwriter and journalist
• 1936 – Carey Bell, American singer and harmonica player (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
• 1936 – Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters and The Flairs) (d. 1990)
• 1937 – Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939 – Wendy Carlos, American composer
• 1942 – Natalia Gutman, Russian cellist
• 1943 – Peter Norton, American software programmer and author
• 1944 – Karen Armstrong, English author
• 1944 – David Nash, English sculptor
• 1945 – Louise Ellman, English politician
• 1945 – Paul Hirsch, American film editor
• 1945 – Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian wife of Olusegun Obasanjo, 11th First Lady of Nigeria (d. 2005)
• 1946 – Roland Duchâtelet, Belgian businessman and politician
• 1947 – Bharathan, Indian director (d. 1998)
• 1947 – P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist and author
• 1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco, American accordion player
• 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales
• 1948 – Paul Dacre, English journalist, editor of the Daily Mail
• 1948 – Michael Dobbs, English novelist
• 1949 – Raúl di Blasio, Argentine pianist, composer, and producer
• 1949 – Gary Grubbs, American actor
• 1949 – James Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Styx)
• 1950 – Sarah Radclyffe, English film producer
• 1951 – Frankie Banali, American drummer and songwriter (Quiet Riot and W.A.S.P.)
• 1951 – Sandahl Bergman, American actress
• 1951 – Stephen Bishop, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1951 – Leszek Cichy, Polish mountaineer
• 1951 – Alec John Such, American bass player (Bon Jovi)
• 1951 – Zhang Yimou, Chinese director
• 1952 – Johnny A., American guitarist
• 1953 – Phil Baron, American voice actor
• 1953 – Tim Bowler, English, children's author
• 1953 – Dominique de Villepin, French politician, Prime Minister of France
• 1954 – Yanni, Greek-American pianist, composer, and producer (Chameleon)
• 1954 – Anson Funderburgh, American guitarist and bandleader
• 1954 – Bernard Hinault, French cyclist
• 1954 – Condoleezza Rice, American diplomat, 66th United States Secretary of State
• 1955 – Philip Egan, English Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth
• 1955 – Jack Sikma, American basketball player
• 1956 – Babette Babich, American philosopher
• 1956 – Peter R. de Vries, Dutch journalist
• 1956 – Steve Stockman, American politician
• 1957 – Nicola Brewer, English former High Commissioner to South Africa
• 1957 – Michael J. Fitzgerald, American author
• 1959 – Paul Attanasio, American screenwriter and producer
• 1959 – Paul McGann, English actor
• 1959 – Chris Woods, English former soccer player
• 1960 – Tom Judson, American actor and composer
• 1960 – Remi Moses, English footballer
• 1961 – Antonio Flores, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1995)
• 1961 – Elizabeth Keifer, American actress
• 1961 – D. B. Sweeney, American actor
• 1961 – Brett Walker, American songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
• 1961 – Laura San Giacomo, American actress
• 1962 – Satomi Kōrogi, Japanese voice actress
• 1962 – Harland Williams, Canadian actor
• 1964 – Bill Hemmer, American journalist
• 1964 – Silken Laumann, Canadian champion rower
• 1964 – Rockie Lynne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Joseph Simmons, American rapper and producer (Run–D.M.C.)
• 1964 – Patrick Warburton, American actor
• 1965 – Greg Hands, English politician
• 1966 – Charles Hazlewood, English conductor
• 1966 – Petra Rossner, German cyclist
• 1966 – Curt Schilling, American baseball player
• 1967 – Letitia Dean, English actress and singer
• 1967 – Nina Gordon, American singer-songwriter (Veruca Salt)
• 1967 – Leo Kunnas, Estonian sci-fi writer and military officer
• 1968 – Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
• 1968 – Serge Postigo, Canadian actor
• 1969 – Butch Walker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (SouthGang and Marvelous 3)
• 1970 – Brendan Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Raconteurs)
• 1970 – David Wesley, American basketball player
• 1971 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
• 1971 – Vikas Khanna, Indian chef
• 1971 – Marco Leonardi, Italian-Australian actor
• 1972 – Matt Bloom, American wrestler
• 1972 – Josh Duhamel, American actor
• 1972 – Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
• 1972 – Martin Pike, Australian footballer
• 1972 – Aaron Taylor, American football player
• 1972 – Dariusz Żuraw, Polish footballer
• 1973 – Kareem Campbell, American skateboarder
• 1973 – Lawyer Milloy, American football player
• 1973 – Moka Only, Canadian singer-songwriter (Swollen Members)
• 1973 – Dana Snyder, American comedian, actor, and producer
• 1974 – Matt Cedeño, American model and actor
• 1974 – Adina Howard, American R&B singer
• 1974 – David Moscow, American actor
• 1974 – Joe Principe, American singer and bass player (Rise Against and 88 Fingers Louie)
• 1975 – Travis Barker, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Blink-182, +44, Transplants, TRV$DJAM, Expensive Taste, and Box Car Racer)
• 1975 – Nicolai Cleve Broch, Norwegian actor
• 1975 – Luiz Bombonato Goulart, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Faye Tozer, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Steps)
• 1975 – Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American businessman and critic
• 1976 – Betsy Brandt, American actress
• 1977 – Obie Trice, American rapper
• 1978 – Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
• 1978 – Michala Banas, New Zealand actress
• 1978 – Delphine Chanéac, French model and actress
• 1978 – Xavier Nady, American baseball player
• 1978 – Chris Shar, American bass player (Stiffed and Man Man)
• 1979 – Rallia Christidou, Greek singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 – Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
• 1979 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian model and actress
• 1979 – Carl Hayman, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 – Moitheri Ntobo, Lesothan footballer
• 1979 – Miguel Sabah, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Brock Pierce, American actor
• 1981 – Vanessa Bayer, American comedian and actress
• 1981 – Tom Ferrier, English race car driver
• 1981 – Russell Tovey, English actor
• 1982 – Kyle Orton, American football player
• 1983 – Lil Boosie, American rapper
• 1983 – Guillermo Moscoso, American baseball player
• 1984 – Lisa De Vanna, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Courtney Johns, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
• 1985 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Alo Jakin, Estonian cyclist
• 1986 – Yuna, Malaysian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1987 – Giorgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Michael Cox, American football player
• 1989 – T.Y. Hilton, American football player
• 1989 – Jake Livermore, English footballer
• 1989 – The Ready Set, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Vlad Chiricheș, Romanian footballer
• 1990 – Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
• 1991 – Taylor Hall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Graham Patrick Martin, American actor
• 2002 – Ben Bowen, American brain cancer victim (d. 2005)

Deaths

• 565 – Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (b. 483)
• 669 – Fujiwara no Kamatari, founder of the Fujiwara clan (b. 614)
• 1226 – Frederick of Isenberg (b. 1193)
• 1263 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (b. 1220)
• 1359 – Gregory Palamas, Greek monk and archbishop (b. 1296)
• 1391 – Nikola Tavelić, Croatian missionary and 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 Gwyn, 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 (b. 1649)
• 1746 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (b. 1709)
• 1749 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (b. 1713)
• 1817 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian seamstress and spy (b. 1795)
• 1825 – Jean Paul, German author (b. 1763)
• 1829 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (b. 1763)
• 1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
• 1831 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano builder (b. 1757)
• 1832 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American politician (b. 1737)
• 1844 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (b. 1780)
• 1866 – Miguel I of Portugal (b. 1802)
• 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, author, and activist (b. 1856)
• 1916 – Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
• 1937 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English air force officer (b. 1892)
• 1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
• 1947 – Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1873)
• 1950 – Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish poet (b. 1914)
• 1971 – William Bendeck, Bolivian race car 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, Irish footballer and politician (b. 1941)
• 1984 – Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician, Mayor of Zamboanga City (b. 1916)
• 1984 – Nikitas Platis, Greek actor (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general officer (b. 1903)
• 1989 – Jimmy Murphy, footballer and Manchester United assistant manager (b. 1910)
• 1991 – Tony Richardson, English director (b. 1928)
• 1992 – Ernst Happel, Austrian footballer and coach (b. 1925)
• 1994 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
• 1995 – Jack Finney, American author (b. 1911)
• 1996 – John A. Cade, American politician, 35th Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (b. 1905)
• 1999 – Minos Volanakis, Greek director (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Charlotte Coleman, English actress (b. 1968)
• 2001 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Eddie Bracken, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Elena Nikolaidi, Turkish-American soprano (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Sumner Shapiro, American admiral (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Kristin Hunter, American writer (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Wes Santee, American runner (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (b. 1970)
• 2011 – Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doll by Doll) (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
• 2012 – Enrique Beech, Filipino target shooter (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Brian Davies, Australian rugby player (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (The Chieftains) (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Joe Gilliam, Sr., American football player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Gail Harris, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian military leader (b. 1960)
• 2012 – Lucien Laferte, Canadian ski jumper (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Paddy Meegan, Irish footballer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Luíz Eugênio Pérez, Brazilian bishop (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Abubakar Olusola Saraki, Nigerian politician (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Grace Jones, English supercentenarian (b. 1899)
• 2013 – SPO1 Lawrence B. Navarro, Filipino Police Officer (b. 1975)

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
  • Emperor Justinian (Lutheran Church)
  • Samuel Seabury (Anglican Communion)
  • 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)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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