November, 14th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Friday 14, 2003:
Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.

Thursday 14, 2002:
The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.

Wednesday 14, 2001:
Attack on Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.

Tuesday 14, 2000:
Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.

Saturday 14, 1998:
Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra are married in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tuesday 14, 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 run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

Sunday 14, 1993:
Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers.

Thursday 14, 1991:
A fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five, before committing suicide.

Wednesday 14, 1990:
Germany modifies its Basic Law to recognise the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

Thursday 14, 1985:
Tragedy in Colombia: eruption of volcano Nevado del Ruiz provoked 23 000 deaths in city of Armero (was buried).

Sunday 14, 1982:
Lech Wa??sa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

Wednesday 14, 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.

Friday 14, 1975:
Spain abandons Western Sahara.

Wednesday 14, 1973:
In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

Tuesday 14, 1972:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.

Sunday 14, 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.

Saturday 14, 1970:
Southern Airways DC-9 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75.

Friday 14, 1969:
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

Sunday 14, 1965:
the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

Friday 14, 1952:
1952 - First UK chart published by the New Musical Express

Friday 14, 1941:
World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.

Thursday 14, 1940:
World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers.

Tuesday 14, 1922:
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

Monday 14, 1921:
The Communist Party of Spain is founded.

Thursday 14, 1918:
Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

Thursday 14, 1889:
Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.

Friday 14, 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.

Friday 14, 1851:
after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-november/on-this-day.html


People born on November 14

1978:
Xavier Nady, baseball player (b: November 14, 1978) (Biography of Xavier Nady)

1975:
Travis Barker, American drummer (b: November 14, 1975) (Biography of Travis Barker)

1973:
Lawyer Milloy, American football player (b: November 14, 1973) (Biography of Lawyer Milloy)
Dana Snyder, voice actor (b: November 14, 1973) (Biography of Dana Snyder)

1972:
Martin Pike, Australian footballer (b: November 14, 1972) (Biography of Martin Pike)

1971:
Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer (b: November 14, 1971) (Biography of Adam Gilchrist)

1967:
Letitia Dean, British actress (b: November 14, 1967) (Biography of Letitia Dean)
Nina Gordon, American singer and songwriter (b: November 14, 1967) (Biography of Nina Gordon)

1966:
Curt Schilling, baseball player (b: November 14, 1966) (Biography of Curt Schilling)

1964:
Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter (b: November 14, 1964) (Biography of Bill Hemmer)

1959:
Paul McGann, British actor (b: November 14, 1959) (Biography of Paul McGann)

1954:
Bernard Hinault, French cyclist (b: November 14, 1954) (Biography of Bernard Hinault)
Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State (b: November 14, 1954) (Biography of Condoleezza Rice)
Yanni, Greek musician (b: November 14, 1954) (Biography of Yanni)

1953:
Dominique de Villepin, French prime minister (b: November 14, 1953) (Biography of Dominique de Villepin)

1951:
Stephen Bishop, American musician (b: November 14, 1951) (Biography of Stephen Bishop (musician))

1948:
Charles, Prince of Wales (b: November 14, 1948) (Biography of Charles, Prince of Wales)

1947:
P. J. O'Rourke, American writer (b: November 14, 1947) (Biography of P. J. O'Rourke)

1943:
Peter Norton, American software engineer and businessman (b: November 14, 1943) (Biography of Peter Norton)

1939:
Wendy Carlos, American composer (b: November 14, 1939) (Biography of Wendy Carlos)

1935:
King Hussein of Jordan (b: November 14, 1935 ; d: February 7, 1999) (Biography of Hussein of Jordan)

1930:
Edward White, astronaut (b: November 14, 1930 ; d: January 27, 1967) (Biography of Edward Higgins White)

1929:
McLean Stevenson, American actor (b: November 14, 1929 ; d: February 15, 1996) (Biography of McLean Stevenson)
Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (b: November 14, 1929) (Biography of Jimmy Piersall)

1922:
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General (b: November 14, 1922) (Biography of Boutros Boutros-Ghali)

1921:
Brian Keith, American actor (b: November 14, 1921) (Biography of Brian Keith)

1919:
Veronica Lake, American actress (b: November 14, 1919 ; d: July 7, 1973) (Biography of Veronica Lake)
Lisa Otto, German soprano (b: November 14, 1919) (Biography of Lisa Otto)

1916:
Roger Apéry, French mathematician (b: November 14, 1916 ; d: December 18, 1994) (Biography of Roger Apéry)
Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (b: November 14, 1916) (Biography of Sherwood Schwartz)

1915:
Martha Tilton, American singer (b: November 14, 1915) (Biography of Martha Tilton)

1912:
Barbara Hutton, American socialite (b: November 14, 1912) (Biography of Barbara Hutton)
T. Y. Lin, Chinese-American civil engineer (b: November 14, 1912 ; d: November 15, 2003) (Biography of T. Y. Lin)

1910:
Eric Malpass, English novelist (b: November 14, 1910 ; d: October 16, 1996) (Biography of Eric Malpass)

1907:
Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (b: November 14, 1907 ; d: January 28, 2002) (Biography of Astrid Lindgren)
Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b: November 14, 1907 ; d: March 3, 1994) (Biography of Howard W. Hunter)
William Steig, American cartoonist and children's book author (b: November 14, 1907 ; d: October 3, 2003) (Biography of William Steig)

1906:
Louise Brooks, American actress (b: November 14, 1906 ; d: August 8, 1985) (Biography of Louise Brooks)

1905:
John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b: November 14, 1905 ; d: November 3, 1964) (Biography of John Henry Barbee)

1904:
Dick Powell, American actor (b: November 14, 1904 ; d: January 2, 1963) (Biography of Dick Powell)

1900:
Aaron Copland, American composer (b: November 14, 1900 ; d: December 2, 1990) (Biography of Aaron Copland)

1896:
Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b: November 14, 1896 ; d: November 1, 1979) (Biography of Mamie Eisenhower)

1891:
Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b: November 14, 1891) (Biography of Frederick Banting)

1889:
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (b: November 14, 1889 ; d: May 27, 1964) (Biography of Jawaharlal Nehru)

1883:
Fred Quimby, American film producer (b: November 14, 1883) (Biography of Fred Quimby)

1878:
Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b: November 14, 1878 ; d: May 31, 1957) (Biography of Leopold Staff)

1840:
Claude Monet, French painter (b: November 14, 1840 ; d: December 5, 1926) (Biography of Claude Monet)

1838:
August Senoa, Croatian writer (b: November 14, 1838 ; d: December 13, 1881) (Biography of August Senoa)

1828:
James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (b: November 14, 1828) (Biography of James B. McPherson)

1812:
Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b: November 14, 1812 ; d: July 17, 1878) (Biography of Aleardo Aleardi)

1805:
Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b: November 14, 1805 ; d: May 14, 1847) (Biography of Fanny Mendelssohn)

1803:
Jacob Abbott, American writer (b: November 14, 1803 ; d: October 31, 1879) (Biography of Jacob Abbott)

1797:
Charles Lyell, British geologist (b: November 14, 1797 ; d: February 22, 1875) (Biography of Charles Lyell)

1779:
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b: November 14, 1779) (Biography of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger)

1776:
Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (b: November 14, 1776) (Biography of Henri Dutrochet)

1771:
Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b: November 14, 1771 ; d: July 22, 1802) (Biography of Marie François Xavier Bichat)

1765:
Robert Fulton, American inventor (b: November 14, 1765 ; d: February 24, 1815) (Biography of Robert Fulton)

1719:
Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b: November 14, 1719) (Biography of Leopold Mozart)

1650:
King William III of England (b: November 14, 1650 ; d: March 8, 1702) (Biography of William III of England)

1567:
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (b: November 14, 1567 ; d: April 23, 1625) (Biography of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange)

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