November 14
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November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining.
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Events
- 1698 - first Eddystone Lighthouse is lit
- 1832 - First streetcar (a horse-drawn wagon) goes into operation, in New York City
- 1918 - Republic of Czechoslovakia established
- 1940 - Coventry, England bombed by German airplanes
- 1941 - HMS Ark Royal capsizes and sinks
- 1942 - USS Enterprise aviators help to despatch a heavy cruiser
- 1945 - Nuremberg Trials begin
- 1963 - Surtsey, a volcanic island, emerges from the ocean five miles south of Iceland
- 1965 - Battle of the Ia Drang
- 1969 - Apollo 12 is launched
- 1975 - Spain abandons Western Sahara
- 1990 - Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse border
- 2000 - Netscape Navigator 6.0 is launched
- 2001 - Northern Alliance fighters take over Kabul. See timeline
- 2002
- Argentina defaults on $805 million World Bank payment
- The US House of Representatives votes 215 to 203, not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks
Births
- 1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor († 1815)
- 1779 - Adam Oehlenschlager, Danish poet
- 1797 - Charles Lyell, British geologist
- 1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer
- 1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn, composer and pianist († 1847)
- 1840 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter († 1926)
- 1883 - Fred Quimby, American producer
- 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India († 1964)
- 1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1923 († 1941)
- 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady († 1979)
- 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer († 1990)
- 1904 - Dick Powell, actor († 1963)
- 1906 - Louise Brooks, actress († 1985)
- 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer († 2002)
- 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, American politician († 1957)
- 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, television writer, producer
- 1919 - Veronica Lake, actress († 1973)
- 1921 - Brian Keith, actor († 1997)
- 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General
- 1929 - Jimmy Piersall, baseball star
- 1929 - McLean Stevenson, actor († 1996)
- 1930 - Edward White, American astronaut
- 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan († 1999)
- 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer
- 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, writer
- 1948 - Prince Charles, 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, baseball star
Deaths
- 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher, mathematician
- 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
See Also
November 13 - November 15 - October 14 - December 14 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "November 14" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_14 November 14, 2003
