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November 14 day of the year (319th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 47 days remaining.
Events
1851 - Herman Melville 's novel Moby-Dick published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18 , 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.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 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.1911 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA . He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher .1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic .1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (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 .1941 - World War II : The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13 .1952 - First UK chart published by the New Musical Express1965 - Vietnam War : Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.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 Virginia , killing 75.1971 - Mariner program : Mariner 9 reaches Mars , becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet .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 .
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 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 .1985 - Tragedy in Colombia : eruption of volcano Nevado del Ruiz provoked 23 000 deaths in city of Armero (was buried).1990 - Germany modifies its Basic Law to recognise 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 - A fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage , killing four and wounding five, before committing suicide .
1993 - Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers .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.1998 - Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra are married in Las Vegas , Nevada .2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.2001 - Attack on Afghanistan : Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul .2002 - Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.2002 - The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks .
2003 - Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
Births
1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625 )1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702 )1719 - Leopold Mozart , Austrian composer (d. 1787 )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 )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 )1828 - James B. McPherson , American Civil War general (d. 1864 )1838 - August Senoa , Croatian writer (d. 1881 )1840 - Claude Monet , French painter (d. 1926 )1878 - Leopold Staff , Polish poet (d. 1957 )1883 - Fred Quimby , American film producer (d. 1965 )1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru , Prime Minister of India (d. 1964 )1891 - Frederick Banting , Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941 )1896 - Mamie Eisenhower , First Lady of the United States (d. 1979 )1900 - Aaron Copland , American composer (d. 1990 )1904 - Dick Powell , American actor (d. 1963 )1905 - John Henry Barbee , American guitarist and singer (d. 1964 )1906 - Louise Brooks , American actress (d. 1985 )1907 - Howard W. Hunter , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995 )1907 - Astrid Lindgren , Swedish writer (d. 2002 )
1907 - William Steig , American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 2003 )
1910 - Eric Malpass , English novelist (d. 1996 )1912 - Barbara Hutton , American socialite (d. 1979 )1912 - T. Y. Lin , Chinese-American civil engineer (d. 2003 )
1915 - Martha Tilton , American singer1916 - Roger Apéry , French mathematician (d. 1994 )1916 - Sherwood Schwartz , American television writer and producer
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 1929 - Jimmy Piersall , baseball player1929 - McLean Stevenson , American actor (d. 1996 )
1930 - Edward White , astronaut (d. 1967 )1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999 )1939 - Wendy Carlos , American composer1943 - Peter Norton , American software engineer and businessman1947 - P. J. O'Rourke , American writer1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales 1951 - Stephen Bishop , American musician1953 - Dominique de Villepin , French prime minister1954 - Bernard Hinault , French cyclist1954 - Condoleezza Rice , United States Secretary of State 1954 - Yanni , Greek musician
1959 - Paul McGann , British actor1964 - Bill Hemmer , American television news reporter1966 - Curt Schilling , baseball player1967 - Letitia Dean , British actress1967 - Nina Gordon , American singer and songwriter
1971 - Adam Gilchrist , Australian cricketer1972 - Martin Pike , Australian footballer1973 - Lawyer Milloy , American football player1973 - Dana Snyder , voice actor
1975 - Travis Barker , American drummer1976 - NR Indu, Indian Table Tennis player1978 - Xavier Nady , baseball player
Deaths
565 - Justinian the Great , Byzantine Emperor (b. 483 )1226 - Frederick of Isenberg , German politician (executed) (b. 1193 )1263 - Alexander Nevsky , Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir1359 - Gregory Palamas , Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296 )1522 - Anne de Beaujeu , Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461 )1556 - Giovanni della Casa , Italian poet (b. 1504 )1633 - William Ames , English philosopher (b. 1576 )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 )1687 - Nell Gwynne , English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650 )1825 - Jean Paul , German writer (b. 1763 )1831 - Georg Hegel , German philosopher (b. 1770 )1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton , signer of the American Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (b. 1732 )1844 - John Abercrombie , British physician (b. 1780 )1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark , Australian politician (b. 1848 )1908 - The Guangxu Emperor of China, (b. 1871 )1915 - Booker T. Washington , American inventor, educator, and author (b. 1856 )1916 - Saki , British writer (b. 1870 )1946 - Manuel de Falla , Spanish composer (b. 1876 )1972 - Martin Dies, Jr. , American politician (b. 1900 )1994 - Tom Villard , American actor (b. 1953 )1997 - Eddie Arcaro , American jockey (b. 1916 )2000 - Robert Trout , American journalist (b. 1908 )2003 - Gene Anthony Ray , American actor (b. 1962 )2004 - Margaret Hassan , Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945 )2004 - Harry Lampert , American illustrator (b. 1916 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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