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.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is first published.
1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia which led to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1889 - Pioneer woman Journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days.
1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1940 - World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is destroyed by German Luftwaffe bombers.
1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sunk due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.
1965 - 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 Virgina killing 75
1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
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 and US banks in response to the hostage crisis.
1982 - The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.
1990 - Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder-Neisse line.
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 13 years of exile.
1995 - A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the United States Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and run most government offices with skeleton staff.
1998 - Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra were married in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
2001 - Attack on Afghanistan: Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.
2002 - Argentina defaults on a US$805 million World Bank payment.
2002 - The US House of Representatives votes not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
2003 - Discovery of 90377 Sedna