November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining.

Events

• 1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is 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.
• 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 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 Express
• 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 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 order12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
• 1982 - Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
• 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: 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 to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
• 2003 - Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.

Births

• 1668 - Johann von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect (d. 1745)
• 1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (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, composer and pianist (d. 1847)
• 1828 - James B. McPherson, American (Union) general (d. 1864)
• 1838 - August Senoa, Croat writer (d. 1881)
• 1840 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (d. 1926)
• 1878 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
• 1883 - Fred Quimby, American producer (d. 1965)
• 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
• 1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in medicine (d. 1941)
• 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
• 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
• 1904 - Dick Powell, actor (d. 1963)
• 1906 - Louise Brooks, 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)
• 1915 - Martha Tilton, American big band singer
• 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer, producer
• 1919 - Veronica Lake, actress (d. 1973)
• 1919 - Lisa Otto, German soprano
• 1921 - Brian Keith, actor (d. 1997)
• 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General
• 1929 - Jimmy Piersall, baseball player
• 1929 - McLean Stevenson, actor (d. 1996)
• 1930 - Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
• 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer
• 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, writer
• 1948 - Prince Charles, later Prince of Wales
• 1951 - Stephen Bishop, musician
• 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State
• 1954 - Yanni, musician
• 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
• 1966 - Curt Schilling, baseball pitcher
• 1967 - Letitia Dean, British actress
• 1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer, songwriter
• 1973 - Lawyer Milloy, American football player
• 1978 - Xavier Nady, baseball outfielder

Deaths

• 1359 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
• 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher, mathematician (b. 1646)
• 1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
• 1831 - Georg Hegel, philosopher (b. 1770)
• 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence signer, US Senator (b. 1732)
• 1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
• 1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
• 1915 - Booker T. Washington, inventor, educator, author (b. 1856)
• 1916 - H.H. "Saki" Munro, British writer (b. 1870)
• 1946 - Manuel de Falla, composer (b. 1876)
• 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
• 1997 - Eddie Arcaro, thoroughbred racing jockey (b. 1916)
• 2000 - Robert Trout, journalist (b. 1909)
• 2003 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2004 - Harry Lampert, illustrator and co-created of The Flash (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances

• India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's day

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