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14th of November 1533 EVENT Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire
14th of November 1770 EVENT James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
14th of November 1862 EVENT 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.
14th of November 1889 EVENT Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
14th of November 1910 EVENT Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
14th of November 1918 EVENT Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
14th of November 1921 EVENT The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
14th of November 1922 EVENT The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
14th of November 1923 EVENT Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.
14th of November 1940 EVENT World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
14th of November 1941 EVENT World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U-81 sustained on November 13.
14th of November 1952 EVENT The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
14th of November 1957 EVENT The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
14th of November 1965 EVENT Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins : the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
14th of November 1967 EVENT The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
14th of November 1969 EVENT Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
14th of November 1970 EVENT Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
14th of November 1970 EVENT Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
14th of November 1971 EVENT Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
14th of November 1973 EVENT In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
14th of November 1975 EVENT Spain abandons Western Sahara.
14th of November 1979 EVENT 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.
14th of November 1982 EVENT Lech Wa?esa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
14th of November 1984 EVENT Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
14th of November 1990 EVENT After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
14th of November 1991 EVENT American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
14th of November 1991 EVENT Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
14th of November 1991 EVENT In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
14th of November 1995 EVENT A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
14th of November 2001 EVENT War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
14th of November 2002 EVENT Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
14th of November 2003 EVENT Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
14th of November 2007 EVENT The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.
14th of November 1567 BIRTHDAY Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
14th of November 1601 BIRTHDAY Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
14th of November 1650 BIRTHDAY King William III of England (d. 1702)
14th of November 1719 BIRTHDAY Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father (d. 1787)
14th of November 1740 BIRTHDAY Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)
14th of November 1746 BIRTHDAY Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal (d. 1822)
14th of November 1765 BIRTHDAY Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
14th of November 1771 BIRTHDAY Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
14th of November 1776 BIRTHDAY Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
14th of November 1777 BIRTHDAY Nathaniel Claiborne, U.S. politician (d. 1859)
14th of November 1778 BIRTHDAY Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)
14th of November 1779 BIRTHDAY Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager, Danish poet (d. 1850)
14th of November 1797 BIRTHDAY Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)
14th of November 1803 BIRTHDAY Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
14th of November 1805 BIRTHDAY Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
14th of November 1812 BIRTHDAY Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)
14th of November 1812 BIRTHDAY Maria Christina of Savoy, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1836)
14th of November 1816 BIRTHDAY John Curwen, British music educator (d. 1880)
14th of November 1828 BIRTHDAY James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d. 1864)
14th of November 1838 BIRTHDAY August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)
14th of November 1840 BIRTHDAY Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
14th of November 1863 BIRTHDAY Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)
14th of November 1875 BIRTHDAY Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (d. 1899)
14th of November 1875 BIRTHDAY Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (d. 1944)
14th of November 1878 BIRTHDAY Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot (d. 1966)
14th of November 1878 BIRTHDAY Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
14th of November 1889 BIRTHDAY Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
14th of November 1891 BIRTHDAY Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
14th of November 1895 BIRTHDAY Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
14th of November 1895 BIRTHDAY Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
14th of November 1896 BIRTHDAY Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
14th of November 1898 BIRTHDAY Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)
14th of November 1900 BIRTHDAY Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
14th of November 1904 BIRTHDAY Harold Larwood, English cricketer (d. 1995)
14th of November 1904 BIRTHDAY Harold Haley, American judge (d. 1970)
14th of November 1904 BIRTHDAY Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963)
14th of November 1905 BIRTHDAY John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d. 1964)
14th of November 1906 BIRTHDAY Louise Brooks, American dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985)
14th of November 1907 BIRTHDAY Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
14th of November 1907 BIRTHDAY Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader (d. 1995)
14th of November 1907 BIRTHDAY William Steig, American children's book author (d. 2003)
14th of November 1908 BIRTHDAY Joseph McCarthy, American politician (d. 1957)
14th of November 1910 BIRTHDAY Eric Malpass, English novelist (d. 1996)
14th of November 1912 BIRTHDAY Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)
14th of November 1912 BIRTHDAY T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003)
14th of November 1915 BIRTHDAY Martha Tilton, American singer (d. 2006)
14th of November 1916 BIRTHDAY Roger Apery, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)
14th of November 1916 BIRTHDAY Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer
14th of November 1919 BIRTHDAY Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
14th of November 1919 BIRTHDAY Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
14th of November 1919 BIRTHDAY Lisa Otto, German soprano
14th of November 1921 BIRTHDAY Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
14th of November 1922 BIRTHDAY Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General
14th of November 1924 BIRTHDAY Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982)
14th of November 1927 BIRTHDAY Bart Cummings, Australian race horse trainer
14th of November 1927 BIRTHDAY McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
14th of November 1927 BIRTHDAY Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1997)
14th of November 1929 BIRTHDAY Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player
14th of November 1929 BIRTHDAY Shirley Crabtree, aka Big Daddy, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
14th of November 1930 BIRTHDAY Charles De Sorgher, Belgian bobsledder
14th of November 1930 BIRTHDAY Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
14th of November 1930 BIRTHDAY Michael Robbins, British actor (d. 1992)
14th of November 1930 BIRTHDAY Monique Mercure, French Canadian actress
14th of November 1932 BIRTHDAY Gunter Sachs, German mathematician
14th of November 1933 BIRTHDAY Fred Haise, American astronaut
14th of November 1934 BIRTHDAY Kurt Hamrin, Swedish football player
14th of November 1934 BIRTHDAY Catherine McGuinness, Irish Supreme Court Justice
14th of November 1935 BIRTHDAY King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
14th of November 1935 BIRTHDAY Michael Busselle, English photographer and writer (d. 2006)
14th of November 1935 BIRTHDAY Lefteris Papadopoulos, Greek lyricist and journalist
14th of November 1936 BIRTHDAY Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1990)
14th of November 1936 BIRTHDAY Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
14th of November 1936 BIRTHDAY Carey Bell, American blues musician (d. 2007)
14th of November 1937 BIRTHDAY Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player
14th of November 1939 BIRTHDAY Wendy Carlos, American composer
14th of November 1943 BIRTHDAY Peter Norton, American software engineer
14th of November 1945 BIRTHDAY Paul Hirsch, American film editor
14th of November 1945 BIRTHDAY Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady (d. 2005)
14th of November 1947 BIRTHDAY Bharathan, Malayalam film director (d. 1998)
14th of November 1947 BIRTHDAY P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
14th of November 1948 BIRTHDAY Charles, Prince of Wales
14th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Raul Di Blasio Argentine pianist, composer, producer
14th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY James Young, American guitarist (Styx)
14th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Gary Grubbs, American actor
14th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Frankie Banali, American rock drummer
14th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Stephen Bishop, American musician
14th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Alec John Such, American musician (Bon Jovi)
14th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director
14th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Sandahl Bergman, American actress
14th of November 1953 BIRTHDAY Phil Baron, American voice actor
14th of November 1953 BIRTHDAY Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
14th of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Bernard Hinault, French cyclist
14th of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Condoleezza Rice, American educator, diplomat and 66th United States Secretary of State
14th of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Yanni, Greek musician & composer
14th of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Jack Sikma, American basketball player
14th of November 1956 BIRTHDAY Peter R. de Vries, Dutch crime reporter
14th of November 1957 BIRTHDAY Michael J Fitzgerald, American writer
14th of November 1959 BIRTHDAY Paul Attanasio, American screenwriter and producer
14th of November 1959 BIRTHDAY Paul McGann, British actor
14th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Remi Moses, English footballer
14th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Tom Judson, American actor and composer
14th of November 1961 BIRTHDAY Antonio Flores, Spanish singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
14th of November 1961 BIRTHDAY D. B. Sweeney, American actor
14th of November 1961 BIRTHDAY Elizabeth Keifer, American actress
14th of November 1962 BIRTHDAY Harland Williams, Canadian-born actor
14th of November 1962 BIRTHDAY Laura San Giacomo, American actress
14th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter
14th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Patrick Warburton, American actor
14th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Rockie Lynne, American musician
14th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Rev Run, American rapper
14th of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Curt Schilling, American baseball player
14th of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Petra Rossner, German cyclist
14th of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Nina Gordon, American singer
14th of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Letitia Dean, British actress
14th of November 1968 BIRTHDAY Serge Postigo, Canadian actor
14th of November 1968 BIRTHDAY Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
14th of November 1969 BIRTHDAY Butch Walker, recording artist
14th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY David Wesley, American basketball player
14th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Brendan Benson, American musician (The Raconteurs)
14th of November 1971 BIRTHDAY Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
14th of November 1971 BIRTHDAY Marco Leonardi, Italian-Australian actor
14th of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Edyta Gorniak, Polish singer
14th of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Aaron Taylor, American football player
14th of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Josh Duhamel, American actor
14th of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Martin Pike, Australian rules footballer
14th of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Matthew Bloom, American professional wrestler
14th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Kareem Campbell, American skateboarder
14th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Dana Snyder, American voice actor
14th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Moka Only, Canadian musician
14th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Lawyer Milloy, American football player
14th of November 1974 BIRTHDAY David Moscow, American actor
14th of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Matt Cedeno, Cuban-American actor
14th of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Nicolai Cleve Broch, Norwegian actor
14th of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Faye Tozer, British musician (Steps)
14th of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Travis Barker, American musician (Blink-182, +44)
14th of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian/American wine expert
14th of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Sara Jay, American pornographic actress
14th of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Obie Trice, American rapper
14th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
14th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Chris Shar, American musician (Stiffed (band)), (Man Man), (Santigold)
14th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Xavier Nady, American baseball player
14th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Michala Banas, New Zealand actress
14th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Delphine Chaneac, French model, actress, and DJ.
14th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Mavie Horbiger, German actress
14th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian model and actress
14th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Miguel Sabah, Mexican footballer
14th of November 1980 BIRTHDAY Brock Pierce, American actor
14th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Vanessa Bayer, American comedian
14th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Tom Ferrier, British racing driver
14th of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Laura Ramsey, American actress
14th of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Kyle Orton, American football player
14th of November 1983 BIRTHDAY Lil Boosie, American rapper
14th of November 1984 BIRTHDAY Courtney Johns, Australian rules footballer
14th of November 1984 BIRTHDAY Lisa De Vanna, Australian footballer
14th of November 1984 BIRTHDAY Marija Serifovic, Serbian singer
14th of November 1985 BIRTHDAY Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
14th of November 1989 BIRTHDAY Jake Livermore, English footballer
14th of November 1990 BIRTHDAY Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
14th of November 1991 BIRTHDAY Taylor Hall, Canadian hockey player
14th of November 2002 BIRTHDAY Ben Bowen, American brain cancer victim (d. 2005)
14th of November 0565 DEATH Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (Born 483)
14th of November 1226 DEATH Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (Born 1193)
14th of November 1263 DEATH Alexander Nevsky, Russian noble (Born 1220)
14th of November 1359 DEATH Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (Born 1296)
14th of November 1391 DEATH Nikola Tavelic, Croatian saint (Born 1340)
14th of November 1522 DEATH Anne of France (Born 1461)
14th of November 1556 DEATH Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (Born 1504)
14th of November 1633 DEATH William Ames, English philosopher (Born 1576)
14th of November 1687 DEATH Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (Born 1650)
14th of November 1691 DEATH Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (Born 1617)
14th of November 1716 DEATH Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (Born 1646)
14th of November 1734 DEATH Louise de Kerouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (Born 1649)
14th of November 1746 DEATH Georg Steller, German naturalist (Born 1709)
14th of November 1749 DEATH Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (Born 1713)
14th of November 1817 DEATH Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary figure (Born 1795)
14th of November 1825 DEATH Jean Paul, German writer (Born 1763)
14th of November 1829 DEATH Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (Born 1763)
14th of November 1831 DEATH G. W. F. Hegel, German philosopher (Born 1770)
14th of November 1831 DEATH Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano manufacturer (Born 1757)
14th of November 1832 DEATH Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (Born 1737)
14th of November 1844 DEATH John Abercrombie, British physician (Born 1780)
14th of November 1866 DEATH King Miguel of Portugal (Born 1802)
14th of November 1872 DEATH Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (Born 1788)
14th of November 1907 DEATH Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (Born 1848)
14th of November 1908 DEATH Guangxu Emperor of China (Born 1871)
14th of November 1914 DEATH Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (Born 1861)
14th of November 1915 DEATH Booker T. Washington, American educator and activist (Born 1856)
14th of November 1916 DEATH Henry George, Jr., American politician (Born 1862)
14th of November 1916 DEATH Saki, British writer (Born 1870)
14th of November 1937 DEATH Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (Born 1869)
14th of November 1944 DEATH Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (Born 1873)
14th of November 1944 DEATH Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English RAF Officer (Born 1892)
14th of November 1946 DEATH Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (Born 1876)
14th of November 1947 DEATH Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (Born 1873)
14th of November 1950 DEATH Orhan Veli Kan?k, Turkish writer and poet (Born 1914)
14th of November 1960 DEATH Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (Born 1937)
14th of November 1971 DEATH William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (Born 1934)
14th of November 1972 DEATH Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (Born 1900)
14th of November 1974 DEATH Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (Born 1904)
14th of November 1977 DEATH A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader (Born 1896)
14th of November 1981 DEATH Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (Born 1941)
14th of November 1984 DEATH Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (Born 1916)
14th of November 1991 DEATH Tony Richardson, English film director (Born 1928)
14th of November 1992 DEATH Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (Born 1925)
14th of November 1994 DEATH Tom Villard, American actor (Born 1953)
14th of November 1996 DEATH John A. Cade, American politician (Born 1929)
14th of November 1997 DEATH Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (Born 1905)
14th of November 1997 DEATH Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (Born 1916)
14th of November 1999 DEATH Minos Volanakis, Greek theatre director and translator
14th of November 2000 DEATH Robert Trout, American journalist (Born 1908)
14th of November 2001 DEATH Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (Born 1922)
14th of November 2001 DEATH Charlotte Coleman, British actress (Born 1968)
14th of November 2002 DEATH Elena Nikolaidi, Turkish-born American opera singer (Born 1909)
14th of November 2002 DEATH Eddie Bracken, American film actor (Born 1915)
14th of November 2003 DEATH Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (Born 1962)
14th of November 2004 DEATH Michel Colombier, French composer (Born 1939)
14th of November 2006 DEATH Sumner Shapiro, United States Navy Rear Admiral (Born 1926)
14th of November 2010 DEATH Wes Santee, American middle distance runner (Born 1932)