November 14 

November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining.

Events:

• 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
• 1949 - Vangelis, musician, composer
• 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

Marriages:

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

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