1501 | | Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon. |
1812 | | As Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army retreats form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero. |
1851 | | Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York.
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1882 | | Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, loses his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie. |
1908 | | Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light. |
1910 | | Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk. |
1921 | | The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas. |
1922 | | The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House. |
1930 | | Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamaguchi. |
1935 | | Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated. |
1940 | | German bombers devastate Coventry in Great Britain, killing 1,000 in the worst air raid of the war. |
1951 | | The United States and Yugoslavia sign a military aid pact. |
1951 | | French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam. |
1960 | | New Orleans integrates two all-white schools. |
1960 | | President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings. |
1961 | | President John Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000. |
1963 | | Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast. |
1963 | | Greece frees hundreds who were jailed in the Communist uprising of 1944-1950. |
1965 | | The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops. |
1968 | | Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed. |
1969 | | The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy. |
1979 | | US President Jimmy Carter freezes all Iranian assets in the United States in response to Iranian militants holding more than 50 Americans hostage. |
1982 | | Lech Walesa, leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released by communist authorities after 11 months confinement; he would win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and be elected Poland’s president in 1990. |
1984 | | The Space Shuttle Discovery‘s crew rescues a second satellite. |
1990 | | Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany sign a treaty officially making the Oder-Neisse line the border between their countries. |
1995 | | Budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress forces temporary closure of national parks and museums; federal agencies forced to operate with skeleton staff. |
2001 | | Northern Alliance fighters take control of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. |
2008 | | First G-20 economic summit convenes, in Washington, DC. |
2012 | | Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip. |
Born on November 14
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1650 | | William III, King of England (1689-1702). |
1765 | | Robert Fulton, American engineer who invented the first steamboat. |
1840 | | Claude Monet, French impressionist painter. |
1889 | | Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian nationalist leader. |
1900 | | Aaron Copeland, American composer whose works include Billy the Kidd, Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man. |
1906 | | Louise Brooks, silent film star, symbol of the 1920s flapper. |
1907 | | Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children’s writer (Pippi Longstocking). |
1908 | | Joseph McCarthy, anti-Communist senator from Wisconsin. |
1908 | | Harrison Sallisbury, journalist for The New York Times. |
1917 | | Park Chung-hee, Korean general and statesman; led 1961 coup that overthrew the Korean Second Republic; elected president 1963; assassinated Oct. 26, 1979. |
1921 | | Brian Keith, actor (The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming). |
1922 | | Veronica Lake, actress (Sullivan’s Travels). |
1927 | | McLean Stevenson, actor; best known for his role as Lt. Col. Henry Blake on the TV series M*A*S*H*. |
1930 | | Edward Higgins White II, engineer, astronaut; first American to “walk” in space (June 3, 1965); died in explosion at Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy) during prelaunch testing for first manned Apollo mission. |
1935 | | Hussein of Jordan, King of Jordan (1952–1999); second Arab head of state to recognize Israel as a sovereign nation. |
1947 | | Buckwheat Zydeco (Stanley Dural Jr.), accordion player, zydeco artist. |
1948 | | Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of England. |
1954 | | Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State under Pres. George W. Bush (2005–2009). |
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