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
- 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
- 1969 - Apollo 12 is launched
- 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
Births:
- 1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor
- 1779 - Adam Oehlenschlager, Danish poet
- 1797 - Charles Lyell, British geologist
- 1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer
- 1840 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (+1926)
- 1883 - Fred Quimby, American producer
- 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian prime minister (+ 1964)
- 1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1923 (+ 1941)
- 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer
- 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (+ 2002)
- 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, American politician
- 1930 - Edward White, American astronaut
- 1935 - Hussein II of Jordan (+ 1999)
- 1939 - Walter Carlos, American composer
- 1942 - Carol Ann Peterson-Heimstead mother, grandmother, wife of Ted
- 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, writer
- 1948 - Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
- 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. National Security Advisor
- 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
Deaths:
- 1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician
- 1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician
- 1916 - H.H. "Saki" Munro, British writer
Holidays and Observances:
- India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's day
See Also:
November 13 - November 15 - October 14 - December 14 -- listing of all days
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