On this day in History - Nov. 14

• 0565 - Justinian the Great dies (b. 0483). Byzantine Emperor
• 1226 - Frederick of Isenberg dies executed (b. 1193). German politician.
• 1263 - Alexander Nevsky dies. Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• 1359 - Gregory Palamas dies (b. 1296). Archbishop of Thessalonica
• 1501 - Henrique VIII de Inglaterra contrai matrimónio com Catalina de Aragão, filha dos Reis Católicos.
• 1522 - Anne of France dies (b. 1461). Princess and Regent of France.
• 1556 - Giovanni della Casa dies (b. 1504). Italian poet.
• 1567 - Maurice of Nassau was born (d. 1625). Prince of Orange.
• 1601 - Jean Eudes was born (d. 1680). French missionary.
• 1633 - William Ames dies (b. 1576). English philosopher.
• 1650 - William III was born (d. 1702). King of England
• 1687 - Nell Gwynne dies (b. 1650). English mistress of Charles II of England
• 1691 - Tosa Mitsuoki dies (b. 1617). Japanese painter.
• 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz dies (b. 1646). German philosopher and mathematician.
• 1719 - Leopold Mozart was born (d. 1787). Austrian composer.
• 1734 - Louise de Kérouaille dies (b. 1649). Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England
• 1746 - Giulio Gabrielli the Younger was born. Italian Cardinal
• 1746 - Georg Steller dies (b. 1709). German naturalist .
• 1765 - Robert Fulton was born (d. 1815). American inventor.
• 1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat was born (d. 1802). French anatomist and physiologist.
• 1776 - Henri Dutrochet was born (d. 1847). French physiologist.
• 1778 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel was born (d. 1837). Austrian-born pianist and composer.
• 1779 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger was born (d. 1850). Danish poet
• 1797 - Charles Lyell was born (d. 1875). British geologist.
• 1803 - Jacob Abbott was born (d. 1879). American writer
• 1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn was born (d. 1847). German composer and pianist
• 1812 - Aleardo Aleardi was born (d. 1878). Italian poet.
• 1825 - Jean Paul dies (b. 1763). German writer.
• 1826 - António Pedro Lopes de Mendonça was born (d. 1865). Portuguese romantic writer.
• 1828 - James B. McPherson was born (d. 1864). American Civil War general
• 1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin dies (b. 1763). French pharmacist and chemist
• 1831 - Georg Hegel dies (b. 1770). German philosopher.
• 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton dies (b. 1732). Signer of the American Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator
• 1838 - August Senoa was born (b. 1881). Croatian writer.
• 1839 - Júlio Dinis was born in Oporto (d. 1871). Portuguese writer [As Pupilas do senhor Reitor (1867), Uma Família Inglesa e A Morgadinha dos Canaviais (1868) e Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca (1871)].
• 1840 - Claude Monet was born (d. 1926). French painter.
• 1844 - John Abercrombie dies (b. 1780). British physician.
• 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.
• 1859 - Alexandru Averescu was born (d. 1938). Romanian soldier and politician.
• 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.
• 1866 - King Miguel I dies (b. 1802). King of Portugal, son of King John VI and D. Carlota Joaquina.
• 1872 - Pavel Kiselyov dies (b. 1788). Russian general and politician.
• 1875 - Jakob Schaffner was born (d. 1944). Swiss novelist.
• 1878 - Leopold Staff was born (d. 1957). Polish poet.
• 1881 - António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo assumes the seat of Prime-Minister of Portugal
• 1883 - Fred Quimby was born (d. 1965). American film producer.
• 1888 - Institute Pasteur is inaugurated in Paris
• 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru was born (d. 1964). Prime Minister of India
• 1889 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
• 1891 - Frederick Banting was born (d. 1941). Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower was born (d. 1979). First Lady of the United States
• 1898 - Benjamin Fondane was born (d. 1944). Romanian-French Surrealist writer, essayist, and filmmaker.
• 1900 - Aaron Copland was born (d. 1990). American composer.
• 1904 - Harold Larwood was born (d. 1995). English cricket bowler of the "Bodyline" series.
• 1904 - Dick Powell was born (d. 1963). American actor.
• 1905 - John Henry Barbee was born (d. 1964). American guitarist and singer.
• 1906 - Louise Brooks was born (d. 1985). American actress.
• 1907 - Howard W. Hunter was born (d. 1995). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1907 - Astrid Lindgren was born (d. 2002). Swedish writer.
• 1907 - William Steig was born (d. 2003). American cartoonist and children's book author.
• 1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark dies (b. 1848). Australian politician.
• 1908 - Joseph McCarthy was born (d. 1957). US Senator, known for his accusations of Communism within Government ranks.
• 1908 - The Guangxu Emperor of China dies (b. 1871).
• 1910 - Eric Malpass was born (d. 1996). English novelist.
• 1910 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
• 1911 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
• 1912 - Barbara Hutton was born (d. 1979). American socialite.
• 1912 - T. Y. Lin was born (d. 2003). Chinese-American civil engineer.
• 1914 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar dies (b. 1861). Malayali Journalist and Short story writer
• 1915 - Martha Tilton was born. American singer
• 1915 - Booker T. Washington dies (b. 1856). American inventor, educator, and author
• 1916 - Saki dies (b. 1870). British writer.
• 1916 - Paulo Guedes was born in Porto Alegre-RS. Brazilian musician and composer.
• 1916 - Roger Apéry was born (d. 1994). French mathematician.
• 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz was born. American television writer and producer.
• 1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic with Thomas G. Masaryk as President
• 1919 - Johnny Desmond was born (d. 1985). American singer.
• 1919 - Veronica Lake was born (d. 1973). American actress.
• 1919 - Lisa Otto was born. German soprano
• 1921 - Brian Keith was born (d. 1997). American actor.
• 1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
• 1922 - Princess Isabel (Isabel Cristina Leopoldina Augusta) "A Redentora" dies in Paris. Brazilian princess, abolicionist.
• 1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
• 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born. Egyptian UN Secretary-General
• 1924 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan was born (d. 1982). Russian violinist.
• 1926 - Cleide Yaconis was born in Pirassununga-SP. Brazilian actress.
• 1927 - Bart Cummings was born. Australian race horse trainer (eleven Melbourne Cup wins)
• 1927 - McLean Stevenson was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1929 - Jimmy Piersall was born. Baseball player
• 1929 - Fernando Torres was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1930 - Edward White was born (d. 1967). Astronaut.
• 1930 - Shirley Crabtree was born (d. 1997). Professional wrestler better known as Big Daddy
• 1930 - Monique Mercure was born. French Canadian actress
• 1933 - Fred Haise was born. American astronaut
• 1934 - Catherine McGuinness was born. Irish Supreme Court Justice
• 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan was born (d. 1999)
• 1936 - Freddie Garrity was born (d. 2006). English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers).
• 1937 - Jack O'Connor dies (b. 1869). Baseball player.
• 1939 - Wendy Carlos was born. American composer
• 1940 - World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers.
• 1940 - Prime Minister Suala Mirakashaminoto of the Neo-Japanese sector in Japan dies from an explosive planted on his vehicle while driving to the Japanese Embassy. Reports say that the attack was carried out by a terrorist by the name of Ken Buenker.
• 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.
• 1943 - Peter Norton was born. American software engineer and businessman
• 1943 - Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero was born. Honduras politician and economist.
• 1944 - D. Alberto Allen Pereira de Sequeira Bramão dies in Lisbon (b. 1865). Portuguese poet and journalist.
• 1944 - Carl Flesch dies (b. 1873). Hungarian violinist.
• 1945 - Stella Obasanjo was born. Nigerian First Lady.
• 1945 - Bolívia is admitted in United Nations.
• 1946 - Manuel de Falla dies (b. 1876). Spanish composer.
• 1946 - É atribuido ao suiço Hermann Hesse o Premio Nobel de Literatura.
• 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke was born. American writer
• 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales was born.
• 1948 - Vera Gimenez was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 1949 - James Young was born. American guitarist (Styx)
• 1950 - Zhang Yimou was born. Chinese film director.
• 1951- Stephen Bishop was born. American musician
• 1952 - First UK chart published by the New Musical Express
• 1953 - Dominique de Villepin was born. French prime minister
• 1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser assumes (2nd. time) the Presidency of Egypt.
• 1954 - Bernard Hinault was born. French cyclist
• 1954 - Condoleezza Rice was born. United States Secretary of State
• 1954 - Yanni was born. Greek musician.
• 1955 - Koichi Nakano was born. Japanese cyclist
• 1956 - Alec John Such was born. American bassist (Bon Jovi)
• 1956 - Almir Sater was born in Campo Grande- MS. Brazilian composer and singer
• 1959 - Paul McGann was born. British actor
• 1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice was born. American actor, director, writer
• 1962 - Laura San Giacomo was born. American actress
• 1962 - Stefano Gabbana was born. Italian stylist ( Dolce & Gabbana )
• 1964 - Bill Hemmer was born. American television news reporter
• 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
• 1966 - Curt Schilling was born. Baseball player
• 1966 - Petra Roßner was born. German cyclist
• 1967 - Letitia Dean was born. British actress
• 1967 - Nina Gordon was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1967 - David Sheridan was born. American Industralist
• 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
• 1969 - Butch Walker was born. Recording artist, songwriter, and record producer
• 1970 - UNESCO adopts the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. It would enter into force on 24 April 1972
• 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.
• 1971 - Adam Gilchrist was born. Australian cricketer
• 1972 - Martin Pike was born. Australian football player.
• 1972 - Edyta Górniak was born. Polish singer
• 1972 - Matthew Bloom was born. American wrestler
• 1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
• 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr. dies (b. 1900). American politician
• 1973 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
• 1973 - Lawyer Milloy was born. American football player
• 1973 - Dana Snyder was born. Voice actor
• 1973 - Moka Only was born. Canadian musician
• 1974 - O senegalês Amadou Mahtar M'bow (b. 1921, ~) substitui René Maheu no cargo de director-geral da UNESCO.
• 1974 - Adam Walsh was born (d. 1981). Son of John Walsh
• 1974 - Matt Cedeño was born. Cuban-American actor
• 1975 - Travis Barker was born. American drummer (Blink 182) ((+44))
• 1975 - Spain abandons Western Sahara.
• 1975 - Luizão (Luiz Carlos Goulart) was born. Brazilian football player
• 1976 - NR Indu was born. Indian table tennis player.
• 1977 - Obie Trice was born. American rapper
• 1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada dies (b. 1896). Founder-Acarya of ISKCON
• 1978 - Xavier Nady was born. Baseball player
• 1978 - Mersing Nguyen was born. American actress
• 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.
• 1979 - A ONU adopta uma resolução em que reclama a retirada das tropas vietnamitas do Camboja.
• 1979 - Mavie Hörbiger was born. German actress.
• 1979 - Tobin Esperance was born. Musician (Papa Roach)
• 1981 - Ibro Hasanovic was born. Bosnian conceptual artist and theoretician.
• 1981 - Robert Bradford dies assassinated (b. 1941). Northern Irish footballer and politician
• 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
• 1982 - Um comando da ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) sequestra em Zumárraga (País Basco) o industrial Saturnino Orbegozo.
• 1982 - Stephen Hughes was born. Scottish football player
• 1983 - O poeta Rafael Alberti obtém o Premio Miguel de Cervantes de Literatura.
• 1983 - Lil Boosie was born. American rapper
• 1990 - After German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming 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 - In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
• 1991 - Tony Richardson dies (b. 1928). English film director.
• 1992 - Ernst Happel dies (b. 1925). Austrian football coach.
• 1993 - Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers.
• 1994 - Tom Villard dies (b. 1953). American actor.
• 1994 - Rafael Guillén logra el Premio Nacional español de Poesía por su obra Los estados inmortales.
• 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.
• 1995 - Shimon Peres is elected prime-minister of Israel.
• 1997 - 14-year-old Reena Virk is beaten and then murdered by fellow teenagers Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski.
• 1997 - Eddie Arcaro dies (b. 1916). American jockey
• 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.
• 2000 - Robert Trout dies (b. 1908). American journalist
• 2001 - Attack on Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.
• 2001 - Charlotte Coleman dies (b. 1968). British actress.
• 2002 - Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
• 2002 - The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
• 2002 - Eddie Bracken dies (b. 1915). American film actor.
• 2003 - Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
• 2003 - Gene Anthony Ray dies (b. 1962). American actor
• 2003 - World chess champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov [b. 13 April 1963], with Black, loses against computer program X3D Fritz in the second game of a match, whose first game was a draw on 11 November 2003
• 2004 - Margaret Hassan dies (b. 1945). Irish-born aid worker
• 2004 - Michel Colombier dies (b. 1939). French composer, songwriter and conductor.
• 2005 - Venezuela and Mexico retires their ambassadors from the other country (each other)
• 2006 World Usability Day
• World Diabetes Day
• India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's day
• Roman festivals - Equorum Probatio
• United States - National Children's Book Week begins
• Dia do Bandeirante (Brasil)