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.
• 1305 - Clement V was crowned pope, becoming the first of the Avignon popes.
• 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.
• 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire.
  
• 1540 - Giovanni Battista Di Jacopo was born. Italian painter.
• 1556 - Giovanni della Casa dies (b. 1504). Italian poet.
• 1567 - Maurice of Nassau was born (d. 1625). Prince of Orange.
• 1582 - English dramatist William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.
  
• 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.
• 1740 - Johann van Beethoven was born (d. c. 1792). Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher.
• 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.
• 1770 - Scottish explorer James Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile.
• 1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat was born (d. 1802). French anatomist and physiologist.
• 1776 - Henri Dutrochet was born (d. 1847). French physiologist.
• 1777 – Nathaniel Claiborne was born (d. 1859). U.S. politician.
  
• 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.
• 1812 - Maria Christina of Savoy was born (d. 1836). Queen of the Two Sicilies.
• 1817 - Policarpa Salavarrieta dies (b. 1795). Colombian revolutionary.
• 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.
• 1831 - Ignaz Pleyel dies (b. 1757). Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano manufacturer.
• 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 Porto (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.
• 1863 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born (d. 1944). Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite.
• 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 - Gregorio del Pilar was born (d. 1899). Filipino general.
• 1875 - Jakob Schaffner was born (d. 1944). Swiss novelist.
• 1878 - Julie Manet was born (d. 1966). French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot.
• 1878 - Leopold Staff was born (d. 1957). Polish poet.
• 1879 - José Marques de Abreu was born in Tábua, Coimbra (d. 3 Aug 1958). Portuguese professor and graphic artist.
• 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.
• 1885 - The Serbo-Bulgarian War began when Serbian King Milan Obrenovic IV declared war on Bulgaria.
• 1887 - Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso was born in Amarante (d. 1918). Portuguese painter.
• 1888 - Institute Pasteur is inaugurated in Paris.
• 1889 - Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
• 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru was born (d. 1964). Prime Minister of India.
• 1891 - Frederick Banting was born (d. 1941). Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1895 - Louise Huff was born (d. 1973). American actress.
• 1895 – Maggie Renfro was born. American supercentenarian
• 1895 - Walter Freeman was born (d. 1972). American physician.
• 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 - Dick Powell was born (d. 1963). American actor.
• 1904 - Harold Larwood was born (d. 1995). English cricketer.
• 1905 - John Henry Barbee was born (d. 1964). American guitarist and singer.
• 1906 - Louise Brooks was born (d. 1985). American actress.
• 1907 - Astrid Lindgren was born (d. 2002). Swedish writer.
• 1907 - Howard W. Hunter was born (d. 1995). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 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 - 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.
• 1910 - Eric Malpass was born (d. 1996). English novelist.
• 1910 - John La Farge dies in Providence, Rodhe Island (b. 31 March 1835). American painter and worker in stained glass.
• 1911 - Clarence Gray was born (d. 1957). American comic strip creator of Brick Bradford.
• 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, author and first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University). He was the most influential spokesman for African Americans in the late 19th and the early 20th century.
• 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.
• 1916 - Henry George, Jr. dies (b. 1862). American politician.
• 1916 - Saki dies (b. 1870). British writer.
• 1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic with Thomas G. Masaryk as President.
• 1919 - Johnny Desmond was born (d. 1985). American singer.
• 1919 - Lisa Otto was born. German soprano.
• 1919 - Veronica Lake was born (d. 1973). American actress.
• 1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
• 1921 - Brian Keith was born (d. 1997). American actor.
• 1921 - Dick Farney was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 04 Aug 1987). Brazilian pianist, composer and singer.
• 1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
• 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born. Egyptian UN Secretary-General.
• 1922 - Princess Isabel (Isabel Cristina Leopoldina Augusta) "A Redentora" dies in Paris. Brazilian princess, abolicionist.
• 1923 - Kentaro Suzuki completed his ascent of Mount Iizuna.
• 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.
• 1927 - Narciso Yepes was born (d. 1997). Spanish classical guitarist.
• 1929 - Fernando Torres was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1929 - Jimmy Piersall was born. American baseball player.
• 1929 – Shirley Crabtree, aka Big Daddy, was born (d. 1997). Professional wrestler.
• 1930 - Charles De Sorgher was born. Belgian bobsledder.
• 1930 - Edward White was born (d. 1967). Astronaut.
• 1930 – Michael Robbins was born (d. 1992). British actor.
  
• 1930 - Monique Mercure was born. French Canadian actress.
• 1931 - José Severiano de Rezende dies in Paris (b. 21 Jan 1871 in Mariana). Brazilian poet (“Mistérios” - 1920).
• 1932 – Gunter Sachs was born. German mathematician.
• 1933 - Fred Haise was born. American astronaut.
• 1934 - Catherine McGuinness was born. Irish Supreme Court Justice.
• 1934 - Kurt Hamrin was born. Swedish soccer player.
• 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan was born (d. 1999).
• 1936 – Carey Bell was born (d. 2007). American blues musician.
  
• 1936 - Cornell Gunter was born (d. 1990). American singer (The Coasters).
• 1936 - Freddie Garrity was born (d. 2006). English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers).
• 1937 - Murray Oliver was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1937 - Jack O'Connor dies (b. 1869). Baseball player.
• 1938 - Paulo Medeiros Gastão was born in Triunfo da Baixa Verde, PE. Brazilian folklorist and writer, president of Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos do Cangaço (SBEC).
• 1939 - McLean Stevenson was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 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.
• 1942 - Bob Sharp was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian race car driver.
• 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 - Bolivia joins to United Nations.
• 1945 - Paul Hirsch was born. American film editor.
• 1945 - Stella Obasanjo was born (d. 2005). Nigerian First Lady.
• 1946 - Manuel de Falla dies (b. 1876). Spanish composer.
• 1946 - É atribuido ao suiço Hermann Hesse o Premio Nobel de Literatura.
• 1947 - Bharathan was born (d. 1998). Malayalam film director.
• 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke was born. American writer.
• 1947 - Joseph Allard dies (b. 1873). French Canadian fiddler.
• 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales was born. First child of HM Elizabeth II.
• 1948 - Vera Gimenez was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 1949 – Gary Grubbs was born. American actor.
• 1949 - James Young was born. American guitarist (Styx).
• 1949 – Raul Di Blasio was born. Argentine pianist, composer, producer.
• 1951 – Alec John Such was born. American musician (Bon Jovi).
• 1951 - Frankie Banali was born. American rock drummer.
• 1951 - Stephen Bishop was born. American musician.
• 1951 - Zhang Yimou was born. Chinese film director.
• 1952 - The first regular UK singles chart is published by the New Musical Express.
• 1953 - Dominique de Villepin was born. French prime minister.
• 1953 - Phil Baron was born. American voice actor.
• 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.
• 1955 - Jack Sikma was born. American basketball player.
• 1956 - Alec John Such was born. American bassist (Bon Jovi).
• 1956 - Almir Sater was born in Campo Grande- MS. Brazilian composer and singer.
• 1957 - The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
• 1957 - Michael J Fitzgerald was born. American writer.
• 1959 - Clutter family murdered in rural Kansas, which inspired the Truman Capote novel, In Cold Blood.
• 1959 – Paul Attanasio was born. American screenwriter and producer.
• 1959 - Paul McGann was born. British actor.
• 1960 - Burkina Fasso and Nigeria join to UNESCO.
• 1960 – Remi Moses nwas born. English footballer.
• 1960 - Tom Judson was born. American actor and composer.
• 1961 - Antonio Flores was born (d. 1995). Spanish singer and songwriter.
• 1961 - D. B. Sweeney was born. American actor.
• 1961 – Elizabeth Keifer was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice was born. American actor, director, writer.
• 1962 - The Ethiopian parliament and Eritrean Assembly voted unanimously for the abolition of Eritrea's federal status, making Eritrea (independent since 1993) a simple province of the Ethiopian empire.
• 1962 - Harland Williams was born. Canadian-born
• actor.
• 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.
• 1964 - Patrick Warburton was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Rev Run was born. American rapper.
• 1964 – Rockie Lynne was born. American musician.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The 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 - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., The Monkees' fourth album, is released.
• 1967 - 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".
• 1967 - Letitia Dean was born. British actress.
• 1967 - Nina Gordon was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1968 - Janine Lindemulder was born. American porn actress.
• 1968 - Serge Postigo was born. Quebec actor.
• 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.
• 1970 – Brendan Benson was born. American musician (The Raconteurs).
• 1970 - David Wesley was born. American basketball player.
• 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
• 1971 - Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
• 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.
• 1971 - Marco Leonardi was born. Italian-Australian actor.
• 1971 - William Bendeck dies (b. 1934). Bolivian rally driver.
• 1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
• 1972 - Aaron Taylor was born. American football player.
• 1972 - Edyta Górniak was born. Polish singer.
• 1972 - Josh Duhamel was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Martin Pike was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1972 - Matthew Bloom was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr. dies (b. 1900). American politician.
• 1973 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
• 1973 - England football captain Bobby Moore plays his last international match - against Italy at Wembley - his 108th game for his country.
• 1973 - Dana Snyder was born. American voice actor.
• 1973 - Lawyer Milloy was born. American football player.
• 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 - David Moscow was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Matt Cedeño was born. Cuban-American actor.
• 1974 - Vittorio de Sica dies (b. 1901). Italian actor and film director.
  
• 1975 - Spain abandons Western Sahara.
• 1975 - Faye Tozer was born. British musician (Steps).
• 1975 – Gary Vaynerchuk was born. Russian-American wine expert.
• 1975 - Luizão (Luiz Carlos Goulart) was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1975 – Nicolai Cleve Broch was born. Norwegian actor.
• 1975 - Travis Barker was born. American musician (Blink-182, +44).
• 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 - Bobby Allen was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1978 – Chris Shar was born. American musician (Stiffed (band)), (Man Man), (Santigold)
• 1978 - Mersing Nguyen was born. American actress.
• 1978 – Michala Banas was born. New Zealand actress.
• 1978 - Xavier Nady was born. American baseball player.
• 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 - Jean-Alain Boumsong was born. French footballer.
• 1979 - Mavie Hörbiger was born. German actress.
• 1979 – Miguel Sabah was born. Mexican footballer.
• 1979 - Olga Kurylenko was born. Ukrainian model and actress.
• 1979 - Tobin Esperance was born. Musician (Papa Roach).
• 1980 - Brock Pierce was born. American actor.
• 1981 - Ibro Hasanovic was born. Bosnian conceptual artist and theoretician.
• 1981 - Tom Ferrier was born. British racing driver.
• 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 - Kyle Orton was born. American football player (Chicago Bears).
• 1982 – Laura Ramsey was born. American actress.
• 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.
• 1984 - Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
• 1984 – Courtney Johns was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1984 - Lisa De Vanna was born. Australian female footballer.
• 1984 - Marija Šerifović was born. Serbian singer.
• 1985 - Thomas Vermaelen was born. Belgian footballer.
• 1986 - Berta Grosser was born. German actress.
• 1988 - Bruna Ruperto Camillo D. das Chagas was born in Brasília, Brazil. Author of the famous sentence «As pessoas inteligentes gostam de Fado: o Fado é fodástico»; Empress of Brasigal (ficcional Kingdom ... yet).
  
• 1989 - Jake Livermore was born. English footballer.
• 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.
• 1990 - Jessie Jacobs was born (d. 2008). Australian actress and singer.
• 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 - Diana, Princess of Wales discloses she has given a major interview to the BBC TV programme Panorama in which she discusses the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles and admits committing adultery.
• 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.
• 1996 - John A. Cade dies (b. 1929). American politician.
• 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.
• 1997 - Jack Pickersgill dies (b. 1905). Canadian politician.
• 1998 - Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra are married in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 1999 - Zé Kety dies (b. 06 Oct 1921). Brazilian singer and composer (samba).
• 2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
• 2000 - Robert Trout dies (b. 1908). American journalist.
• 2001 - Inauguration of Museo de Arte Pinar del Rio in Cuba.
• 2001 - War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.
• 2001 - Charlotte Coleman dies (b. 1968). British actress.
  
• 2001 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo dies (b. 1922). Argentine footballer.
  
• 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 - Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
• 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
• 2003 - Gene Anthony Ray dies (b. 1962). American actor.
• 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 - Ronaldo Azeredo dies in São Paulo (b. 1937, in Rio de Janeiro). Brazilian concrete poet (see what is concrete poetry).
• 2007 - the last direct-current distribution by Con Edison was shut down.
• Roman festivals - Equorum Probatio.
• India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's Day.
• National Day of Burma/Myanmar.
• United States - National Children's Book Week begins.
• Colombia - "Day of the Colombian Woman".
• World Diabetes Day.
• Dia doBandeirante e Dia Nacional da Alfabetização (Brasil).