November 14 Events |
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November 14th, 2007 (November 14 2007) | Event | the last direct-current distribution by Con Edison was shut down. | |
November 14th, 2002 (November 14 2002) | Event | Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment. | |
November 14th, 2002 (November 14 2002) | Event | The United States House of Representatives votes not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks. | |
November 14th, 2001 (November 14 2001) | Event | War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul. | |
November 14th, 1995 (November 14 1995) | Event | A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs. | |
November 14th, 1991 (November 14 1991) | Event | American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. | |
November 14th, 1991 (November 14 1991) | Event | Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile. | |
November 14th, 1991 (November 14 1991) | Event | In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide. | |
November 14th, 1990 (November 14 1990) | Event | After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland. | |
November 14th, 1984 (November 14 1984) | Event | Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city. | |
November 14th, 1982 (November 14 1982) | Event | Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border. | Lech Walesa Quotes |
November 14th, 1979 (November 14 1979) | Event | Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
November 14th, 1975 (November 14 1975) | Event | Spain abandons Western Sahara. | |
November 14th, 1973 (November 14 1973) | Event | In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. | |
November 14th, 1972 (November 14 1972) | Event | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time. | |
November 14th, 1971 (November 14 1971) | Event | His Holiness Shenouda III is consecrated as the 117th Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church. | |
November 14th, 1971 (November 14 1971) | Event | Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. | |
November 14th, 1970 (November 14 1970) | Event | Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team. | |
November 14th, 1969 (November 14 1969) | Event | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon. | |
November 14th, 1967 (November 14 1967) | Event | 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". | |
November 14th, 1965 (November 14 1965) | Event | Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang beginsthe first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces. | |
November 14th, 1957 (November 14 1957) | Event | The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested. | |
November 14th, 1952 (November 14 1952) | Event | First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express. | |
November 14th, 1941 (November 14 1941) | Event | World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U-81 sustained on November 13. | |
November 14th, 1940 (November 14 1940) | Event | World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed. | |
November 14th, 1923 (November 14 1923) | Event | Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna. | |
November 14th, 1922 (November 14 1922) | Event | The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom. | |
November 14th, 1921 (November 14 1921) | Event | The Communist Party of Spain is founded. | |
November 14th, 1918 (November 14 1918) | Event | Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. | |
November 14th, 1910 (November 14 1910) | Event | Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. | |
November 14th, 1889 (November 14 1889) | Event | Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days. | |
November 14th, 1862 (November 14 1862) | Event | 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. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |