November 14......

November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 1558 Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'We ought not to dread death so. It is but to cease from sin and to enter into a better life.'

● 1739 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts.'

● 1741 In Wales, English revivalist George Whitefield, 27, married widow Elizabeth Burnell, 36. (Whitefield apparently did not allow marriage to interrupt his evangelistic activities, since he was not home when their first child was born.)

● 1784 Samuel Seabury, 55, was consecrated Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island, the first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church, and the first Anglican bishop in America.

● 1832 - The first streetcar - a horse-drawn vehicle called the John Mason - went into operation in New York City. The vehicle had room for 30 people.

● 1843 - Flora Tristan, French feminist/socialist, dies.

● 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.

● 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.

● 1872 - Large earthquake was used by Roman Catholic priests to justify missionizing the Chelan tribe in Central Washington.

● 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.

● 1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.

● 1903 - Women's Trade Union League formed.

● 1909 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) police chief Ramon Falcon and his secretary assassinated via bombing by Polish anarchist Simon Radowitzky, just four days after Radowitzky's 18th birthday.

● 1909 - Misbegotten birth of Joseph R. McCarthy, anti-communist senator and lunatic from Wisconsin, darling of the U.S. mainstream media until he outlived his usefulness.

● 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.

● 1915 - Booker T. Washington, educator, orator, founder of Tuskegee Institute, dies on the college's campus. Famed African-American educator and leader of the 19th century, whose message of acquiring practical skills and emphasizing self-help over political rights was popular among whites and segments of the African-American community. Aggressively opposed by critics such as W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.

● 1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for operating a birth control clinic.

● 1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

● 1920 - Congres of Paris (l'Union Anarchiste).

● 1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.

● 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

● 1925 - Surrealist art exhibit opens in Paris, causing great scandal.

● 1927 - A huge cylindrical gasometer -- the largest in the world -- located in the heart of the industrial center of Pittsburgh, Pa., developed a leak. Repairmen set out to look for it with an open-flame blowlamp, which ignited the five million cu. ft. of natural gas in the tank. Chunks of metal, some weighing more than 100 pounds, were scattered great distances, and the combined effects of air pressure and fire left a square mile devastated. Twenty-eight killed and hundreds injured.

● 1930 - General strike of 250,000 in Madrid, Spain, after police fire into crowd at workers' funeral.

● 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved. The Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely independent by July 4, 1946.

● 1935 - Hussein, the king of Jordan from 1953 to 1999, was born.

● 1938 - All Jews are expelled from colleges in Germany.

● 1938 - U.S. Supreme Court denies appeal by Siuslaw tribe of Oregon to receive any compensation for their stolen land.

● 1940 - World War II: In Great Britain, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by about 500 German Luftwaffe bombers, destroying most of the English town.

● 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.

● 1941 Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship was incorporated in Chicago. An interdenominational organization with chapters at both colleges and schools of nursing, IVCF provides Christian fellowship, nurture and discipleship among Christian college_age students.

● 1943 - During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and all of America's top military brass, narrowly escape disaster aboard the U.S. battleship Iowa, when a live torpedo is accidentally fired at them from a U.S. destroyer.

● 1943 - Ernie Nevers of the St. Louis Cardinals became the first professional football player to score six touchdowns in a single game.

● 1952 - First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.

● 1954 - "Ten Million Americans Mobilized for Justice" began campaign to collect 10 million signatures on a petition ordering the Senate not to censure Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Effort fell about nine million signatures short.

● 1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.

● 1957 - One hundred fifty thousand metalworkers rally against rearmament, Baden-Wuerttemberg, West Germany.

● 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

● 1967 - Five thousand demonstrators in New York City battle police during an appearance by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

● 1968 - Italian students lead a nationwide general strike.

● 1968 - Yale University announced it was going co-educational.

● 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

● 1969 - During the Vietnam War, Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, commander of the Third Marine Division, became the first general to be killed in Vietnam by enemy fire.

● 1969 - Mob of "Weathermen" and "crazies" storm South Vietnamese Embassy in Washington, D.C., and are thrown back by riot police, which they in turn pelt with rocks and bottles.

● 1969 - Thirty-five hundred march in Seattle against the Vietnam War.

● 1970 - Southern Airways DC-9 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.

● 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.

● 1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.

● 1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.

● 1972 - Filipino activist Bob Santos leads a multiracial march demanding more federal housing aid in Seattle.

● 1973 - Britain's Princess Anne married a commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. They divorced in 1992, and Princess Anne re-married..

● 1975 - Spain abandons Western Sahara.

● 1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.

● 1980 - Guinea-Bissau government falls.

● 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

● 1983 - The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.

● 1986 - Ivan Boesky agrees to plead guilty to an unspecified criminal count, pay a $100 million fine, and return his ill-gotten Wall Street profits; he was barred for life (sort of) from trading securities.

● 1987 - In the lobby of Beirut's American University Hospital a bomb hidden in a box of chocolates exploded. Seven people were killed including the woman carrying the box.

● 1988 - Israeli President Chaim Herzog formally asked Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to form a new government.

● 1989 - The U.S. Navy ordered an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down in the wake of a recent string of serious accidents.

● 1990 - Simon and Schuster announced it had dropped plans to publish Bret Easton Ellis novel "American Psycho."

● 1990 - Thirteen squats on Berlin's Mainzer Strausse evicted by 4,000 cops with helicopters and tanks.

● 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. This treaty also ends the war officially begun in 1939.

● 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, fired United States Postal Service employee, Thomas McIlvane, goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.

● 1992 - Two hundred thousand Germans protest in Bonn against racist neo-Nazi violence and the deportation of asylum seekers.

● 1993 - CIA role in Haitian drug trade disclosed. U.S. media yawns; U.S. government declines to investigate itself.

● 1993 - Appeals court in Daytona Beach, Florida, rules that an African American couple was deprived of a fair trial by an all-white jury that compared blacks to chimpanzees and told racist jokes. Eugena and Derrick Powell had sued their insurance company to cover losses from a traffic collision with an uninsured motorist. The Powells wanted $235,000 for medical expenses and lost wages. but the jury awarded them less than $11,000 dollars. After the trial, a juror described the May 1992 deliberations, saying jurors frequently spoke of "niggers" and joked that the Powells' children were probably drug dealers.

● 1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.

● 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 to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

● 1997 - 14-year-old Reena Virk is beaten and then murdered by fellow teenagers Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski.

● 1997 - Indonesian military enters the grounds of University of East Timor to quell anti-government protests, shooting at least six students.

● 1998 - Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman were married in Las Vegas, NV.

● 1999 - The United Nations imposed sanctions on Afghanistan for refusing to hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden.

● 2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.

● 2001 - Eight foreign aid workers - including two Americans - who had been accused of preaching Christianity in Afghanistan were freed by the Taliban.

● 2001 - Attack on Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.

● 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.

● 2003 - Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.

BIRTHS

● 1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)

● 1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702)

● 1668 - Johann von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect (d. 1745)

● 1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)

● 1746 - Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal

● 1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)

● 1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pysiologist (d. 1802)

● 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)

● 1779 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850)

● 1797 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)

● 1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)

● 1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)

● 1812 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)

● 1828 - James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d. 1864)

● 1838 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)

● 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)

● 1859 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (d. 1938)

● 1875 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (d. 1944)

● 1876 - Yekaterina Geltzer, Russian ballerina (d. 1962)

● 1878 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)

● 1883 - Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)

● 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Independence leader and Prime Minister of India (1947-64) (d. 1964)

● 1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)

● 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (1953-61) (d. 1979)

● 1898 - Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French Surrealist writer, essayist, and filmmaker (d. 1944)

● 1900 - Aaron Copland in New York City, American composer (d. 1990)

● 1904 - Michael Ramsey, English archbishop (d. 1988)

● 1904 - Harold Larwood, English cricketer (d. 1995)

● 1904 - Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963)

● 1905 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d. 1964)

● 1906 - Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)

● 1907 - Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)

● 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)

● 1907 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 2003)

● 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator and anti-communist, chairman of HUAC during some the worst days of the Republic, overall idiot (d. 1957)

● 1910 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (d. 1996)

● 1912 - Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)

● 1912 - T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003)

● 1915 - Martha Tilton, American singer

● 1916 - Roger Apéry, French mathematician (d. 1994)

● 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer

● 1919 - Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)

● 1919 - Lisa Otto, German soprano

● 1921 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)

● 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian former UN Secretary-General

● 1924 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982)

● 1927 - Bart Cummings, Australian race horse trainer

● 1928 - Kathleen Hughes, Actress

● 1929 - Jimmy Piersall, baseball player

● 1930 - Edward White, astronaut, died in fire in Apollo I on launch pad during simulations (d. 1967)

● 1930 - Shirley Crabtree, Professional wrestler better known as Big Daddy (d. 1997)

● 1934 - Catherine McGuinness, Irish Supreme Court Justice

● 1934 - Ellis Marsalis, Jazz pianist

● 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (1953-99) (d. 1999)

● 1936 - Carey Bell, Blues singer

● 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer

● 1939 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)

● 1943 - Peter Norton, American software engineer and businessman

● 1945 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady

● 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, American writer

● 1947 - Buckwheat Zydeco, Zydeco musician

● 1948 - Robert Ginty, Actor

● 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales, Heir to the British throne

● 1949 - James Young, Rock musician (Styx)

● 1951 - Stephen Bishop, American musician

● 1953 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France

● 1954 - Bernard Hinault, French cyclist

● 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State

● 1954 - Yanni, Greek musician

● 1955 - Koichi Nakano, Japanese cyclist

● 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor

● 1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor, director, writer

● 1961 - D.B. Sweeney, Actor

● 1964 - Nic Dalton, Rock musician (The Lemonheads)

● 1964 - Reverend Run, Rapper (Run-DMC)

● 1964 - Patrick Warburton, Actor

● 1964 - Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter

● 1965 - Jeanette Jurado, Singer

● 1966 - Curt Schilling, baseball player

● 1966 - Petra Roßner, German cyclist

● 1967 - David Sheridan, American Industralist

● 1967 - Letitia Dean, British actress

● 1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer and songwriter

● 1969 - Butch Walker, recording artist, songwriter, and record producer

● 1971 - Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer

● 1971 - Josh Duhamel, Actor (Vega$)

● 1972 - Martin Pike, Australian footballer

● 1972 - Edyta Górniak, Polish singer

● 1972 - Matthew Bloom, American wrestler

● 1973 - Lawyer Milloy, American football player

● 1973 - Dana Snyder, American voice actor

● 1973 - Moka Only, Canadian musician

● 1974 - Matt Bloom, American professional wrestler

● 1974 - Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh (d. 1981)

● 1975 - Travis Barker, American drummer (Blink 182) ((+44))

● 1977 - Obie Trice (Shyheim), American rapper

● 1978 - Xavier Nady, baseball player

● 1978 - Mersing Nguyen, American actress

● 1979 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress

● 1979 - Tobin Esperance, musician (Papa Roach)

● 1982 - Stephen Hughes, Scottish footballer

● 1983 - Lil Boosie, American rapper

● 1989 - Christopher Tse, 1337 Hacker

DEATHS

● 565 - Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)

● 1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)

● 1263 - Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir

● 1359 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)

● 1522 - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)

● 1556 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504)

● 1633 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)

● 1687 - Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)

● 1691 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)

● 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)

● 1734 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)

● 1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)

● 1825 - Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)

● 1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist

● 1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)

● 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (b. 1732)

● 1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)

● 1866 - King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)

● 1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)

● 1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)

● 1908 - The Guangxu Emperor of China, (b. 1871)

● 1914 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayali Journalist and Short story writer (b. 1861)

● 1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and author (b. 1856)

● 1916 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)

● 1937 - Jack O'Connor, baseball player (b. 1869)

● 1944 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)

● 1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)

● 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)

● 1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (b. 1896)

● 1981 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (assassinated} (b. 1941

● 1992 - Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b. 1925)

● 1994 - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)

● 1997 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)

● 2000 - Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)

● 2003 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)

● 2004 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic Saints:
● St. Lawrence
● St. Alberic
● St. Venaranda
● St. Serapion
● St. Clementinus
● St. Dubricus
● St. Hypatius
● St. Jucundus of Bologna
● St. Lawrence O'Toole
● St. Modanic
● St. Nicholas Tavelic & Companions, martyrs

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St Josaphat, archbishop of Polotsk, martyr

● Anglican and Roman Catholic:
● Feast of Consecration of Samuel Seabury, 1st US bishop

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
● October 29 (Civil Date: November 14)
● Martyr Anastasia the Roman.
● St. Abramius the Recluse and his niece St. Mary of Mesopotamia.
● St. Abramius, archimandrite of Rostov.
● St. Anna of Constantinople.
● Martyrs Claudius, Asterius, Neon and Theonilla of Aegae in Cilicia.
● St. Abramius, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● New Martyr Athanasius of Sparta, at Muatanach.
● Martyr Timothy of Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Cyril, Menas, and Menaeus.
● Martyr Melitene of Marcianopolis.

● Buddhist-Bhutan : Buddha's Descension

● Roman festivals - Equorum Probatio

● India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's Day

● Cayman Islands : Remembrance Day

● English commonwealth : Prince Charles' Birthday (1948)

● Jordan : King's Birthday (1935)

● United States - National Children's Book Week begins

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● West Germany : Repentance Day – ( Wednesday )
● England : Lord Mayor's Day – ( Saturday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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