November 14
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November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [change]
- 1889 – Nellie Bly begins her 72-day journey around the world.
- 1894 – Tsar Nicholas II marries Alexandra Fyodorovna.
- 1916 – Billy Hughes becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time.
- 1916 – World War II: The first Battle of the Somme ends.
- 1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a Republic.
- 1963 – The island of Surtsey is formed by a volcanic eruption off the south coast of Iceland.
- 1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
- 1982 – Lech Walesa is released from detention.
- 1990 – Germany and Poland agree to the Oder-Neisse Line forming their boundary.
- 1991 – Norodom Sihanouk returns to Cambodia after 13 years of exile.
- 2003 – One of the Solar System's most distant objects, 90377 Sedna, is discovered.
- 2010 – Sebastian Vettel becomes, to date, the youngest Formula One World Champion.
Births [change]
- 1650 – William III, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (d. 1702)
- 1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1787)
- 1740 - Johann van Beethoven, father and first teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven (d. 1792)
- 1765 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
- 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
- 1778 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer (d. 1837)
- 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
- 1863 - Leo Baekeland, Flemish chemist and inventor of Bakelite (d. 1944)
- 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
- 1891 – Frederick Banting, Canadian doctor, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1941)
- 1896 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower (d. 1979)
- 1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
- 1906 – Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
- 1907 - William Steig, American author (d. 2003)
- 1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American politician (d. 1957)
- 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
- 1917 – Pak Chŏng Hŭi, President of The Republic of Korea (d. 1979)
- 1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General
- 1927 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1929 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
- 1939 – Wendy Carlos, American composer
- 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales
- 1951 - Alec John Such, American musician (Bon Jovi)
- 1953 – Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
- 1954 – Condoleezza Rice, 66th United States Secretary of State
- 1955 – Matthias Herget, German footballer
- 1956 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer (d. 2010)
- 1959 – Paul McGann, English actor
- 1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
- 1971 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
- 1972 – Josh Duhamel, American actor
- 1975 - Faye Tozer, British singer (Steps)
- 1979 - Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian actress and model
- 1979 - Miguel Sabah, Mexican footballer
- 1981 - Russell Tovey, British actor
- 1984 - Marija Serifovic, Serbian singer
- 1987 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
Deaths [change]
- 565 - Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
- 1687 – Nell Gwyn, British actress and royal mistress (b. 1650)
- 1716 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)
- 1831 – Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
- 1908 - Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
- 1915 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and writer (b. 1856)
- 1922 – Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer (b. 1843)
- 1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
- 1977 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religion leader (b. 1896)
- 1985 – Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat (b. 1887)
- 1992 – Ernst Happel, Austrian football manager (b. 1925)
- 2001 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
- 2002 - Eddie Bracken, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2012 - Ahmed Jaabari, Palestinian military commander, Hamas (b. 1960)
