| 1501 |
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Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon. |
| 1812 |
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As Napoleon Bonaparte’s army retreats form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero. |
| 1851 |
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Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York. |
| 1882 |
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Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, loses his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie. |
| 1908 |
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Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light. |
| 1910 |
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Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk. |
| 1921 |
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The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas. |
| 1922 |
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The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House. |
| 1930 |
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Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamagushi. |
| 1935 |
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Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated. |
| 1940 |
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German bombers devastate Coventry in Great Britain, killing 1,000 in the worst air raid of the war. |
| 1951 |
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The United States and Yugoslavia sign a military aid pact. |
| 1951 |
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French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam. |
| 1960 |
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New Orleans integrates two all-white schools. |
| 1960 |
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President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings. |
| 1961 |
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President Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000. |
| 1963 |
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Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast. |
| 1963 |
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Greece frees hundreds who were jailed in the Communist uprising of 1944-1950. |
| 1964 |
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The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops. |
| 1968 |
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Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed. |
| 1969 |
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The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy. |
| 1984 |
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The Space Shuttle Discovery’s crew rescues a second satellite. |
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Born on November 14 |
| 1650 |
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William III, King of England (1689-1702). |
| 1765 |
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Robert Fulton, American engineer who invented the first steamboat. |
| 1840 |
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Claude Monet, French impressionist painter. |
| 1889 |
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Jawaharala Nehru, Indian nationalist leader. |
| 1900 |
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Aaron Copeland, American composer whose works include Billy the Kidd, Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man. |
| 1906 |
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Louise Brooks, silent film star, symbol of the 1920s flapper. |
| 1907 |
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Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children’s writer (Pippi Longstocking). |
| 1908 |
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Joseph McCarthy, anti-Communist senator from Wisconsin. |
| 1908 |
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Harrison Sallisbury, journalist for The New York Times. |
| 1948 |
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Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of England. |
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One Comment to “Today in History: November 14”
I was born on november 11 1996 so cool about every thing that happened on my birth day
By sarah livingston on Apr 5, 2009 at 8:45 pm