November 14th: This Day in History

 

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

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On this day in 1380, King Charles VI of France was crowned at the age of 12. In 1524 on this day, Francisco Pizarro began his first great expedition, near Colombia. In 1833 on this day during his obviously fateful trip to South America, Charles Darwin departed by horse to Montevideo in modern day Uruguay. On this day in 1851, Moby Dick was published. In 1914 on this day during the Great War (World War I), the Ottoman Empire declared a holy war. In 1942 on this day, the last of the Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrendered. Onn this day in 1982, Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa was freed. Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile on this day in 1991.

Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

On this day in 1380, King Charles VI of France was crowned at the age of 12. In 1524 on this day, Francisco Pizarro began his first great expedition, near Colombia. Pope Julius III proclaimed new seat on Council of Trente on this day in 1550. In 1666 on this day, Samuel Pepys reported on the first blood transfusion (between dogs). On this day in 1675, Pope Clemens X declared Gorcumse martyrs divine. In 1680, Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet). Spanish king Carlos appointed grandson prince Jozef Ferdinand as heir on this day in 1698. In 1732, the first professional librarian in what would be the United States, Louis Timothee, was hired in Philadelphia. On this day in 1755,Henry Fox appointed British 'Secretary of State for the Southern Department'. In 1775 on this day and lasting until the 15th, floods ravaged Dutch coastal provinces. On this day in 1792, Captain George Vancouver became the first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay. In 1832 on this day, the first streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuted in New York City; with a fare of 12 cents, and which rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Street. In 1833 on this day during his obviously fateful trip to South America, Charles Darwin departed by horse to Montevideo in modern day Uruguay.

1834 - William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 yrs 4 months

1851 - "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published

1863 - Nathan Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee

1863 - Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi

1881 - Charles J Guiteau went on trial for assassination of President Garfield

1881 - Leon Gambetta forms French government

Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford ForrestConfederate General/KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest 1888 - St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes

1888 - USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game

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

1893 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Hanneles Himmelfahrt" premieres in Berlin

1894 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez" (BG)

1896 - Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation

1905 - David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West" premieres in NYC

1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama

1908 - Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light

1908 - Oscar Strauss' musical "Der tapfere Soldat" premieres in Vienna

1910 - 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va

1914 - Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game

1915 - Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia

1918 - Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president

1919 - Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia

Theoretical Physicist Albert EinsteinTheoretical Physicist Albert Einstein 1920 - American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards

1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.

1922 - BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House

1922 - German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth term ends

1923 - Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.

1927 - Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die

1931 - Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in Britain

1935 - FDR proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth

1935 - Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship

1936 - Bradman scores 192 for S A v Vic before a MCG crowd of 21000

1938 - Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die

1939 - Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela

1940 - During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England

1941 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before

1941 - Gov-Gen Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refuge

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1942 - -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal)

1942 - Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender

1943 - Chic Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)

1943 - J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN

1945 - H Lindsay & R Crouse's "State of the Union," premieres in NYC

1945 - Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government

1946 - Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11

1952 - Greek general Papagos wins elections

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

1953 - WCIA TV channel 3 in Champaign, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 - Egyptian pres Naguib fire, state of emergency declared

1956 - Hungarian revolt put down by Soviet invasion

1957 - Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ

1957 - Henry Aaron wins NL MVP

1957 - The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.

1959 - "Girls against the Boys" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 perfs

1959 - Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)

1960 - 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)

1960 - Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo

1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms

Musician Ray CharlesMusician Ray Charles 1960 - Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1

1960 - Riot due to school integration in New Orleans

1964 - "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 199 perfs

1964 - "Follies Bergere" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 perfs

1964 - "Oliver!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 774 performances

1964 - Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal

1965 - "Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 313 performances

1965 - George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) at 152 W 54th NYC, demolished

1965 - KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Alamo Golf Open

1965 - US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam

1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title

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".

1968 - "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning

1968 - 1st European lung transplant

1968 - Yale University announces it is going co-educational

1969 - 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US

1969 - Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing

1970 - DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed

1970 - Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV

1971 - Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria

1972 - Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)

1973 - "Good Evening" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 438 performances

1973 - Canada begins production of Olympic coins

1973 - Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner

1973 - Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP Award unanimously

1975 - Spain, Morocco & Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara

1976 - "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" closes at Playhouse NYC after 16 perfs

1976 - Cleveland Browns' Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks

1976 - War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing

1977 - Egypt Pres Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite

1979 - California's Don Baylor, wins AL MVP

1980 - Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral

1980 - Kimberley Santos, 19 of Guam, crowned 30th Miss World

1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 - 2nd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 2-returns to Earth

1981 - Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again

1981 - Pakistan all out 62 v Australia at WACA, Lillee 5-18

1981 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins

1982 - Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed

1983 - 1st cruise missile placed at Greenham Common England

1984 - Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit

1984 - NASA launches NATO-3D

1984 - Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.

1985 - Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers

1985 - Holmfriour Karlsottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World

1985 - Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed

1986 - Doubleday Publishing sells NY Mets to Nelson Doubleday & Fred Wilpon

1986 - FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Phila

1986 - SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky

1987 - "La Cage aux Folles" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 1761 perfs

1987 - Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett

1989 - Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award

1990 - Doug Drabek (22-6) wins NL Cy Young Award

1990 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1990 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1990 - Michael Heseltine contests Margaret Thatcher's leadership of party

1990 - Philippines hit by typhoon, 110 die

King of Pop Michael JacksonKing of Pop Michael Jackson 1991 - Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premieres on FOX TV

1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long loses his steroids appeal & is suspended without pay by NFL for 4 weeks

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.

1992 - Actress Peg Phillips (Northern Exposure), falls & breaks 3 fingers

1993 - "Kentucky Cycle" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 34 performances

1993 - "Twilight of the Golds" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 29 perfs

1993 - 23rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig in 2:26:24

1993 - 24th NYC Marathon won by Andres Espinosa in 2:10:04

1993 - Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history

1993 - Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state

1994 - 1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel

1994 - Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands

1996 - "Chicago" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC

1996 - Texas Ranger Juan Gonzalez wins AL MVP

King of Cambodia Norodom SihanoukKing of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk 1997 - Colo Rockie Larry Walker wins NL MVP

1997 - Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale

2001 - War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.

2002 - Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.

2002 - The United States House of Representatives votes not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.

2007 - the last direct-current distribution by Con Edison was shut down.

2012 - A series of protests against austerity measures occur across Europe including Spain, Portugal, and Greece

2012 - CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered, the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away)

1832 - The first streetcar went into operation in New York City, NY. The vehicle was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people.   1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S.   1881 - Charles J. Guiteau's trial began for the assassination of U.S. President 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.   1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began domestic radio service.   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.   1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.   1943 - Ernie Nevers of the St. Louis Cardinals became the first professional football player to score six touchdowns in a single game.   1951 - The first telecast of a world lightweight title fight was seen coast to coast. Jimmy Carter beat Art Aragon in Los Angeles.   1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.   1968 - Yale University announced it was going co-educational.   1969 - Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon from Cape Kennedy, FL.   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.   1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.  1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.   1973 - Britain's Princess Anne married a commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. They divorced in 1992, and Princess Anne re-married.   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.   1983 - The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.   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."   1991 - After 13 years in exile Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to his homeland.   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 - The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.







1851 Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick was published. 1889 Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72. 1922 The British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service. 1969 Apollo 12, the second manned lunar expedition, was launched. 1995 The U.S. federal government began a partial shut down of government services after the U.S. Congress could not pass a budget. 2002 Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to lead a party in Congress. 2003 The most distant object ever found in our solar system, named Sedna, was discovered by astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory.



The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:

http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov14.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory