SomeFacts | November 14

On this day - November 14

Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.

1680 — German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of ...

1770 — James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the ...

1812 — Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals ...

1851 — Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.

1889 — Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth ...

1910 — Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ...

1914 — The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was ...

1918 — The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of ...

1920 — Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri ...

1921 — The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first ...

1922 — The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the ...

1938 — The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore ...

1940 — World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German ...

1941 — World War II: German troops, aided by local auxiliaries, ...

1941 — World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to ...

1952 — The New Musical Express publishes the first regular UK Singles ...

1957 — The "Apalachin meeting" in rural Tioga County in ...

1960 — Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an ...

1965 — Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins. This is the first ...

1967 — American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ...

1967 — The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th ...

1969 — Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed ...

1970 — Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near ...

1970 — Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official ...

1971 — Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.

1973 — The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of ...

1973 — In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark ...

1975 — With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western ...

1977 — During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam ...

1978 — France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the ...

1979 — US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, ...

1982 — Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity ...

1984 — Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the ...

1990 — While on approach to Zurich Airport, Alitalia Flight 404 ...

1990 — After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany ...

1991 — Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after ...

1991 — American and British authorities announce indictments against ...

1992 — In poor conditions caused by Cyclone Forrest, Vietnam Airlines ...

1995 — A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the ...

2001 — A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the ...

2001 — War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take ...

2003 — Astronomers discover Sedna, a distant trans-Neptunian dwarf ...

2008 — Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-126 to continue ...

2008 — The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.

2012 — Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip ...

2016 — A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikōura, New Zealand, at a ...

2017 — A gunman kills four people and injures 12 others during a ...

2019 — A mass shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, ...