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