About November 14
November 14, 2025 is the 318th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
Are you looking for a day of the week calculator? Try it on any date like anniversaries, birthday of someone you know, or any other date that is special to you. You can even try it on historical dates. For example: November 14
(Sponsored by DayOfTheWeek.org)
Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 95 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 14
- 1533 –Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire
- 1770 –James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
- 1862 –American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside’s plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
- 1910 –Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
- 1916 –World War I: The Battle of the Somme ends.
- 1921 –The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
- 1922 –The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- 1941 –World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
- 1941 –World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the GS U-81 sustained on November 13.
- 1957 –The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
- 1970 –Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
- 1971 –Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
- 1975 –Spain abandons Western Sahara.
- 1990 –After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
- 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.
- 1991 –In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
- 2002 –Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
- 2003 –Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
Do you drink coffee? Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Try this! Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters ZQAXUUB? Check your answers here: Words with these letters ZQAXUUB. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
Share or Link to This Page: