About November 14
November 14, 2024 is the 319th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 76 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
- 1918 –Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
- 1922 –The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- 1940 –World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
- 1941 –World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
- 1952 –The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
- 1957 –The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
- 1967 –American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world’s first laser.
- 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”.
- 1970 –Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
- 1970 –Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
- 1973 –In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
- 1975 –Spain abandons Western Sahara.
- 1979 –Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
- 1982 –Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
- 1984 –Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
- 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 –Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
- 2001 –War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
- 2002 –Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
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