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.
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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 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
- 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: 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.
- 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.
- 1973 –In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
- 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.
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