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
- 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.
- 1889 –Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
- 1921 –The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
- 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 –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”.
- 1969 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
- 1970 –Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
- 1971 –Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
- 1975 –Spain abandons Western Sahara.
- 1982 –Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
- 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.
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