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
- 1770 –James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
- 1921 –The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
- 1922 –The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- 1952 –The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
- 2003 –Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
- 2007 –The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.
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