About November 14
November 14, 2020 is the 319th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 90 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.
- 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.
- 1916 –World War I: The Battle of the Somme ends.
- 1918 –Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
- 1921 –The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
- 1941 –World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1971 –Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
- 1973 –In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
- 1975 –Spain abandons Western Sahara.
- 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.
- 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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