14 November

The 14t o November is the 318t day o the year (319t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 47 days bidin.

 Events 
 1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on a Caribbean island, namin it Santa Cruz.
 1921 - The Spaingie Communist Pairty is foondit.
 1922 - BBC radio programmes begin.
 1940 - Warld War II: German bombin raid on Coventry, Ingland.
 1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser taks pouer in Egyp.
 1962 - Haile Selassie annexes Eritrea.
 1963 - Surtsey, an island off the sooth o Iceland, is creatit bi a volcanic eruption.
 1967 - Theodore Maiman gets a patent for his ruby laser seestems.
 1969 - NASA launches Apollo 12, the seicont manned mission tae the Muin.
 1971 - The Mariner 9 enters intae orbit around Mars.
 1975 - Spain abandons Wastren Sahara.
 1990 - Germany an Poland agree on the Oder-Neisse Line as the mairch atween their kintras.
 1991 - Norodom Sihanouk returns tae Cambodie efter 13 year in exile.
 2003 - Sedna, an object further away frae the Sun than Pluto, is discoverit.
 2010 - Sebastian Vettel wins his first Formula Ane championship.
 2012 - Israel launches a militar operation in the Gaza Strip.
 2014 - Nicola Sturgeon becomes leader o the Scots Naitional Pairty.
 2015 - A TGV train crashes intae a river in Alsace, Fraunce, killin 10 fowk.

 Births 
 1650 - William II, Keeng o Scots (d. 1702)
 1719 - Leopold Mozart, German componer, conductor, teacher an violinist (d. 1787)
 1797 - Charles Lyell, Scots geologist (d. 1875)
 1826 - John Jeffrey, Scots botanist (d. 1854)
 1840 - Claude Monet, French penter (d. 1926)
 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime meenister o Indie (d. 1964)
 1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1941)
 1900 - Aaron Copland, American componer (d. 1990)
 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swadish writer (d. 2002)
 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, American politeecian (d. 1957)
 1910 - Norman MacCaig, Scots poet (d. 1996)
 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretar General o the Unitit Naitions (d. 2016)
 1930 - Edward Higgins White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
 1934 - Dave Mackay, Scots fitbawer (d. 2015)
 1935 - Hussein o Jordan (d. 1999)
 1943 - Dave Smith, Scots fitbawer
 1948 - Charles, Prince o Wales
 1952 - Maggie Roswell, American actress
 1953 - Dominique de Villepin, French politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Fraunce
 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, American politeecian, 66t Unitit States Secretar o State
 1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
 1965 - Greg Hands, American-Inglis politeecian
 1972 - Josh Duhamel, American actor
 1979 - Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French actress an model
 1982 - Iain Russell, Scots fitbawer
 1984 - Vincenzo Nibali, Italian cyclist
 1985 - Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian fitbawer
 1989 - Keith Watson, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
 565 - Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (b. 1482)
 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathemateecian an philosopher (b. 1646)
 1724 - John Murray, 1st Duke o Atholl, Scots nobleman, politeecian and sodger (b. 1660)
 1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
 1841 - John Kerr, 7t Marquess o Lowden, Scots politeecian (b. 1794)
 1908 - Guangxu Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1871)
 1915 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (b. 1856)
 1919 - John Aitken, Scots meteorologist (b. 1839)
 1933 - David Murray, Scots laundscape penter (b. 1849)
 1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spainyie componer (b. 1876)
 1992 - Ernst Happel, Austrick fitbawer an manager (b. 1925)
 2017 - Jack Blessing, American actor (b. 1951)

 Halidays 
 Children's Day (Indie)
 Day o the Colombie Woman
 Warld Diabetes Day

 Ootside airtins 

Category:Days o the year