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

1963: Surtsey eruptin

1990: Oder-Neisse Line, mairch atween Germany an Poland

• 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

Claude Monet

Charles, Prince o Wales

• 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