Today In History - November 14

1380 King Charles VI of France is crowned at the age of 12
1524 Pizarro's begins first great expedition, near Colombia
1550 Pope Julius III proclaims a new seat on the Council of Trente
1666 Samuel Pepys' reports on first blood transfusion
1675 Pope Clemens X declares Gorcumse martyrs divine
1677 Prince Willem III Henry marries English Princess Mary Stuart
1698 Spanish King Carlos appoints his grandson, Prince Jozef Ferdinand, as the heir
1732 The first U.S. professional librarian, Louis Timothee, is hired in Philadelphia
1755 Henry Fox appointed the English Secretary of State
1775 Floods ravage the Dutch coast provinces
1792 Captain George Vancouver is the first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
1832 The first horse-drawn streetcar debuts in New York City fare: 12¢
1833 Charles Darwin departs for Montevideo
1834 William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months of age
1851 The novel "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, is published
1863 Bedford Forrest is assigned the command of West Tennessee
1863 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1881 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination
1881 Leon Gambetta forms the French government
1888 St. Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers, NY, opens: 6 hole course
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly began her attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days. She succeeded: 72 days, 6 hours
1896 The power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1906 Teddy Roosevelt becomes first U.S. President to visit a foreign country (Panama)
1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light
1910 The first airplane flight from the deck of a ship
1918 The Republic of Czechoslovakia is created with T.G. Masaryk as president
1919 The Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
1922 The BBC begins domestic radio service at the Marconi House
1927 The world's largest gas tank explodes in Pittsburgh: 28 people die
1931 The Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in England
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1935 Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship
1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 people and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
1940 German planes destroy most of Coventry, England
1941 Governor-General Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jewish refugees
1942 The last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
1954 Egyptian President Naguib is fired and a state of emergency is declared
1956 The Hungarian revolt put down
1957 Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto to become the NWA wrestling champ
1957 Henry Aaron wins the NL MVP
1959 Kilauea's largest eruption: Hawaii
1960 Two passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 people in Czechoslovakia
1960 Belgium threatens to leave the United Nations due to criticism on it's Congo-policy
1960 The OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) forms
1960 Riots due to school integration in New Orleans
1965 Marlene Hagge wins the LPGA Alamo Golf Open
1965 The U.S. government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 rounds for the heavyweight title
1968 "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
1968 The first European lung transplant
1968 Yale University announces it is going co-educational
1969 The 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
1970 A DC-9 crashes in West Virginia and 75 people are killed
1972 The Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for first time: 1003.16
1973 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner Captain Mark Phillips
1973 Canada begins production of Olympic coins
1973 Jim Palmer is named the AL Cy Young winner
1973 Reggie Jackson wins the AL MVP Award (unanimously)
1975 Spain, Morocco, and Mauretania sign an accord about the Spanish Sahara
1976 War criminal Pieter Menten is captured one day after fleeing
1977 Egypt's President Sadat repeats his willingness to visit Israel to Walter Cronkite
1979 California's Don Baylor, wins the AL MVP
1980 Kimberley Santos is crowned the 30th Miss World
1980 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa is released
1983 The first cruise missile is placed: Greenham Common, England
1985 Holmfriour Karlsottir of Iceland, 22, is crowned the 35th Miss World
1985 Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, thousands of people are killed
1986 Doubleday Publishing sells the New York Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon
1986 FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP in Philadelphia
1986 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1987 "La Cage aux Folles" closes at the Palace Theater in New York City after 1,761 performances
1987 Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by is Debbie Bennett
1990 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 Great Britain performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 Michael Heseltine contests Minister Thatcher's leadership of party
1990 The Philippines are hit by a typhoon and 110 people die
1992 Actress Peg Phillips, of Northern Exposure, falls and breaks 3 fingers
1993 The 23rd New York City Women's Marathon is won by Uta Pippig: 2:26:24
1993 24th New York City Marathon is won by Andres Espinosa: 2:10:04
1993 Don Shula becomes the winningest coach in NFL history
1993 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st U.S. state
1994 The first public trains run in the English Channel Tunnel
1997 Colorado Rockie Larry Walker wins the NL MVP
1997 Walt Disney's "Lion King" sets a Broadway record of $2,700,000.00 daily sale

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