November 14

332 BC – Having defeated Darius III at Issus the year before, and conquered Egypt, Alexander the Great is crowned Pharaoh.

1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch, while working at Coberg, discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.

1776 – Editors of the London newspaper The St. James Chronicle name Benjamin Franklin as one of the leaders of the “rebellion in North America”.

1851 –  Herman Melville’s novel, Moby Dick, is published in the U.S.

1889 – American journalist Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, completing the trip in 72 days.

1910 – Eugene Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship, flying a Curtiss Pusher off the deck of the USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia

1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

1957 – The “Apalachin meeting” at the estate of Joseph “Joe the Barber” Barbara, in Apalachin, New York of over 100 leaders of organized crime in the U.S. is raided by local police, suspicious of all the expensive cars suddenly arriving in the small town, who arrest over 60 high level Mafia members.

1965 – Led by Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore, the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment engages the 33rd Regiment of the Peoples Army of Vietnam in the Ia Drang valley of South Vietnam, the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares the day as “Day of the Colombian Woman”.

1969 – NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932, a Douglas DC-9, crashes on landing approach in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75 passengers and crew aboard which includes almost all of the Marshall University football team.

1971 – NASA probe Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.

1979 – President Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse river line as the border between Germany and Poland.

1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments and issue arrest warrants against 2 Libyan intelligence officials,  Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah,  in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.

2001 – Backed by U.S. forces, the Afghan Northern Alliance takes over the capital Kabul from the Taliban.

2003 – Using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory at San Diego, and confirmed by observations at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, the Tenagra IV telescope in Nogales, Arizona, and the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, astronomers discover 90377 Sedna, a dwarf planet approximately 600 miles in diameter, in the outermost reaches of the Solar System and the most distant trans-Neptunian object yet found, at 8 billion miles at its closest approach to the sun in its orbit

2017 – After earlier murdering his wife in their home, a man kills 5 people and injures 18 others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama, California, before committing suicide after a police officer rams his car

2019 – A student at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, goes on a rampage, shooting 6 other students, killing 3, before committing suicide.