November 14<\/p>\n
332 BC \u2013 Having defeated Darius III at Issus the year before, and conquered Egypt, Alexander the Great is crowned Pharaoh.<\/p>\n
1680 \u2013 German astronomer Gottfried Kirch, while working at Coberg, discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 Editors of the London newspaper The St. James Chronicle <\/em>name Benjamin Franklin as one of the leaders of the “rebellion in North America”.<\/p>\n 1851 \u2013\u00a0 Herman Melville’s novel, Moby Dick<\/em>, is published in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 American journalist Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, completing the trip in 72 days.<\/p>\n 1910 \u2013 Eugene Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship, flying a Curtiss Pusher<\/em> off the deck of the USS Birmingham <\/em>in Hampton Roads, Virginia<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 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”.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 NASA probe Mariner 9<\/em> enters orbit around Mars.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 President Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder\u2013Neisse river line as the border between Germany and Poland.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 American and British authorities announce indictments and issue arrest warrants against 2 Libyan intelligence officials,\u00a0 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah,\u00a0 in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Backed by U.S. forces, the Afghan Northern Alliance takes over the capital Kabul from the Taliban.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 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,\u00a0astronomers discover 90377 Sedna<\/em>, 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<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 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<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 A student at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, goes on a rampage, shooting 6 other students, killing 3, before committing suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 14 332 BC \u2013 Having defeated Darius III at Issus the year before, and conquered Egypt, Alexander the Great is crowned Pharaoh. 1680 \u2013 German astronomer Gottfried Kirch, while working at Coberg, discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope. 1776 \u2013 Editors of the London newspaper The … Continue reading 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