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==Events== *1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile. *1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville is published in the USA. *1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg. *1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days. *1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS ''Birmingham'' in a Curtiss pusher. *1914 – The Ottoman Empire declares war against Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro during the early months of World War I. *1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. *1921 – Foundation of the Communist Party of Spain. *1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom. *1932 – Al Shorta SC, one of Iraq's biggest football clubs, are founded as ''Montakhab Al Shorta''. *1938 – The Lions Gate Bridge (a National Historic Site of Canada) connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic. *1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed. *1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier sinks due to torpedo damage from the sustained on November 13. * 1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day. *1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the ''New Musical Express''. *1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested. *1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana. *1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces. *1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman". * 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. *1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches ''Apollo 12'', the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon. *1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization. * 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team. *1971 – Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria. * 1971 – ''Mariner 9'' enters orbit around Mars. *1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. * 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins. *1975 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara. *1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis. *1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border. *1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city. *1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland. *1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. * 1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile. * 1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide. *1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs. *2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul. *2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object. *2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C. *2010 – Germany's Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula One's Drivers Championship to become the sport's youngest champion. *2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「November 14」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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