History Events on November 14
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor & Oudinot defeated by Wittgenstein.
#Napoleonic_Wars
American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
#Theodore_Maiman
Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
#Friedrich_Soennecken
Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
#Soviet_Union
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
#Apollo_program
A gunman kills four people and injures 12 others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama Reserve, California. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home.
#Rancho_Tehama_Reserve_shootings
Foundation of the Communist Party of Spain.
#Communist_Party_of_Spain
Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
#Norodom_Sihanouk
The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
#Lions_Gate_Bridge
Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
#Southern_Airways_Flight_932
With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.
#Madrid_Accords
Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
#Michael_E._Brown
Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
#Czechoslovakia
In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
#Anne,_Princess_Royal
Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
#Moby-Dick
Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
#Vietnam_War
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.
#American_Civil_War
Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
#Zamboanga_City
World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day.
#Slonim
Lech Wa??sa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
#Lech_Wa??sa
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".
#Congress_of_Colombia
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.
#Nellie_Bly
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400 km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
#2001_Kunlun_earthquake
France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29, 1975-78 French nuclear tests.
#France
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.
#German_reunification
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.
#Iran_hostage_crisis
Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
#Mariner_9
During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam Dalyell poses what would become known as the West Lothian question, referring to issues related to devolution in the United Kingdom.
#House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom
Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
#Israel
Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
#Ruby_Bridges
World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
#World_War_II
War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
#War_in_Afghanistan_(2001-present)
James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
#James_Bruce
World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
#Aircraft_carrier