November 14

Friday 14, 2003:

Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.

Thursday 14, 2002:

The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.

Wednesday 14, 2001:

Attack on Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.

Tuesday 14, 2000:

Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.

Saturday 14, 1998:

Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra are married in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tuesday 14, 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 run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

Sunday 14, 1993:

Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers.

Thursday 14, 1991:

A fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five, before committing suicide.

Wednesday 14, 1990:

Germany modifies its Basic Law to recognise the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

Thursday 14, 1985:

Tragedy in Colombia: eruption of volcano Nevado del Ruiz provoked 23 000 deaths in city of Armero (was buried).

Sunday 14, 1982:

Lech Wa??sa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

Wednesday 14, 1979:

Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

Friday 14, 1975:

Spain abandons Western Sahara.

Wednesday 14, 1973:

In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

Tuesday 14, 1972:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.

Sunday 14, 1971:

His Holiness Shenouda III was concescrated as the 117th Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Saturday 14, 1970:

Southern Airways DC-9 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75.

Friday 14, 1969:

Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

Sunday 14, 1965:

the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

Friday 14, 1952:

1952 - First UK chart published by the New Musical Express

Friday 14, 1941:

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.

Thursday 14, 1940:

World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers.

Tuesday 14, 1922:

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

Monday 14, 1921:

The Communist Party of Spain is founded.

Thursday 14, 1918:

Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

Thursday 14, 1889:

Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.

Friday 14, 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.

Friday 14, 1851:

after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.

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