November 14 in History

Historical Events on November 14

1812 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor & Oudinot defeated by Wittgenstein.

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.

1940 World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.

1965 Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

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.

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.

2012 Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.

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Famous Birthdays on November 14

1889 Jawaharlal Nehru

1898 Benjamin Fondane

1948 Charles, Prince of Wales

1954 Condoleezza Rice

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Famous Deaths on November 14

1716 Gottfried Leibniz

1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1915 Booker T. Washington

2015 Nick Bockwinkel

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