129601 | November 14 | Event | 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom. |
129602 | November 14 | Event | 1932 – Al Shorta SC, one of Iraq's biggest football clubs, are founded as Montakhab Al Shorta. |
129603 | November 14 | Event | 1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed. |
129604 | November 14 | Event | 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13. |
129605 | November 14 | Event | 1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day. |
129606 | November 14 | Event | 1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express. |
129607 | November 14 | Event | 1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested. |
129608 | November 14 | Event | 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces. |
129609 | November 14 | Event | 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". |
129610 | November 14 | Event | 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. |
129611 | November 14 | Event | 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon. |
129612 | November 14 | Event | 1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization. |
129613 | November 14 | Event | 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team. |
129614 | November 14 | Event | 1971 – Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria. |
129615 | November 14 | Event | 1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. |
129616 | November 14 | Event | 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. |
129617 | November 14 | Event | 1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara. |
129618 | November 14 | Event | 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. |
129619 | November 14 | Event | 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border. |
129620 | November 14 | Event | 1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city. |
129621 | November 14 | Event | 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. |
129622 | November 14 | Event | 1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. |
129623 | November 14 | Event | 1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile. |
129624 | November 14 | Event | 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. |
129625 | November 14 | Event | 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. |
129626 | November 14 | Event | 2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul. |
129627 | November 14 | Event | 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object. |
129628 | November 14 | Event | 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C. |
129629 | November 14 | Event | 2010 – Germany's Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula One's Drivers Championship to become the sport's youngest champion. |
129630 | November 14 | Event | 2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate. |