What are the important events that happened on November 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 14 is the 318th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 1, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,384,640 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecaoctagon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 95 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,711 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 14 Historical Events
- 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 seventy-two days.
- 1918 –Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: The Battle of the 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.
- 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.
- 1984 –Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
- 1991 –American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
- 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.
- 2007 –The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.
Who were born on November 14?
- 1650 –King William III of England (d. 1702)
- 1919 –Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
- 1933 –Fred Haise, American astronaut
- 1951 –Leszek Cichy, Polish mountaineer
- 1954 –Bernard Hinault, French cyclist
- 1959 –Paul McGann, British actor
- 1968 –Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
- 1974 –David Moscow, American actor
- 1981 –Tom Ferrier, British racing driver
- 1982 –Kyle Orton, American football player
Who died on November 14?
- 1556 –Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504)
- 1749 –Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (b. 1713)
- 1866 –King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)
- 1872 –Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
- 1944 –Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
- 1971 –William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
- 1974 –Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1992 –Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b. 1925)
- 1997 –Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (b. 1905)
- 2001 –Charlotte Coleman, British actress (b. 1968)
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