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, 1,763,078,400 seconds 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
- 1533 –Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire
- 1770 –James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
- 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.
- 1921 –The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
- 1922 –The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- 1940 –World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
- 1952 –The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
- 1984 –Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
- 1991 –Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
Who were born on November 14?
- 1601 –Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
- 1765 –Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
- 1803 –Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
- 1828 –James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d. 1864)
- 1863 –Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)
- 1929 –Shirley Crabtree, aka Big Daddy, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
- 1951 –Leszek Cichy, Polish mountaineer
- 1975 –Nicolai Cleve Broch, Norwegian actor
- 1978 –Michala Banas, New Zealand actress
- 1991 –Taylor Hall, Canadian hockey player
Who died on November 14?
- 565 –Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
- 1391 –Nikola Tavelić, Croatian saint (b. 1340)
- 1749 –Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (b. 1713)
- 1829 –Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
- 1907 –Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
- 1937 –Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1944 –Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
- 1960 –Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
- 1991 –Tony Richardson, English film director (b. 1928)
- 1994 –Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
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