Historical Events In November - 14

1844  Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41 on November - 14.  

1845  Allen Hill, cricketer (took the 1st wicket in Test cricket) on this day in history.  

1851  "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published on this day in history.  

1860  On this day in history feliks Ostrowski, composer, dies at 58  

1861  On November - 14 frederick Jackson Turner, Wisc, historian/educator (Harvard U)  

1863  Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee on November - 14.  

1863  On November - 14 skirmish at Danville, Mississippi  

1863  Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite) on November - 14.  

1875  On November - 14 jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater  

1877  On November - 14 rené de Clerq, Flemish poet/author (Emergency Horn)  

1879  On November - 14 geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer  

1880  Eugene O'Brien, Boulder OH, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) on this day in history.  

1881  On November - 14 charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination  

1881  On November - 14 charles J Guiteau went on trial for Pres Garfield's assassination  

1883  On this day in history nikolaos Plastiras, Greek premier (1945, 50, 51-52)  

1887  On November - 14 bernhard Paumgartner, Austria, musicologist/conductor/composer  

1888  On November - 14 st Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes  

1889  On this day in history nY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip  

1889  On this day in history new York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours  

1889  On November - 14 jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1947-64)  

1892  James Meredith, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1912) on November - 14.  

1893  Gerhart Hauptmanns "Hanneles Himmelfahrt," premieres in Berlin on November - 14.  

1893  Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (Madonna dei filosofi) on this day in history.  

1894  Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" (BG) on this day in history.  

1894  On November - 14 start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez" (BG)  

1894  Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist on November - 14.  

1896  Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation on this day in history.  

1896  Mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1953-61) on November - 14.  

1897  On November - 14 john Steuart Curry, US painter/lithographer (Baptism in Kansas)  

1900  The birth of Aaron Copland, American composer on November - 14.  

1900  On November - 14 clara Fasano, sculptor  

1901  Morton Downey, Wallingford Ct, singer (Star of the Family) on November - 14.  

1902  On this day in history paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies  

1904  Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer on November - 14.  

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1511  Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia) was born on November - 14.  

1567  On this day in history birth of maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)  

1601  Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680) was born on November - 14.  

1650  On November - 14 birth of willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England (1689-1702)  

1663  Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer was born on November - 14.  

1679  On this day in history birth of omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius  

1719  On this day in history birth of johann Georg Leopold Mozart, composer  

1740  On this day in history birth of johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)  

0563  Justinianus, co-emperor of Byzantium (527-563), dies at 82 on November - 14.  

0784  On November - 14 alberik I, bishop of Utrecht, dies  

0976  T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies on this day in history.  

1226  Death of Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193) on this day in history.  

1263  Alexander Nevsky, [Aleksandr], Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir dies at 43 on November - 14.  

1359  Gregorius Palamas, Byzantine mystic/archbishop/saint, dies on this day in history.  

1391  Death of Nikola Tavelić, First Croatian saint (b. 1340) on November - 14.  

1522  On this day in history anne de Beaujeu, daughter of French king Louis XI, dies at 61