Historical Events Happened In November - 14

1844  On November - 14 flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41  

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

1851  On November - 14 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published  

1860  Feliks Ostrowski, composer, dies at 58 on November - 14.  

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

1863  Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee on this day in history.  

1863  Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi on this day in history.  

1863  Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite) on this day in history.  

1875  Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater on this day in history.  

1877  On this day in history rené de Clerq, Flemish poet/author (Emergency Horn)  

1879  On November - 14 geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer  

1880  On this day in history eugene O'Brien, Boulder OH, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)  

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

1881  On this day in history 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 this day in history bernhard Paumgartner, Austria, musicologist/conductor/composer  

1888  St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes on November - 14.  

1889  NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip on this day in history.  

1889  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 on this day in history.  

1889  On this day in history 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  On November - 14 carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (Madonna dei filosofi)  

1894  On this day in history start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" (BG)  

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

1894  On November - 14 harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist  

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

1896  On November - 14 mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1953-61)  

1897  John Steuart Curry, US painter/lithographer (Baptism in Kansas) on this day in history.  

1900  The birth of Aaron Copland, American composer on this day in history.  

1900  Clara Fasano, sculptor on November - 14.  

1901  On November - 14 morton Downey, Wallingford Ct, singer (Star of the Family)  

1902  Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies on November - 14.  

1904  Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer on this day in history.  

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1511  On this day in history birth of janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia)  

1567  On November - 14 birth of maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)  

1601  On November - 14 birth of jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)  

1650  On this day in history birth of willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England (1689-1702)  

1663  Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1719  Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 November - 14.  

1226  On this day in history death of frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)  

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 this day in history.  

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