Historical Events For November - 14

1844  Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41 on this day in history.  

1845  Allen Hill, cricketer (took the 1st wicket in Test cricket) on November - 14.  

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  On November - 14 bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee  

1863  Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi on November - 14.  

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

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

1877  René de Clerq, Flemish poet/author (Emergency Horn) on November - 14.  

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1879  On this day in history 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  Charles J Guiteau went on trial for Pres Garfield's assassination on this day in history.  

1883  On November - 14 nikolaos Plastiras, Greek premier (1945, 50, 51-52)  

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

1888  St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes on this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1893  On November - 14 gerhart Hauptmanns "Hanneles Himmelfahrt," premieres in Berlin  

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 November - 14.  

1894  Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez" (BG) on November - 14.  

1894  Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist on this day in history.  

1896  Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation on November - 14.  

1896  Mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1953-61) on this day in history.  

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

1900  On this day in history the birth of Aaron Copland, American composer  

1900  Clara Fasano, sculptor on November - 14.  

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

1902  On November - 14 paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies  

1904  On November - 14 alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer  

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1511  Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia) was born on this day in history.  

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

1601  On this day in history birth of jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)  

1650  Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England (1689-1702) was born on November - 14.  

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

1679  On November - 14 birth of omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius  

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

1740  Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792) was born on this day in history.  

0563  On this day in history justinianus, co-emperor of Byzantium (527-563), dies at 82  

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 November - 14 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  On November - 14 gregorius Palamas, Byzantine mystic/archbishop/saint, dies  

1391  On November - 14 death of nikola Tavelić, First Croatian saint (b. 1340)  

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