14 November

Events

1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on a Caribbean island, namin it Santa Cruz.
1921 - The Spaingie Communist Pairty is foondit.
1922 - BBC radio programmes begin.
1940 - Warld War II: German bombin raid on Coventry, Ingland.
1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser taks pouer in Egyp.
1962 - Haile Selassie annexes Eritrea.
1963 - Surtsey, an island off the sooth o Iceland, is creatit bi a volcanic eruption.
1967 - Theodore Maiman gets a patent for his ruby laser seestems.
1969 - NASA launches Apollo 12, the seicont manned mission tae the Muin.
1971 - The Mariner 9 enters intae orbit around Mars.
1975 - Spain abandons Wastren Sahara.
1990 - Germany an Poland agree on the Oder-Neisse Line as the mairch atween their kintras.
1991 - Norodom Sihanouk returns tae Cambodie efter 13 year in exile.
2003 - Sedna, an object further away frae the Sun than Pluto, is discoverit.
2010 - Sebastian Vettel wins his first Formula Ane championship.
2012 - Israel launches a militar operation in the Gaza Strip.
2014 - Nicola Sturgeon becomes leader o the Scots Naitional Pairty.
2015 - A TGV train crashes intae a river in Alsace, Fraunce, killin 10 fowk.

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Births

1650 - William II, Keeng o Scots (d. 1702)
1719 - Leopold Mozart, German componer, conductor, teacher an violinist (d. 1787)
1797 - Charles Lyell, Scots geologist (d. 1875)
1826 - John Jeffrey, Scots botanist (d. 1854)
1840 - Claude Monet, French penter (d. 1926)
1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime meenister o Indie (d. 1964)
1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1941)
1900 - Aaron Copland, American componer (d. 1990)
1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swadish writer (d. 2002)
1908 - Joseph McCarthy, American politeecian (d. 1957)
1910 - Norman MacCaig, Scots poet (d. 1996)
1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretar General o the Unitit Naitions (d. 2016)
1930 - Edward Higgins White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
1934 - Dave Mackay, Scots fitbawer (d. 2015)
1935 - Hussein o Jordan (d. 1999)
1943 - Dave Smith, Scots fitbawer
1948 - Charles, Prince o Wales
1952 - Maggie Roswell, American actress
1953 - Dominique de Villepin, French politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Fraunce
1954 - Condoleezza Rice, American politeecian, 66t Unitit States Secretar o State
1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
1965 - Greg Hands, American-Inglis politeecian
1972 - Josh Duhamel, American actor
1979 - Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French actress an model
1982 - Iain Russell, Scots fitbawer
1984 - Vincenzo Nibali, Italian cyclist
1985 - Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian fitbawer
1989 - Keith Watson, Scots fitbawer

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Daiths

565 - Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (b. 1482)
1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathemateecian an philosopher (b. 1646)
1724 - John Murray, 1st Duke o Atholl, Scots nobleman, politeecian and sodger (b. 1660)
1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
1841 - John Kerr, 7t Marquess o Lowden, Scots politeecian (b. 1794)
1908 - Guangxu Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1871)
1915 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (b. 1856)
1919 - John Aitken, Scots meteorologist (b. 1839)
1933 - David Murray, Scots laundscape penter (b. 1849)
1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spainyie componer (b. 1876)
1992 - Ernst Happel, Austrick fitbawer an manager (b. 1925)
2017 - Jack Blessing, American actor (b. 1951)

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