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Today in HISTORY

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976Nov 14T’ai tsu, emperor of China and founder of Sung-dynasty, died.
1380Nov 14King Charles VI of France was crowned at age 12.
1501Nov 14Arthur Tudor married Katherine of Aragon.
1524Nov 14Pizarro began his 1st great expedition, near Colombia.
1666Nov 14Samuel Pepys reported the on 1st blood transfusion, which was between dogs.
1732Nov 141st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, was hired in Phila.
1831Nov 14Ignaz Joseph Pleyel (74), Austrian composer and piano builder, died.
1833Nov 14Charles Darwin departed by horse to Montevideo.
1863Nov 14There was a skirmish at Danville, Mississippi.
1881Nov 14Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
1905Nov 14David Belasco’s “Girl of Golden West,” premiered in NYC.
1908Nov 14Oscar Strauss’ musical “The Chocolate Soldier,” premiered in Vienna.
1918Nov 14Republic of Czechoslovakia was created with T.G. Masaryk as president.
1919Nov 14Red Army captured Omsk, Siberia.
1921Nov 14The Cherokee Indians asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas.
1930Nov 14Right-wing militarists attempted to assassinate Japanese Premier Hamagushi.
1935Nov 14Nazis stripped German Jews of their citizenship. 1940        Nov 14, Coventry, England, was devastated by German bombers in the worst air raid of World War II, killing 1,000.
1942Nov 14Last Vichy French troops in Algeria surrendered.
1944Nov 14Tommy Dorsey and Orchestra recorded “Opus No. 1” for RCA Victor.
1946Nov 14Manuel de Falla (69), Spanish composer (Vita Breve, Atl ntida), died.
1951Nov 14United States and Yugoslavia signed a military aid pact.
1956Nov 14The Hungarian revolt was put down.
1960Nov 14President Dwight Eisenhower ordered U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charged Castro with starting uprisings.
1961Nov 14President Kennedy increased the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000.
1964Nov 14“Oliver!” closed at Imperial Theater NYC after 774 performances.
1968Nov 14In Connecticut Yale University announced its plan to go co-ed.
1969Nov 14The United States launched Apollo 12 for the moon from Cape Kennedy.
1971Nov 14In Egypt Shenouda III (b.1923) became the Coptic Orthodox Pope and the 116th successor to Saint Mark the Evangelist.
1973Nov 14Britain’s Princess Anne married Capt. Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey. However, they divorced in 1992, and Anne re-married.
1981Nov 14In Egypt the weight of Lake Nasser unexpectedly triggered earthquakes, such as the 5.2 magnitude quake on Nov 14, 1981.
1984Nov 14The Space Shuttle Discovery crew rescued a second satellite.
1986Nov 14The Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a record $100 million penalty against inside-trader Ivan F. Boesky and barred him from working again in the securities industry.
1987Nov 14A bomb hidden in a box of chocolates exploded in the lobby of Beirut’s American University Hospital, killing seven people, including the woman who was carrying it.
1989Nov 14The U.S. Navy, alarmed over a recent string of serious accidents, ordered an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down.
1990Nov 14President Bush told congressional leaders he had no immediate plans to go to war in the Persian Gulf.
1992Nov 14As preparations for the presidential transition continued, President-elect Clinton told reporters in Little Rock, Ark., that a compromise on a line-item veto proposed by House Speaker Thomas Foley could prove acceptable.
1993Nov 14Don Shula became the winningest coach in NFL history.
1994Nov 14Heavy rains and flooding from Tropical Storm Gordon swept across Haiti, killing several hundred people.
1996Nov 14The first General Motors electric automobile, the EV1, was produced in Lansing, Mich. Its range was estimated at 70-90 miles before recharge.
1997Nov 14A US federal court ruled that spent reactor fuel must be accepted by the Energy Dept. beginning no later than Jan 31, even though no disposal site yet exists. Financial penalties could result.
1998Nov 14In Argentina negotiators from 150 countries agreed to set a 2 year deadline for adopting operational rules of the Kyoto Protocol for cutting emissions of industrial waste gases that were believed to cause global warming.
1999Nov 14Democrat Bill Bradley took center court at New York’s Madison Square Garden for a $1.5 million presidential campaign fund-raiser that featured his old Knick teammates and former basketball rivals.
2000Nov 14MP3.com agreed to pay $53.4 million in damages to Universal Music Group.
2001Nov 14Pres. Bush nominated Sean O’Keefe, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, to head NASA.
2002Nov 14Nancy Pelosi became the 1st woman to lead a party in the US Congress after Democrats voted 177-29 in support of the liberal from SF. Robert Menendez of New Jersey was elected as caucus chairman, the highest post ever held by an Hispanic
2003Nov 14The White House honored winners of the National Medal for the Humanities.
2004Nov 14Usher was honored with four trophies at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, including favorite male soul-R&B artist, best pop-rock album, best pop-rock artist and best soul-R&B album.
2005Nov 14China reported a new case of bird flu in poultry in the country’s east, its ninth outbreak since Oct. 19.
2006Nov 14A new report by the independent Combating Terrorism Center at West Point said the scholarly work of a group of Saudi and Jordanian clerics exerted more influence on the jihadist movement than al Qaida leaders.
2007Nov 14In Afghanistan’s Helmand province coalition forces killed several militants with gunfire and airstrikes. Five rebel fighters were killed in a clash in Uruzgan province.
2008Nov 14The US Army promoted its first woman, Ann Dunwoody, to the rank of four-star general.
2009Nov 14In Riverside County, Ca., Maysam Barbar and daughter Tamara (6) were found dead in their Perris home. Suspect Michael Barbar, the husband and stepfather, was arrested the next day in Deming, NM.
2010Nov 14Bangladesh police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and swung batons to break up demonstrations in Dhaka as the opposition party enforced a nationwide general strike to protest the eviction of its leader from a military-owned house.
2011Nov 14It was reported that the Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian tribe, plans to issue its first bonds in a $120 million offering to finance some 50 projects on its 27,000-square-mile reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
2012Nov 14California held its first carbon auction under the new state cap-and-trade system. The median bid was $12.96 and all 23.1 million permits for use in the coming year were sold.
2013Nov 14Pres. Barack Obama admitted he deserved to be “slapped around” over the chaotic debut of his health care law, and pledged to work hard to restore confidence in his reeling presidency.
2014Nov 14President Barack Obama pledged a $3 billion US contribution to an international fund to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change.
Source: Timelines of History  

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