A Brief History
This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 14th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event.
Digging Deeper
On November 14, 1851, author Herman Melville published his greatest book, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
On November 14, 1889, American female journalist, Nellie Bly, began her trip around the world in a successful attempt to match the fictional story of Phileas Fogg who went Around the World in Eighty Days in the 1873 Jules Verne novel by the same title.
On November 14, 1910, self-taught aviator Eugene Ely took off from the deck of the USS Birmingham, near Norfolk, Virginia.
On November 14, 1941, British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sunk after being torpedoed by a German U-boat (submarine) the day before.
On November 14, 1967, physicist Theodore Maiman, an American working for Hughes Research Laboratories, was finally granted a patent for the “optical maser” (maser: microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) device he called the Laser (laser: light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), once the stuff of science fiction and now an everyday common electronic device.
On November 14, 1978, 40 years ago today, the #1 Song in the United States was the disco dance tune, “MacArthur Park,” by the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer.
On November 14th, 2013, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrated Saint Theodora who once spanked a man after he talked trash about his own wife!
On November 14, 2013, Canadian law enforcement struck a major blow against child exploitation when the outcome of Project Spade, a three-year operation which resulted in the international arrests of 348 criminals and the rescue of 383 exploited children and child sex slaves, was officially made public.
On November 14, 2015, a deadly attack at the Bataclan theatre, where attackers took hostages and engaged in a standoff with police that began the previous day, was ended.
On November 14, 2017, we took the opportunity to review the new film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri that we had the chance to screen the previous night in a full theater.
Superhero fans had their chance to be among the first in Cleveland to see Justice League on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 7:00 PM in Valley View, Ohio!
Dystopian science fiction action fans had their chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 7:00PM at Cinemark Valley View, 6001 Canal Rd, Valley View, OH 44125!
Question for students (and subscribers) to ponder: Which event that occurred on today’s date would you like to learn more about?
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Andrews, John and Matt Baker. Timeline of World History. Thunder Bay Press, 2020.
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