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World
Diabetes Day Events
of the day
1533 β Conquistadors from
Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro
arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire
1770 β James Bruce discovers what he believes
to be the source of the Nile
1862 β American Civil War: President Abraham
Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's
plan to capture the Confederate capital at
Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle
of Fredericksburg.
1889 β Pioneering female journalist Nellie
Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful
attempt to travel around the world in less
than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two
days.
1910 β Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first
take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS
Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1916 β World War I: The Battle of the Somme
ends.
1918 β Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
1921 β The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
1922 β The BBC begins radio service in the
United Kingdom.
1940 β World War II: In England, the city
of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe
bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely
destroyed.
1941 β World War II: The aircraft carrier
HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage
from the German submarine U-81 sustained on
November 13.
1941 β World War II: In Slonim, German forces
engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000
Jews in a single day.
1952 β The first regular UK singles chart
published by the New Musical Express.
1957 β The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton,
New York is raided by law enforcement, and
many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
1965 β Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang
begins β the first major engagement between
regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
1967 β The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration
of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa
Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day
of the Colombian Woman".
1967 β American physicist Theodore Maiman
is given a patent for his ruby laser systems,
the world's first laser.
1969 β Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo
12, the second crewed mission to the surface
of the Moon.
1970 β Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian
the fourth official language of organization.
1970 β Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes
in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia,
killing 75, including members of the Marshall
University football team.
1971 β Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as
Pope of Alexandria
1973 β In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne
marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster
Abbey.
1975 β Spain abandons Western Sahara.
1979 β Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy
Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing
all Iranian assets in the United States in
response to the hostage crisis.
1982 β Lech WaΕΔsa, the leader of Poland's
outlawed Solidarity movement, is released
after eleven months of internment near the
Soviet border.
1984 β Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco,
a prominent critic of the government of Philippine
President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated
in his home city.
1990 β After German reunification, the Federal
Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland
sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line
as the border between Germany and Poland.
1991 β American and British authorities announce
indictments against two Libyan intelligence
officials in connection with the downing of
the Pan Am Flight 103.
1991 β Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns
to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
1991 β In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United
States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting
rampage, killing four and wounding five before
committing suicide.
1995 β A budget standoff between Democrats
and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces
the federal government to temporarily close
national parks and museums and to run most
government offices with skeleton staffs.
2001 β War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern
Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
2002 β Argentina defaults on an $805 million
World Bank payment.
2003 β Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad
Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover
90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
2007 β The last direct-current electrical
distribution system in the United States is
shut down in New York City by Con Edison.
Holidays
and observances
Children's
Day, celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal
Nehru. (India)
Christian Feast Day:
Barlaam of Kiev
Philip the Apostle (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Serapion of Algiers
November 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Colombian Woman (Colombia)
Equorum Probatio, the official cavalry parade
of the equites, is held. (Roman Empire)
World Diabetes Day (International)
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