What are the important events that happened on November 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 14 is the 318^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 1, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,384,640 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecaoctagon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 95 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,711 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 14 Historical Events

• 1533 –
  Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire
• 1862 –
  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.
• 1940 –
  World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
• 1952 –
  The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
• 1957 –
  The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
• 1967 –
  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”.
• 1970 –
  Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
• 1971 –
  Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
• 1990 –
  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 –
  Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.

Who were born on November 14?

• 1650 –
  King William III of England (d. 1702)
• 1863 –
  Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)
• 1900 –
  Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
• 1915 –
  Martha Tilton, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1916 –
  Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
• 1935 –
  King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• 1949 –
  Gary Grubbs, American actor
• 1951 –
  Frankie Banali, American rock drummer
• 1978 –
  Michala Banas, New Zealand actress
• 2002 –
  Ben Bowen, American brain cancer victim (d. 2005)

Who died on November 14?

• 565 –
  Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
• 1359 –
  Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
• 1687 –
  Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
• 1829 –
  Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
• 1832 –
  Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (b. 1737)
• 1916 –
  Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
• 1937 –
  Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• 1947 –
  Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873)
• 1999 –
  Minos Volanakis, Greek theatre director and translator
• 2001 –
  Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)