Today in history, Nov 14th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 14th!

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/11/14/today-in-history-nov-14th/

1501	Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon.
1881	Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield. (He was convicted and hanged.)
1882	Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, loses his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie.
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1910	Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk.
1921	The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas.
1922	The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House.
1930	Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamagushi.
1935	Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated.
1940	German bombers devastate Coventry in Great Britain, killing 1,000 in the worst air raid of the war.
1951	The United States and Yugoslavia sign a military aid pact.
1951	French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam.
1960	New Orleans integrates two all-white schools.
1960	President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings.
1961	President Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000.
1963	Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast.
1963	Greece frees hundreds who were jailed in the Communist uprising of 1944-1950.
1964	The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops.
1968	Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed.
1969	The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy.
1972	The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time.
1973	Britain’s Princess Anne married Capt. Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey.
1984	The Space Shuttle Discovery’s crew rescues a second satellite.
1986	The SEC fined Ivan F. Boesky $100 million for insider stock trading.
1995	The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while government offices operated with skeleton crews.
1999	The United Nations imposed sanctions on Afghanistan for refusing to hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden.