Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 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. |
