NOVEMBER 14 IN HISTORY

HISTORICAL EVENTS  ON 14th NOVEMBER

• 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
• 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India 
• 1889 – 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 72 days.
• 1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
• 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
• 1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
• 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
• 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
• 1970 - Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
• 1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
• 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
• 1983 - First cruise missile placed at Greenham Common, England
• 1984 - NASA launches NATO-3D
• 1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
• 1990 - Michael Heseltine contests Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the British Conservative Party
• 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
• 2006 - Andy Warhol's painting of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong sold for $17.4 million. At the same auction "Orange Marilyn" sold for $16.2 million and "Sixteen Jackies" sold for $15.6 million.
• 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
• 2009 - The National Statistical Service of Greece states that the country has been in recession since the beginning of the year
• 2010 – Germany's Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula One's Drivers Championship to become the sport's youngest champion.
• 2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
• 2012 - CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered, the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away)
• 2013 - Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes