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|Nov 15 >> Events, deaths, births, of 14 NOV [For Nov 14 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1582~1699: Nov 24 1700s: Nov 25 1800s: Nov 26 1900~2099: Nov 27] |
On a 14 November: 2003 World chess champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov [13 April 1963~], with Black, loses against computer program X3D Fritz in the second game of a match, whose first game was a draw on 11 November 2003, and which will end in a match draw with its 4th game on 18 November 2003 (16 Nov Game 3). {to replay the games click here and then click the Archive tab}. 2002 The previous evening electric utility Aquila (ILA) reported cancellation of its dividend and a 3rd quarter 2002 loss of $1.85 per share, versus 3rd quarter 2001 net income of $0.58 per share. On the New York Stock Exchange, 13 million of the 180 million ILA shares are traded, falling from their previous close of $3.34 to an intraday low of $2.14, and closing at $2.16. They had traded as high as $26.73 as recently as 15 January 2002 and $37.55 on 21 May 2001. 2002 In Santa Barbara, California, Ronald Herrera, 57, is sentenced for stealing $11 worth of wine, lip balm and breath freshener, under a California law, passed in 1994, mandating 25 years to life for a felony committed by someone already convicted of two serious crimes. Herrera's record lists 17 serious felonies, including a 1971 home-invasion robbery and rape of a woman and her 15-year-old daughter, the shooting of a police dispatcher, and six armed robberies in Virginia. At trial, his lawyer said that Herrera has a brain injury that made him forget to pay. The US Supreme Court heard arguments earlier in November 2002 on whether such sentencing amounts to unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. 2002 In Rome, Sicilian Benedetto Marciante, 50, in hiding after being sentenced to 30 years prison for murder and seven years for association with the Mafia, surrenders to police, without admitting to the crimes, after hearing the broadcast of the speech to Parliament by pope John Paul II. 2000 Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush's 300-vote lead over Al Gore, hours after a judge refused to lift a 17:00 deadline; however, the judge gave Harris the authority to accept or reject follow-up manual recount totals. 2000 Después de dos años de negociaciones con el Gobierno, las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) rompen el diálogo y rechazan las propuestas de paz establecidas por el gobierno. 2000 Miss Schraeder, 16, is scheduled to report to an alternative school program in Detroit suburb Hazel Park. She has missed 523 school days since kindergarten. Her father, Bill Schraeder, 60, on 30 October, under a 1999 anti-truancy ordinance, was sentenced to 90 days in jail, 60 days being suspended as long as he satisfies probation requirements: attend parenting classes, get his daughter to school, under penalty of one day in jail for him for every day she is truant. 1997 La asamblea extraordinaria de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) aprueba por aclamación la Convención Interamericana contra la fabricación y tráfico ilícito de armas de fuego, municiones y explosivos. 1996 Microsoft announces that it will spent $400 million to develop Internet content and would continue to pump money into online businesses at the same high rate until the businesses began to turn a profit. Although the company launched a series of ambitious Internet projects, most of them failed to outperform Yahoo and America Online over the next several years. In 1998, the head of Microsoft's interactive media group resigned. 1996 AOL chief Steve Case appoints Robert Pittman president of America Online. Previously, Pittman had helped found MTV, served as CEO of Time Warner Enterprises, and served as head of Six Flags Entertainment Corp. and Century 21 Real Estate. Pittman brought a flashy, high-profile style to America Online and helped make it a household name. 1995 El Ejército de Sri Lanka conquista el cuartel general de la guerrilla tamil en Jafna, en una ofensiva que costó la vida a 1300 guerrilleros y 300 militares. 1995 Congress having failed to pass on time the necessary appropriation bills, the US government partially shuts down, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operate with skeleton crews. 1994 US experts visit North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections. |
1994 Documento del Papa Juan Pablo II exhortando a la
Iglesia a pedir perdón por los errores cometidos en los últimos mil años. 1994 Rafael Guillén logra el Premio Nacional español de Poesía por su obra Los estados inmortales.
1991 After 13 years in exile Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to his homeland. 1991 The press reports that President Bush and the Senate are considering limits on credit card interest rates. The Dow-Jones Industrial Average loses 120 points. 1991 US and British authorities announced indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.. 1989 The US Navy orders an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down in the wake of a recent string of serious accidents. 1988 Israeli President Chaim Herzog formally asked Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to form a new government. 1988 Los ministros españoles de Asuntos Exteriores y de Defensa, Francisco Fernández Ordóñez y Narcís Serra i Serra, respectivamente, firman el protocolo de adhesión de España a la Unión Europea Occidental (UEO).
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1985 Omaira Sánchez, 13, in Armero, Colombia,
spends all day trapped up to her neck in lahar (mud flow) caused by the
eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano shortly before midnight the day before.Vain
efforts to rescue her begin. Omaira will spend 60 hours in the mud and die
there on November 16. 1983 The British government announced that US-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests. 1983 El poeta Rafael Alberti obtiene el Premio Miguel de Cervantes de Literatura.
1979 La ONU adopta una resolución en la que reclama la retirada de las tropas vietnamitas de Camboya. 1977 Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite 1975 Spain abandoned the Spanish Sahara 1974 El senegalés Mahtar M'bo reemplaza a René Maheu en el cargo de director general de la UNESCO.
1970 UNESCO adopts the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. It would enter into force on 24 April 1972
1963 Iceland gets a new island when a volcano puches 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. 1961 President Kennedy increases the number of US military "advisors" in Vietnam from 1000 to 16'000. 1960 La ONU acusa a Moïse Tshombe, a Joseph Kasavubu y a sus colaboradores del asesinato de Patrice Emery Lumumba. 1960 Cuba se retira del Banco Mundial. 1960 President Dwight Eisenhower orders US naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings. 1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
1951 French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam. |
1947 La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas reconoce
la exigencia de independencia coreana. 1946 Se concede al suizo Hermann Hesse el Premio Nobel de Literatura.
1936 El Gobierno alemán declara nulo el Tratado de Versalles y restablece su soberanía.
1930 Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamagushi. 1927 Atentado frustrado en México contra el ex presidente, general Álvaro Obregón. 1925 Exposición surrealista en París, con obras de Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Man Ray, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso y Giorgio de Chirico. 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service. La BBC de Londres empieza a emitir sus espacios radiofónicos de actualidad que pueden captarse mediante radios de galena. 1921 The Cherokee Indians ask the US Supreme Court to review their claim to 400'000 hectares of land in Texas. 1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with Thomas G. Masaryk as President 1918 Jozef Pilsudski se convierte en Jefe de Estado en Polonia con plenos poderes dictatoriales. 1913 Exposición en el Salón de Otoño de Madrid de los pintores futuristas Francis Picabia, Albert Gleizes y Frantizek Kupka. 1912 El conde de Romanones, Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres, es nombrado presidente del Consejo de Ministros español. 1910 Lieutenant Eugene Ely, US 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. It was a Curtiss plane that made that takeoff. 1910, un avion biplane décolle du croiseur américain Birmingham. C'est la naissance de l'aéronavale. Onze mois plus tard, le pilote Eugène Ely réussit l'opération dans les deux sens (décollage et atterrissage) sur une plate-forme spécialement aménagée à l'arrière du cuirassé Pennsylvania. Le porte-avions est né. 1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light. Albert Einstein pronuncia su primera lección sobre la teoría de las radiaciones ante tres oyentes. 1901 El médico vienés Karl Landsteine publica en una revista clínica vienesa un artículo sobre su descubrimiento de tres grupos sanguíneos. 1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez 1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. 1881 Charles J Guiteau goes on trial for President Garfield's assassination. Guiteau would be convicted and hanged the following year. 1863 Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee 1863 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1834 William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months 1832 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents, rode on 4th Avenue between Prince & 14th Sts 1812 As Napoleon Bonaparte's army retreats from Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs) 1524 Francisco Pizarro sale de Panamá en su primera expedición hacia la costa del sur. 1501 Enrique VIII de Inglaterra contrae matrimonio con Catalina de Aragón, hija de los Reyes Católicos. |
2000 Fader Barsh, 15, Palestinian from the West Bank refugee camp of Al Amari,. by Israeli gunfire. 2000 Mustafa Mahmud Musa ‘Alyan, 47, Palestinian killed by Israeli settlers throwing stones, near Kufur Malek, Ramallah district, West Bank. 2000 Alfred Harding, shot dead by police in La Clery, near St. Castries, St. Lucia. He is ordered by an off-duty police officer to lie down and shot twice, once in the thigh and once in the spine. The St. Lucia government would be highly critical of human rights advocates who seek to bring the perpetrators to justice and Amnesty International would take up his case. 1996 Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, 68, Archbishop of Chicago. 1992 Gregorio Prieto Muñoz, pintor español. 1990 Malcolm Muggeridge, 87, WW II spy for Britain, journalist. He became a Roman Catholic in his old age, wrote a skeptical life of Christ and The Third Testament, a look at some notable but eccentric Christians. He brought Mother Teresa to world attention.
1980 Juan Lozano y Lozano, escritor, economista y político colombiano. 1971 Hanna Neumann, mathematician. 1968 Ramón Menéndez Pidal, filólogo e historiador español.
1955 Robert E Sherwood, 59, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois) 1954 Fischer, mathematician. 1946 Manuel de Falla y Mateu, compositor español.
1915 Booker T Washington, 59, educator/organizer, in Tuskegee, Alabama. 1908 Lorenzo Delleani, Italian artist born on 17 January 1840. 1884 Frederick William Hulme, British artist born on 22 October 1816. 1884 Abraham Hulk I, Dutch British artist born on 01 May 1813. 1857 Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch artist born on 25 September 1797. — more with an image. 1813 Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel, French painter and engraver born in 1735. — more with a link to links. 1797 Januarius Johann Rasso Zick, German painter and architect born on 06 February 1730. — more 1793 (24 brumaire an II) Marie Jeanne Canu, veuve Fleury, couturière de flanelle, domiciliée à Rouen, département de la Seine Inférieure, condamnée à mort comme contre-révolutionnaire, par le tribunal criminel dudit département (et très probablement guillotinée le jour-même).
1673 Mario Nuzzi (de Fiori, della Penna), Italian artist born in 1603. 1625 Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Italian painter and sculptor born in 1570. MORE ON PROCACCINI AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 0565 Justinian, 82, Roman emperor who reunited the Eastern and Western empires politically and religiously, erected several basilicas and created an influential law Code. |
Births
which occurred on a 14 November: 1957 Prohibido en otoño de Edgar Neville obtiene un gran éxito en el teatro Lara de Madrid. 1954 Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser to US minority-President George Dubyu Bush. 1948 Prince Charles Britain, Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of England. 1943 Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, político y economista hondureño. 1938 Les Parents Terribles, comedia de Jean Cocteau se estrena en París. 1935 Hussein ibn Talal I, king of Jordan (1953-1999). He died on 07 February 1999. — Portrait of King Hussein (1958, 43x61cm; 382x281pix, 33kb) by Bernard Safran [03 Jun 1924 – 14 Oct 1995]. 1926 Juan Antonio Vallejo-Nágera Botas, escritor y psiquiatra español. 1923 Carlos Seco Serrano, historiador español. 1922 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General 1921 El Partido Comunista de España (PCE) se constituye por fusión del Partido Comunista y del Partido Obrero.
1913 Mariano Navarro Rubio, político y abogado español. 1912 Barbara Hutton heiress (Woolworth) 1909 Joseph R. McCarthy (Sen-R-WI), anti-Communist demagogue who died discredited on 02 May 1957. 1908 Harrison E Salisbury journalist/writer (50th Anniv of Soviet Union) 1907 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (Pippi Longstocking). 1907 Pedro Arrupe Gondra, eclesiástico jesuita español. 1904 Marya Mannes writer (The Reporter) 1904 Michael Ramsey, English archbishop who died on 23 April 1988. 1900 Aaron Copland, Brooklyn, composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man.). He died on 02 December 1990. 1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, first Indian PM (1947-64). He died on 27 May 1964.
1883 Louis Casimir Ladislas Markus (Marcoussis), Polish French Cubist painter who died on 22 October 1941. Born in Warsaw, came to Paris in 1903, changed name from Markus to Marcoussis, naturalized French. Died in Cusset (Dept. Allier) LINKS La Table 1882 Robert Moore, mathematician. 1863 Leo Baekeland Belgian chemist (Bakelite) 1852 Antonio Mancini, Italian artist who died on 28 December 1930.
1842 Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of US Civil War (d 1959) 1840 Claude Monet, French painter who died on 05 December 1926. MORE ON MONET AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to many images. 1833 William Trost Richards, US painter who died on 08 November 1905. MORE ON RICHARDS AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 1829 Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten, Dutch artist who died on 12 July 1904.
1797 Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist. LYELL ONLINE: The Student's Elements of Geology (1870) Travels in North America, Canada, and Nova Scotia: With Geological Observations: volume I _ volume II (1855) [page images] 1779 Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager Denmark, poet (National Poet 1849) 1776 Henri Dutrochet discovered and named process of osmosis 1765 Robert Fulton, US inventor who built the first commercial steamboat. He died on 24 February 1815. 1650 William III, King of England (1689-1702). |