Articles by May, 2020

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 14 November.

1. Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
2. Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter SF Bay
3. 1st streetcar-horsedrawn vehicle called John Mason debuts in NYC
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville published
5. Charles J Guiteau went on trial for Pres Garfield's assassination
6. NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
7. Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
8. 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship
9. BBC began domestic radio service
10. FDR proclaimed Philippine Is a free commonwealth
11. During WW II German planes destroyed most of Coventry England
12. Bears' Sid Luckman throws 7 TD passes (NFL record)
13. Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
14. Apollo 12 launched
15. Dow Jones closes above 1 000 for 1st time (1003.16)
16. Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner Capt Mark Phillips
17. Egypt Pres Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
18. 2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 returns to Earth
19. Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
20. Sec & Exch Comm impose a record $100 million penalty against Boesky

These famous people were born on 14 November.

1. 1708 - William Pitt the Elder, (Whig), British PM (1756-61, 1766-68)
2. 1765 - Robert Fulton, built 1st coml steamboat
3. 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
4. 1797 - Sir Charles Lyell, geologist
5. 1840 - Claude Monet, French Impressionist
6. 1861 - Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, educator
7. 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1947-64)
8. 1896 - Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady
9. 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
10. 1904 - Marya Mannes, writer
11. 1906 - Louise Brooks, silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box)
12. 1908 - Harrison E. Salisbury, journalist, writer
13. 1910 - Rosemary DeCamp, in Az
14. 1912 - Barbara Hutton
15. 1919 - Veronica Lake
16. 1921 - Brian Keith, Actor
17. 1928 - Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano
18. 1929 - McLean Stevenson, Actor (TV's M*A*S*H)
19. 1930 - Edward H. White II, astronaut (Gemini 4)
20. 1933 - Fred Haise, astronaut (Apollo 13)
21. 1935 - Hussein I, king of Jordan (1953-, )
22. 1935 - Don Stewart
23. 1948 - Prince Charles, of Britain