How good are you when it comes to history? Well, if you happen to keep up with historical movies and books, then you sure know a few things that happened in the past.
What do you know about the events that happened in history, on November 14? Below are some of them.
- 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau’s trial began for the assassination of U.S. President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
- 1917 – Park Chung-hee, the president of Korea, was born.
- 1922 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began domestic radio service.
- 1935 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved.
- 1940 – German warplanes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked, during World War II.
- 1954 – A state of emergency was declared after Egyptian President Naguib resigned.
- 1956 – The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.
- 1973 – Canada began production of Olympic coins.
- 1979 – U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
- 1980 – The U.S. performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1983 – The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common airbase, amid protests.
- 1988 – Israeli President Chaim Herzog formally asked Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to form a new government.
- 1989 – The U.S. Navy ordered an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down in the wake of a recent string of serious accidents.
- 1990 – Great Britain performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1994 – U.S. experts visited North Korea’s main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.
- 1995 – The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums, while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.
- 2002 – The United States House of Representatives voted not to create an independent commission to investigate the 9/11 attacks.
- 2012 – The game Candy Crush Saga was released as a mobile app for smartphones.
- 2018 – UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet approves draft plan for country’s exit from the European Union.
- 2020 – Record global daily total of 660,905 COVID-19 cases were declared to the WHO.