November 14 birthdays & history

Famous people born on November 14

• 1889Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India
• 1840Claude Monet, French painter
• 1907Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter
• 1972Josh Duhamel, American model and actor
• 1891Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1765Robert Fulton, American engineer, early steamboat pioneer
• 1979Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French model and actress
• 1993Samuel Umtiti, French footballer
• 1719Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor
• 1985Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer

What happened on November 14

• 1680German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
• 1889Pioneering 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.
• 1914The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.
• 1918The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution.
• 1920Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, is played for the first time at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki.
• 1921The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.
• 1922The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
• 1967American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
• 1969Apollo 12 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, later becoming the second crewed flight to land on the Moon.
• 1990Music producer Frank Farian admitted that the German R&B duo Milli Vanilli did not sing the vocals on their album Girl You Know It's True.
• 2003Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object Sedna.
• 2010Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the youngest Formula One champion.

Also observed on November 14

• Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment (Guinea-Bissau)
• Children's Day (India), celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru
• Day of the Colombian Woman (Colombia)
• World Diabetes Day (International)
• Dobruja Day (Romania)