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On November 14, -332: Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.

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Featured moment · -332

Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.

Alexander III of Macedon, most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and spent most of his reign conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.

People

Born on November 14

Xiyeon 2000– South Korean actress (born 2000)
Sofia Kenin 1998– American tennis player (born 1998)
DeVonta Smith 1998– American football player (born 1998)
Noussair Mazraoui 1997– Moroccan footballer (born 1997)
Christopher Nkunku 1997– French footballer (born 1997)
Axel Tuanzebe 1997– Congolese footballer (born 1997)
Borna Ćorić 1996– Croatian tennis player (born 1996)
Dawson Knox 1996– American football player (born 1996)
Francisco Lindor 1993– Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1993)
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Shūhei Nomura 1993– Japanese actor (born 1993)
Samuel Umtiti 1993– French footballer (born 1993)
Miriam Brouwer 1991– Canadian cyclist (born 1991)
Taylor Hall 1991– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Graham Patrick Martin 1991– American actor
Thinzar Shunlei Yi 1991– Burmese human rights activist (born 1991)
Roman Bürki 1990– Swiss footballer (born 1990)
Jessica Jacobs 1990– Australian actress and singer
Vlad Chiricheș 1989– Romanian footballer (born 1989)

People

Died on November 14

Vic Flick English guitarist (1937–2024)
Peter Sinfield English poet and songwriter (1943–2024)
Peter Florjancic Slovenian ski jumper (1919–2020)
Des O'Connor English comedian, singer and television presenter (1932–2020)
Gwen Ifill Panamanian-American journalist, television newscaster, and author (1955–2016)
Nick Bockwinkel American wrestler (1934–2015)
K. S. Gopalakrishnan Indian screenwriter and director
Warren Mitchell English actor (1926–2015)
Eugene Dynkin Russian mathematician (1924–2014)
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Glen A. Larson American television producer and writer (1937–2014)
Morteza Pashaei Iranian singer (1984–2014)
Sudhir Bhat Indian producer and manager (born 1951)
Hari Krishna Devsare Indian journalist and author (born 1938)
Bennett Masinga South African soccer player (1965–2013)
Alexandro Alves do Nascimento Brazilian footballer (1974–2012)
Brian Davies Australia international rugby league footballer
Martin Fay Irish musician (1936–2012)
Ahmed Jabari Palestinian militant and senior leader of Hamas (1960–2012)

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Every November 14 on record

  1. -332 Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.

    King of Macedon from 336 to 323 BC

    Alexander III of Macedon, most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and spent most of his reign conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.

  2. 1680 German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.

    German astronomer (1639–1710)

    Gottfried Kirch was a German astronomer and the first "Astronomer Royal" in Berlin and, as such, director of the nascent Berlin Observatory.

  3. 1770 James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.

    Scottish traveller (1730–1794)

    James Bruce of Kinnaird was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the first European to trace and document the course of the Nile by following it upstream from Egypt through Sudan to its origins in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.

  4. 1812 Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.

    1803–1815 series of wars led by Napoleon

    The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the First Consul followed by the First French Empire (1804–1815) under the Emperor of the French, Napoleon I. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and produced a period of French domination over Continental Europe. The wars are categorised as seven conflicts, five named after the coalitions that fought Napoleon, plus two named for their respective theatres: the War of the Third Coalition, War of the Fourth Coalition, War of the Fifth Coalition, War of the Sixth Coalition, War of the Seventh Coalition, the Peninsular War, and the French invasion of Russia.

  5. 1851 Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.

    1851 novel by Herman Melville

    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891.

  6. 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.
  7. 1910 Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
  8. 1914 The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.
  9. 1918 The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution.
  10. 1920 Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, is played for the first time at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki.
  11. 1921 The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.
  12. 1922 The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
  13. 1938 The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
  14. 1940 World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
  15. 1941 World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
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  1. 1941 World War II: German troops, aided by local auxiliaries, murder nine thousand residents of the Słonim Ghetto in a single day.
  2. 1952 The New Musical Express publishes the first regular UK Singles Chart.
  3. 1957 The "Apalachin meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
  4. 1960 Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
  5. 1965 Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins. This is the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
  6. 1967 The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
  7. 1967 American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
  8. 1969 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
  9. 1970 Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
  10. 1970 Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
  11. 1971 Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
  12. 1973 In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
  13. 1973 The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
  14. 1975 With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.
  15. 1977 During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam Dalyell poses what would become known as the West Lothian question, referring to issues related to devolution in the United Kingdom.

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