Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 14
This is a list of selected November 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Artist's impression of 90377 Sedna (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech) -
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The ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1228 – Frederick of Isenberg was executed for the murder of his cousin Engelbert of Berg, the Archbishop of Cologne. | Need to verify date |
| 1817 – Bolívar's War: Colombian seamstress Policarpa Salavarrieta was executed in Bogotá for working as a spy for the revolutionary forces in New Granada. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1889 – New York World reporter Nellie Bly embarked on her successful attempt to travel Around the World in Eighty Days, eventually completing her journey in only 72 days.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam engaged at the Battle of Ia Drang in Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam.
- 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object 90377 Sedna.
November 14: World Diabetes Day; Children's Day in India; Day of the Colombian Woman in Colombia
- 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship, flying from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia, US.
- 1940 – Second World War: Coventry Cathedral (ruins pictured) and much of the city centre of Coventry, England, were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.
- 1971 – NASA's Mariner 9 reached Mars, en route to becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
- 1984 – Cesar Climaco, mayor of Zamboanga City, the Philippines, was assassinated.
- 1990 – Germany and Poland signed the German–Polish Border Treaty, confirming their border at the Oder-Neisse line, which was originally defined by the Potsdam Agreement in 1945.