Historical Events -  November 14

1681,  : The East India Company declared a separate princely state of Bengal.

1770 : James Bruce discovered the source of the Nile.

1922 : British Broadcasting Company launched radio service in the United Kingdom.

1969 : Establishment of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.

1973 : Princess Anne of Britain married a common citizen. Earlier this had not happened in the royal family.

1975 : Spain left Western Sahara.

1991 : German Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl was nominated for the 1990 Jawaharlal Nehru International Reconciliation Award.

2002 : Chinese President Jiang Zemin resigned from his post.

2006 : Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan agreed to create anti-terrorism mechanisms in New Delhi.

2008 : The first G-20 economic summit opened in Washington, D.C.

2013  Sachin Tendulkar started playing the last (200th) Test of his career. The match against the West Indies was played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

 

Famous Birthdays   – November 14  

1650: King William III of England.

1719: Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, and violinist.

1765: Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamship.

1840: Oscar-Claude Monet, a French painter.

1863: Leo Hendrik Arthur Backland, American chemist.

1889: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.

1891: Birbal Sahni, an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent.

1922: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations.

1935: King Hussein of Jordan.

1943: Aditya Vikram Birla, an Indian industrialist.

1948: Sindhutai Sapkal, an Indian social worker, and social activist.

1971: Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer.

1971: Vikas Khanna, Indian chef, and writer.

1975: Gary Vaynerchuk, a Belarusian-American entrepreneur, author, speaker, and Internet personality.

Death Anniversaries  – November 14

1831: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher and an important figure in German idealism.

1915: Booker T. Washington, a social worker, writer, orator, and educator working for the African-American.

1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson, an American businessman, and engineer.

1967: C. K. Naidu, Indian cricketer.

1971: Narayan Hari Apte, novelist and film writer.

1977: Abhay Charanarvind Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founders of Hare Krishna sect.

1990: Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge, an English journalist, and satirist.

1993: Dr. Manibhai Bhimbhai Desai, an Indian Freedom Fighter.

2015: K. S. Gopalakrishnan, an Indian screenwriter, director, producer, and lyricist.

2016: Gwendolyn L. Ifill, an American journalist, television newscaster, and author.