Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 14

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  Apollo 12 launched from the Kennedy Space Center
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  Policarpa Salavarrieta
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  The ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral
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  The ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral
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  Artist's impression of Sedna
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  Milli Vanilli with NARAS president C. Michael Greene (center)
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  Great Comet of 1680 over Rotterdam

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Children's Day in India	cleanup required
Day of the Colombian Woman in Colombia;	refimprove
1228 – Frederick of Isenberg was executed for the murder of his cousin Engelbert of Berg, the Archbishop of Cologne.	no footnotes
1770 – Scottish travel writer James Bruce discovered what he believed to be the source of the Nile.	Too much uncited
1812 – French invasion of Russia: The French defeat at the Battle of Smoliani forced them to abandon the "Dwina Line", their northern flank in Russia.	this particular fact is not cited
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
1921 – The Communist Party of Spain was founded in Madrid from the merger of two prior organizations	unreferenced section
1940 – Second World War: The cathedral and much of the city centre of Coventry, England, were destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.	Referencing issues
1952 – Al Martino's song "Here in My Heart" became the first number one on the UK Singles Chart.	Refimprove section
1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam engaged at the Battle of Ia Drang.	Too much unreferenced
1975 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain agreed to withdraw its presence from the territory of Spanish Sahara.	Too many quotes
1984 – Cesar Climaco, mayor of Zamboanga City, the Philippines, was assassinated by an unknown gunman.	unreferenced section
1971 – NASA's Mariner 9 reached Mars, en route to becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.	unreferenced section
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.	Mostly a stub, too much uncited, date not clearly cited
2015 – A train derailed in Eckwersheim, France, while performing trials on the high-speed rail line LGV Est.	"Update needed" orange banner
Hugh Faringdon |d|1539|	Deathday not cited
Leopold Mozart |b|1719|	Birthday not cited, too much uncited

Eligible

• 1851 – Moby-Dick, an epic novel by American writer Herman Melville, was first published in the United States.
• 1941 – World War II: German troops, aided by local auxiliaries, murdered nine thousand residents of the Słonim Ghetto in a single day.
• 1941 – Second World War: After suffering torpedo damage the previous day, the British aircraft carrier Template:HMS sank as she was being towed to Gibraltar for repairs.
• 1960 – Ruby Bridges and the McDonogh Three became the first black children to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana as part of the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
• 1969 – Apollo 12 (pictured) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, later becoming the second crewed flight to land on the Moon.
• 1990 – Music 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.
• 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Croatian naval commandos attacked the Yugoslav patrol boat Mukos, starting the Battle of the Dalmatian Channels.
• 1992 – In poor conditions caused by Cyclone Forrest, Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashed near Nha Trang, killing 30 people.
• 1995 – As a result of budget conflicts between President Bill Clinton and the United States Congress led by Newt Gingrich, the federal government was forced to shut down non-essential services.
• 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object Sedna.

• Born/died this day: | William Ames |d|1633| Xavier Bichat |b|1771| Mikayel Nalbandian |b|1829| John Abercrombie |d|1844| Franz Müller |d|1864| John Lumsden |b|1869| Addie Viola Smith |b|1893| Harry Daley|b|1901| Andrew Inglis Clark |d|1907| Guangxu Emperor |d|1908| Boutros Boutros-Ghali |b|1922| Jerry Mateparae |b|1954| Bernard Hinault |b|1954| Valerie Jarrett |b|1956| Thinzar Shunlei Yi |b|1991| Ernst Happel |d|1992| A. Thomas Bradbury |d|1992|Ahmed Jabari |d|2012|

November 14: World Diabetes Day; Dobruja Day in Romania Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
• 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on Template:USS in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
• 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
• 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932, chartered by the Marshall University football team, crashed into a hill near Ceredo, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board.
• 2010 – Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the youngest Formula One champion.