History for November 14

History for November 14 - On-This-Day.com
Claude Monet 1840 - French impressionist painter, Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 - Indian politician, Joseph McCarthy 1909 - Politician (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922 - Egyptian politician, P.J. O'Rourke 1947 - Political satirist, journalist, writer, Condoleezza Rice 1954 - U.S. Secretary of State


1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S.


1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.


1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.


1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.


1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.


1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.


1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.


1995 - The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.