November 14th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Empire.
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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 seventy-two days.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme ends.
1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
1921 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
1922 – The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
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.
1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.
1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
1971 – Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria.
1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
2010 – Germany's Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula One's Drivers Championship to become the sport's youngest champion.
2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.

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1849 TORONTO THE CAPITAL OF CANADA
Toronto Ontario - Toronto, Upper Canada becomes the new seat of the Union government; after a Tory mob had burned the Montreal Parliament buildings.

1606
Port Royal, Nova Scotia -
Marc Lescarbot c1570-1642 writes and produces North America's first European drama, Neptune's Theatre, staged in canoes outside the fort, complete with verses in French, Gascon and Micmac. The play is a 'jovial spectacle' where King Neptune arrives in a floating chariot drawn by six tritons, to the sound of trumpets and cannons, to greet Samuel de Champlain, as he returns to Port-Royal with Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, the lieutenant-governor of Acadia.


In Other Events...


1994 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Bourque elected the 39th Mayor of Montreal.
1992 Strathroy Ontario - Greg Curnoe 1936-1992 dies after cycling collision with pickup truck near London, while riding his Mariposa bicycle with the London Centennial Wheelers cycling club; artist known for bicycle paintings, and mixed-media and print collage works; helped found the Nihilist Spasm noise band in 1965, and the Forest City artist-run gallery in 1973; 1981 had a major retrospective at the National Gallery; major works include Kamekaze (1967), View of Victoria Hospital (1969-1971), Mariposa T.T. (1978-79) and Organic Pigments (1987).
1991 Toronto Ontario - Ontario sells SkyDome to consortium of 8 companies for $280 million in cash and tax breaks.
1989 Montreal Quebec - CP Rail starts cabooseless train operations; CN Rail follows on Feb. 1, 1990.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Commons ends 86-year-old Crowsnest Pass grain freight rates; new rates raise costs for farmers but put $3.7 billion into rail upgrade.
1982 Vancouver BC - Workers raise the inflatable roof of Vancouver's BC Place, completing Canada's first domed stadium. The stadium opens the following June.
1982 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau Mayor of Montreal for the 8th time.
1981 Montreal Quebec - VIA rail announces cuts to nearly 20% of its services.
1975 Montreal Quebec - Quebec government creates the Régie Olympique; takes full control of finance and construction of main stadium for 1976 Summer Olympics; the Big O.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canada begins production of Olympic coins to help pay for the 1976 Summer Olympics awarded to Montreal.
1972 Lahr Germany - Canadian Armed Forces installs SAMSON (Strategic Automatic Message Switching Operation Network), for computer-controlled message handling to bases in Europe.
1971 Toronto Ontario- University of Western Ontario Mustangs, under new coach Frank Cosentino, a former quarterback, win the first of four Canadian university titles in the 1970s, in a 15-14 squeaker over Alberta that saw quarterback Joe Fabiani's 97-yard bomb to Terry Harvey; Western coach Johnny Metras retired after 30-year reign.
1969 Sudbury Ontario - 16,000 Inco employees end 128-day strike.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Organizers cancel annual Santa Claus parade in Montreal due to increased violence in city, and a civic law against demonstrations.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Ontario announces plans to consolidate 1,500 school boards into 100 county-size boards, by Jan 1,1969.
1966 Montreal Quebec - 5,200 Air Canada machinists and auxiliary workers start two-week strike; first in 29-year history.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings set a National Hockey League record as he scored his 627th career goal in a game against Montreal.
1962 Quebec - Jean Lesage re-elected Liberal Premier of Quebec; under the slogan 'Maîtres chez nous' - 'Masters in our Own House', coined by Natural Resources Minister René Lévesque.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - National Research Council announces formation of Medical Research Council.
1959 Toronto Ontario - University of Western Ontario Mustangs beat British Columbia 34-7 in the East-West championship before 2,500 people at Varsity Stadium; Western outrushes British Columbia 461 yards to 202, to take their first Canadian university football title.
1955 Toronto Ontario - 2,000 De Havilland Aircraft workers in Toronto end four-month strike.
1953 Ottawa Ontario - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the Senate and House of Commons.
1950 Toronto Ontario - Junior farmer Ricky Sharpe wins the world wheat championship at the Royal Winter Fair; 13 year old from Munson, Alberta, a member of the Drumheller Junior Grain Club; his 18 lb sample of Marquis wheat was judged the finest.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Future Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent urges keeping the Red Ensign in a flag debate.
1922 Calgary Alberta - Robert Chambers 'Bob' Edwards dies; editor and publisher of the Calgary Eye Opener born at Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 12, 1864. Edwards went into the newspaper business in the south of France, publishing an English-language newspaper on the Riviera; 1894 emigrated to Canada; 1897 started the weekly Free Lance in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, the first newspaper between Edmonton and Calgary; 1902 moved to High River and started the Eye Opener, which he soon moved to Calgary, where he was known for his wit and his ability to skewer the famous and pompous; 1909 moved to Toronto, Montreal, Port Arthur, and Winnipeg, returning to Calgary in 1911; 1916 a recovered alcoholic, supported prohibition in the referendum; 1921 elected to the Alberta legislature as an Independent.
1914 Hamilton Ontario - Billy Mallett of the Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in an Ontario Rugby Football Union game.
1914 New York City - Cobourg actress Marie Dressler stars in a film version of her stage show, Tillie's Punctured Romance, with Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand; six-reel silent film is Canadian Mack Sennett's first feature-length picture. On the same day, Chaplin left Sennett's Keystone company to sign with the Essanay company at $1,250 a week.
1909 Atlantic Ocean - Joshua Slocum 1844-1909 dies at sea on or after this date; ship's captain, explorer, author, first man to sail solo around the world, born at Wilmot Township, Nova Scotia Feb. 20, 1844; brought up at Westport, Brier Island. Slocum went to sea at 16, and served in merchant ships to Europe and the Far East; wrote Voyage of the Liberdade (1890), Voyage of the Destroyer (1894) and Sailing Alone Around the World (1900), about his epic 75,000 km voyage around the globe in a 13 ton oyster sloop, the Spray, from 1895 to 1898.
1879 Montreal Quebec - Formation of the sixth Cavalry Regiment, later the 15th Armored Regiment, Duke of Connaught's Hussars, in Montreal.
1858 Montreal Quebec - Monument set up in Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery to commemorate the Patriotes of 1837-38.
1838 Prescott Ontario - Col Henry Dundas arrives with four companies of the 83rd Regiment, two eighteen-pounders and a howitzer, to attack Republican Colonel Nils von Schoultz and his 200 Canadian exiles and US sympathizers holed up in a 6-storey stone windmill; the rebels surrender on the 16th.
1835 Saint John, New Brunswick - Opening of insane asylum at Saint John; Canada's first insane asylum.
1778 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - George Washington writes Henry Laurens, president of the Continental Congress, that his French ally, the Marquis de Lafayette, wants to undertake a campaign against the British in Canada, to regain New France.
1736 Anticosti Island, Quebec - Father Emmanuel Crespel shipwrecked on Anticosti Island.


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