Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 14

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 * 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham (CL-2) in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
 * 1941 – Second World War: After suffering torpedo damage the previous day, the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) sank as she was being towed to Gibraltar for repairs.
 * 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.
 * 1975 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain agreed to withdraw its presence from the territory of Spanish Sahara.
 * 1969 – Apollo 12 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 (artist's impression pictured).
 * 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.


 * Born/died this day: | Hugh Faringdon |d|1539| Leopold Mozart |b|1719| Xavier Bichat |b|1771| Mikayel Nalbandian |b|1829| Claude Monet |b|1840|  Franz Müller |d|1864| John Lumsden |b|1869| Andrew Inglis Clark |d|1907|  Bernard Hinault |b|1954|   A. Thomas Bradbury |d|1992|  Neil Heywood |d|2011| Ahmed Jabari |d|2012

November 14: World Diabetes Day; Dobruja Day in Romania


 * 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680 (pictured), the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
 * 1941 – World War II: German troops, aided by local auxiliaries, murdered nine thousand residents of the Słonim Ghetto in a single day.
 * 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.
 * 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Croatian naval commandos attacked the Yugoslav patrol boat Mukos, starting the Battle of the Dalmatian Channels.
 * 2015 – A train derailed in Eckwersheim, France, while performing trials on the high-speed rail line LGV Est.