This Day in History
Today: November 14, 2025
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Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.[1]
1680
German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.[2]
1770
James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.[3]
1812
Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.[4]
1851
Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.[5]
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 72 days.[6]
1910
Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1914
The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.[7]
1918
The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution.[8]
1920
Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, is played for the first time at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki.[9]
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