Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 14
November 14: Children's Day (India)
- 1228 - Frederick of Isenberg was executed for the murder of his cousin Engelbert of Berg, the Archbishop of Cologne.
- 1889 - Nellie Bly (pictured), reporter for the New York World, departed on her successful attempt to travel Around the World in Eighty Days.
- 1940 - Coventry Cathedral and much of the city centre of Coventry, England was destroyed in heavy Luftwaffe bombing.
- 1971 - Mariner 9 reached Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
- 1990 - Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming their border at the Oder-Neisse line.
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