TODAY IN HISTORY
November 14, 2000 - 0:0
Tuesday, November 14 1533 Spanish forces under Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca capital of Cuzco.
1719 Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer and father of Wolfgang Amadeus, born.
1832 The first streetcar in America made its preview appearance in New York. The John Mason carried public officials from Prince Street to 14th, 12 days before regular public services began.
1881 The trial of Charles Guiteau began in the United States for the murder of President James Garfield.
Guiteau was convicted and hanged.
1863 Leo Baekeland, Belgian-born chemist who founded the plastics industry with his invention of Bakelite, born.
1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, statesman and first prime minister of independent India from 1947 to 1964, born.
He committed India to a policy of nonalignment.
1889 U.S. journalist Nellie Bly left New York to try to beat the fictional record of Phileas Fogg in "Around the World in Eighty Days". She did it in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, 14 seconds.
1910 Captain Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss biplane, made the first takeoff from the deck of a ship. He took off from the light cruiser Birmingham, anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1918 Tomas Masaryk was elected first president of Czechoslovakia.
1922 Boutros Boutros Ghali was born. Egyptian deputy foreign minister for 14 years, he was UN secretary general from January 1992 until December 1996.
1940 The English city of Coventry was bombed by German aircraft in a raid in which more than 1,000 were killed.
1963 A new island called Surtsey was created off the Icelandic coast by an undersea volcanic eruption.
1969 The team which was to make the second moon landing, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean, took off aboard Apollo 12 from Cape Kennedy.
1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter froze Iranian government assets held in American banks.
1979 An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale struck a string of villages in Khorasan Province in eastern Iran, killing at least 385 people.
1981 Senegal and Gambia formed a confederation known as Senegambia, headed by the President of Senegal, Abdou Diouf.
1991 Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia made a triumphal return home after 13 years in exile.
1993 Puerto Rico's pro-statehood Governor Pedro Rossello conceded narrow defeat in the island's plebiscite on whether to become the 51st American state.
1994 The first fare-paying passengers on the new rail service traveled through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France.
1998 U.S. President Bill Clinton halted a planned bombing attack on Iraq with only one hour to spare when Baghdad offered to resume UN arms inspections.
1999 UN sanctions against Afghanistan went into force, imposed for Kabul's failure to hand over Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, alleged by Washington to have masterminded bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
1719 Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer and father of Wolfgang Amadeus, born.
1832 The first streetcar in America made its preview appearance in New York. The John Mason carried public officials from Prince Street to 14th, 12 days before regular public services began.
1881 The trial of Charles Guiteau began in the United States for the murder of President James Garfield.
Guiteau was convicted and hanged.
1863 Leo Baekeland, Belgian-born chemist who founded the plastics industry with his invention of Bakelite, born.
1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, statesman and first prime minister of independent India from 1947 to 1964, born.
He committed India to a policy of nonalignment.
1889 U.S. journalist Nellie Bly left New York to try to beat the fictional record of Phileas Fogg in "Around the World in Eighty Days". She did it in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, 14 seconds.
1910 Captain Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss biplane, made the first takeoff from the deck of a ship. He took off from the light cruiser Birmingham, anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1918 Tomas Masaryk was elected first president of Czechoslovakia.
1922 Boutros Boutros Ghali was born. Egyptian deputy foreign minister for 14 years, he was UN secretary general from January 1992 until December 1996.
1940 The English city of Coventry was bombed by German aircraft in a raid in which more than 1,000 were killed.
1963 A new island called Surtsey was created off the Icelandic coast by an undersea volcanic eruption.
1969 The team which was to make the second moon landing, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean, took off aboard Apollo 12 from Cape Kennedy.
1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter froze Iranian government assets held in American banks.
1979 An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale struck a string of villages in Khorasan Province in eastern Iran, killing at least 385 people.
1981 Senegal and Gambia formed a confederation known as Senegambia, headed by the President of Senegal, Abdou Diouf.
1991 Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia made a triumphal return home after 13 years in exile.
1993 Puerto Rico's pro-statehood Governor Pedro Rossello conceded narrow defeat in the island's plebiscite on whether to become the 51st American state.
1994 The first fare-paying passengers on the new rail service traveled through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France.
1998 U.S. President Bill Clinton halted a planned bombing attack on Iraq with only one hour to spare when Baghdad offered to resume UN arms inspections.
1999 UN sanctions against Afghanistan went into force, imposed for Kabul's failure to hand over Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, alleged by Washington to have masterminded bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.