14th November anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • "Birth of Joseph R. McCarthy, American politician who claimed that the US Government had been infiltrated by communists."
  • 1948
  • "Birth of Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne ."
• event
  • 1582
  • Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
  • 1698
  • Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier (but see 1703)
  • 1918
  • Czechoslovakia became a republic .
  • 1922
  • Great Britain
  • BBC begins Broadcasts
  • 1927
  • Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party
  • 1952
  • First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express
  • 1969
  • "NASA launched Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the Moon"
  • 1983
  • British Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine announced that the first American Cruise missiles had arrived at Greenham Common airbase.
  • 1994
  • The first fare-paying passengers travelled through the Channel Tunnel
  • 2007
  • Great Britain
  • First rail service direct from London St Pancras to Paris (replacing that from Waterloo)
• Death
  • 1908
  • "Death of Guangxu (also spelt Kuang-hsü), Emperor of China ."