Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 14

November 14: Children's Day in India.

• 1228 - Frederick of Isenberg was executed for the murder of his cousin Engelbert of Berg, the Archbishop of Cologne.

• 1889 - Nellie Bly, reporter for the New York World, departed on her successful attempt to travel Around the World in Eighty Days.

• 1940 - World War II: Coventry Cathedral (ruins pictured) and much of the city centre of Coventry, England were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.

• 1971 - Mariner 9 reached Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

• 1990 - Germany and Poland signed a treaty confirming their border at the Oder-Neisse line.

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• October 31
• November 1
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