Daily Calendar – November 14

The 318th day of the year; 47 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

The Holy Unmercenary Healers and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian of Asia, and their mother, the Venerable Theodotia (3rd century); the Hieromartyrs John (Bishop) and James (Priest), who suffered martyrdom in Persia (345); the Martyrs Cyriaena and Juliana (305–311); the Martyr Hermenegild, Prince of the Goths (586); and the Martyrs Caesarius, Dasas, Sabas, Sabinianus, Agrippas, Adrian, Thomas the Infant, and their companions, who suffered martyrdom in Damascus (7th century).

Born:

1765 – Robert Fulton, American inventor; died in 1815.

1771 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist, physiologist, and physician; died in 1802.

1797 – Charles Lyell, English naturalist; died in 1875. 1891 – Frederick Grant Banting, Canadian physiologist and Nobel laureate; died in 1941.

1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's author; died in 2002.

1907 – Mariam Davitashvili, theater actress; died in 1975.

1901 – Shalva Nakhutsrishvili, botanist; died in 1980.

1922 – Murman Lebanidze, prominent poet; died in 2002.

Deaths:

1716 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German idealist philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and historian.

1830 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher.

1939 – Aleksandre Arsenishvili, critic and translator.

1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer and pianist.

Events:

1716 – Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani returned to his homeland following his travels in Europe. 1900 – The French Senate authorized women to practice law.

1908 – Albert Einstein published his quantum theory of light propagation.

1922 – The BBC’s first broadcast aired.

1936 – The Hydrometeorological Service was established in the USSR.

1960 – OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) was founded.

1965 – The U.S. government sent 90,000 troops to Vietnam.

1968 – The first lung transplant operation in Europe was performed.

1969 – The American spacecraft Apollo 12, carrying three astronauts, landed on the surface of the Moon.

1994 – Rail service between Paris and London via the Channel Tunnel was inaugurated.

Notable Days:

World Diabetes Day.

World Quality Day.