On this day 14th November
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Facts
1680 Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)
1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light
1922 BBC begins daily radio broadcasts from the 2LO transmitter at Marconi House
Deaths
1263 Alexander Nevsky, [Aleksandr], Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir dies at 43
1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (differential and integral calculus), dies at 70
1915 Booker T. Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala
1960 Walter Catlett, American actor (Climax, Front Page, Tale of 2 Cities), dies of a stroke at 71
1990 Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87
2015 Warren Mitchell, English actor (Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part), dies at 89
Born on this day
1954 Condoleezza Rice, 1st female African-American U.S. Secretary of State (2005-09), born in Birmingham, Alabama
Walter Catlett
Warren Mitchell
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