On this day 14th November

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Some notable facts about this date, for more, visit http://www.onthisday.com

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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