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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Kirch's Discovery: Great Comet of 1680 (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)

10 min • 14 november 2024

A Daily Dose of History (14 Nov 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
  • James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
  • Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.
  • Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
  • Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
  • Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
  • The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.
  • The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution.
  • The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.
  • The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
  • The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
  • World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
  • World War II: German troops, aided by local auxiliaries, murder nine thousand residents of the Słonim Ghetto in a single day.

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