What happened on 14 November?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1889 Born: Jawaharlal Nehru First Prime Minister of independent India; architect of its democracy.
2. 1913 Proust's In Search of Lost Time Seven-volume French novel of memory, society, and time.
3. 1900 Born: Aaron Copland American composer; Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man.
4. 1883 Stevenson's Treasure Island Adventure novel — defining pirate fiction.
5. 1940 The Coventry Blitz Five hundred bombers work over Coventry for eleven hours, gutting the medieval cathedral and the city's centre and killing 568 people — the concentrated raid that gives the Germans
6. 1948 Born: Charles III Succeeded his mother in 2022; the oldest person ever to become British monarch.
7. 1920 Wrangel's fleet evacuates Crimea The last White army in European Russia sails from Crimea in 126 ships — 146,000 soldiers and civilians bound for Constantinople and a scattered emigration. The Russian Civil War is
8. 1965 Battle of Ia Drang The first major engagement between the US Army and the North Vietnamese Army, in the Central Highlands.