Today in History in 1979 Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the US in response to the hostage crisis.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on an island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, which he names "Santa Cruz".

1495 - Battle of Aguere: Forces of the Kingdom of Castile defeat a force of Guanches, the native people of the Canary Islands.

1501 - Both aged 15, Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Tudor marry.

1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, then part of the Inca Empire.

1633 - Thirty Years' War: Swedish troops take over Regensburg, Bavaria.

1770 - James Bruce discovers what he believes is the source of the Nile.

1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln supports General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

1889 – Nellie Bly begins her 72-day journey around the world.

1894 – Tsar Nicholas II marries Alexandra Fyodorovna.

1901 - Austrian doctor Karl Landsteiner announces the discovery of the blood groups A, B and O.

1909 - French passenger ship La Seyne sinks after a collision with a British steamer, killing 101 people.

1910 - Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, from the makeshift deck of the USS Birmingham.

1916 – Billy Hughes becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time.

1916 – World War II: The First Battle of the Somme ends.

1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a Republic.

1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.

1922 - The BBC begins its radio service.

1940 - World War II: The city of Coventry in England is almost completely destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing.

1941 - World War II: The HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier sinks from torpedo damage from German submarine U-81 the previous day.

1946 - Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1952 - The UK Singles Chart is published by the New Musical Express.

1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser takes over power in Egypt.

1962 - Haile Selassie declares Eritrea to be part of Ethiopia.

1963 – The island of Surtsey is formed by a volcanic eruption off the south coast of Iceland.

1965 - Vietnam War: The Battle of La Drong begins.

1966 - Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) defends his heavyweight boxing title against Cleveland Williams.

1967 - The Congress of Colombia declares this date as the Day of the Colombian Woman.

1967 - American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems.

1969 - NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the Moon. Despite two lightning strikes, the launch is carried out successfully.

1970 - Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75 people.

1971 - Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is officially enthroned.

1971 - Mariner 9 enters into orbit around Mars.

1973 - Anne, Princess Royal marries Captain Mark Phillips.

1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.

1979 - Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the US in response to the hostage crisis.

1982 – Lech Walesa is released from detention.

1990 – Germany and Poland agree to the Oder-Neisse Line forming their boundary.

1991 – Norodom Sihanouk returns to Cambodia after 13 years of exile.

1995 - The United States Government temporarily closes over disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over the federal budget.

1999 - Leonid Kuchma is re-elected President of Ukraine.

2001 - War in Afghanistan: The Northern Alliance takes over Kabul.

2003 – One of the Solar System's most distant objects, 90377 Sedna, is discovered.

2010 – Sebastian Vettel becomes, to date, the youngest Formula One World Champion.

2012 - Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas get worse.

2015 - A French TGV train crashes into a river in the Alsace region of France, killing 10 people. There is no link to the previous night's attacks in Paris.

2021 - An attack on a hospital in Liverpool, England leaves the attacker dead and one other person injured.