In a November 14but in 1969, the Apollo 12 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (USA), in the second manned mission to reach the Moonand NASA astronaut Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad He becomes the third man to set foot on the lunar surface.
1851.- The novel ‘Moby Dick’, by Herman Melville, a classic of universal literature, is published in the United States.
1922.- The BBC inaugurates its first daily radio broadcasting service in London.
1952.- The British magazine New Musical Express publishes the first UK singles chart.
1975.- Spain, Morocco and Mauritania sign the Madrid Declaration, by which Spain transfers the administration of Western Sahara to a temporary tripartite administration.
1983.- The Spanish poet Rafael Alberti receives the Cervantes Prize.
1990.- Germany and Poland sign a treaty that recognizes the line of the Oder and Neisse rivers as the border between both countries.
1994.- The Eurostar rail service is inaugurated, which crosses the Channel Tunnel.
1996.- The Congress of Deputies approves the full integration of Spain into the NATO command structure.
2006.- The painting ‘Children of the Carretón’, by Francisco de Goya, is stolen during its transfer from the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio, United States) to the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
2018.- Astronomers discover a super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, about six light years from Earth, the second closest known planetary system to ours.
2020.- Egypt presents more than 100 sarcophagi about 2,300 years old found at the archaeological site of Saqqara, southwest of Cairo.
2022.- Archaeologists find next to the Irulegi castle (Navarra, Spain) a bronze hand with an inscription in the Basque language that includes the word “sorioneku”, interpreted as “good fortune”. The object is dated to the 1st century BC. c.
2023.- China inaugurates an internet network capable of transmitting data at 1.2 terabits per second, presented as the fastest in the world.
2024.- The port of Chancay is inaugurated, in northern Peru, built with Chinese participation and destined to become a strategic point of trade between Asia and South America.
1840.- Claude Monet, French impressionist painter.
1889.- Jawaharlal Nehru, former Prime Minister of India.
1907.- Pedro Arrupe, Spanish Jesuit priest.
1923.- Carlos Seco Serrano, Spanish professor and historian.
1926.- Juan Antonio Vallejo Nájera, Spanish psychiatrist.
1927.- Narciso Yepes, Spanish musician.
1935.- Hussein I, king of Jordan.
1936.- Josefina Molina, Spanish film and theater director.
.- Antonio Esteve Ródenas, ‘Antonio Gades’, Spanish dancer and choreographer.
1948.- Charles III, king of the United Kingdom.
1961.- Antonio González Flores, ‘Antonio Flores’, Spanish singer and composer.
1716.- Gottfried W. Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician.
1946.- Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer.
1968.- Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Spanish philologist and historian.
1992.- Gregorio Prieto, Spanish painter.
2001.- Charlotte Coleman, British actress.
2004.- Daniel Gil, Spanish graphic designer.
2006.- José María Jover, Spanish historian and academic.
