THIS DAY IN #HISTORY 1411

This day in #history 1411

November 14th

1524 – Francisco Pizarro begins his 1st great
expedition, near Colombia

1881 – Charles J Guiteau went on trial
for assassination of President Garfield

1906 – President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama

1908 – Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory
of light

1966 – Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3
for heavyweight title

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1891 – Frederick Banting , Canadian physician ,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(d . 1941 )

1954 – Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of
State

FAMOUS DEATHS

563 – Justinian I (The Great ), Byzantinian Emperor
(527 -563 ) , dies at 82. Corpus Juris Civilis , civil
law code, written during reign .

784 – Alberik I, bishop of Utrecht, dies

976 – T’ ai
tsu, emperor of China / founder of Sung -dynasty , dies

1915 – Booker T . Washington , educator/ organizier , dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala

2012 – Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian political activist ,
killed by an airstrike at 53

Famous Wedding

1996 – King of Pop Michael Jackson ( 38) weds
Debbie Rowe ( 38) in Sydney , Australia