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Saturday, November 14, 1998
- Nobel Peace Prize-winner S. African Archbishop Desmond Tutu travels to Colorado to attend PeaceJam, which brings peace-prize winners together with teen-agers.
- Prince Charles 50th birthday party is held in London hosted by his companion, Camilla Parker Bowles.
- Cult deprogrammers and former cult members discuss new cult deprogramming techniques at a meeting to be held in Northbrook, Illinois.
- On Sunday, November 15, Tutu is scheduled to speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
- On Monday, November 16, John Glenn and fellow astronauts from 10-day Discovery space shuttle mission will be honored with a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan.
- On Tuesday, November 17, President Clinton is scheduled to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- On Wednesday, November 18, House Republicans will meet to choose leadership for the 106th Congress, including a replacement for outgoing Speaker Newt Gingrich. Rep. Bob Livingston, R-LA, is expected to get the nod.
- On Thursday, November 19, the House Judiciary Committee is to open impeachment hearings with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr scheduled to testify in a public session.
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- Singer Stephen Bishop is 47.
- Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is 75.
- Jordan's King Hussein is 63.
- Charles, the Prince of Wales, is 50.
- Former basketball player Jack Wayne Sikma is 43.
- Actor Don Stewart (“Guiding Light”) is 63.
- In 1770, Scottish explorer James Bruce discovered the source of the Blue Nile on Lake Tana in northwest Ethiopia.
- In 1840, the French artist Claude Monet, one of the creators of impressionism, was born.
- In 1910, Captain Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss biplane, made the first takeoff from the deck of a ship.
- In 1918, Tomas Masaryk was elected the first president of Czechoslovakia.
- In 1941, the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal was sunk in a German submarine attack off Gibraltar.
- In 1963, a new island was created off the Icelandic coast by an undersea volcanic eruption.
- In 1969, the team which was to make the second moon landing, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean, took off aboard Apollo 12 from Cape Kennedy.
- In 1973, Britain's Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips were married in Westminster Abbey.
- In 1981, Senegal and Gambia formed a confederation known as Senegambia and headed by the president of Senegal, Abdou Diouf.
- In 1983, the first U.S. cruise missiles arrived at Greenham Common airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
- In 1991, Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia made a triumphant return home after 13 years in exile.
- In 1993, Puerto Rico's pro-statehood Gov. Pedro Rossello conceded narrow defeat in the island's plebiscite on whether to become the 51st American state.
- In 1994, the first fare-paying passengers on the new rail service traveled through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France.
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