This Day In European History

14th November

Events
1666: The First blood transfusion: an experiment in England using two dogs.
1994: Public access is opened to the Channel Tunnel, the first land link between England and France for thousands of years.

Births
1650: King William III of England.
1719: Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer.
1771: Marie Bichat, French physiologist.
1798: Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist.
1840: Claude Monet, French impressionist.

Deaths
1263: Alexander Nevsky, Russian commander.
1670: Comenius, Bohemian teacher.
1687: Nell Gwyn, British actress and mistress.
1716: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician.
1734: Louise de Keroualle, French mistress.
1831: Georg Wilhelm Hegel, German philosopher.
1825: Johann Richter, German novelist.

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