Here are five interesting facts about November 14 in District Of Columbia history:

1. In 1969, the Washington, D.C. City Council passed the first gay rights bill in the United States. The bill prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, employment and other areas.

2. On November 14, 1910, Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely made the first successful airplane takeoff from a ship. He flew his Curtiss biplane from a makeshift runway on the deck of the U.S. Navy cruiser USS Birmingham in Norfolk, Virginia.

3. In 1984, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund announced that a winning design by Maya Lin had been selected for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial, consisting of two black granite walls with the names of over 58,000 fallen soldiers, was later completed on the National Mall and dedicated in 1982.

4. On November 14, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act into law. The act required warning labels on all smokeless tobacco products sold in the U.S. and funded public health campaigns to warn against the dangers of smokeless tobacco use.

5. In 1889, The Washington Post reported the capture of Harry Hayward, a notorious criminal who had been sought by police for months. Hayward was implicated in the murder of Catherine Ging, a Minneapolis socialite, and was later convicted and hanged for the crime.