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Your Front Page: 14 November 1941

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The World Birthday Chronicle

Friday, 14th November 1941Classic broadsheet

This week's news · 1941

Battle of Rostov

Rostov-on-Don. The Battle of Rostov took place on the Eastern Front of World War II around Rostov-on-Don and was fought between Army Group South of Nazi Germany and the Southern Front of the Soviet Union.

This engagement marked one of the first major successful counter-attacks by Soviet forces, forcing the German army into a significant retreat.

Famous birthdays: born on this date

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam

Born 1941. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam ((1941-11-14)14 November 1941 – (1989-11-24)24 November 1989) was a Palestinian-born Sunni Islamist

Jawaharlal Nehru

Born 1889. Leader of India's independence movement who became the country's first prime minister and served from 1947 until 1964

Charles III

Born 1948. King of the United Kingdom since 2022, previously the longest-serving Prince of Wales and a long-time environmental campaigner

From the archives: also on this date

Congress of Monastir

1908. The Congress of Manastir was a national conference held in the city of Manastir from November 14 to 22, 1908, with the goal of standardizing the Albanian alphabet.

2012 Gaza War

2012. In November 2012, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Pillar of Defense, which was an eight-day campaign in the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip, beginning on 14 November 2012 with the killing of Ahmed Jabari, chief of the Gaza military wing of…

2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état attempt

2017. The 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that took place in Zimbabwe on 14 to 21 November 2017, when Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as president and party leader of ZANU–PF and was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Your day in numbers

Star sign

Scorpio

Water sign, ruled by Pluto

Birthstone

Topaz

The birthstone for November

UK Number 1 single

Before the charts

The UK singles chart began on 14 November 1952

World population

About 2.3 billion

People on Earth in 1941

The cost of living in Britain, 1941

Average house

£689

Typical UK home

Pint of beer

9d

In a UK pub

Loaf of bread

8d

Large white loaf

Average salary

£220

UK full-time, per year

Approximate UK averages at the time, in the money of the day.

How your birthday newspaper is made

Enter your date of birth and we will print a one-off newspaper front page for the day you were born. The headline is a real historical event from our archive, chosen from your exact birth date where we have one, then from the same week, then from the same date in an earlier year. The page also shows famous people born on your birthday, your star sign and birthstone, the UK number one single, the world population and the cost of living in Britain at the time.

  • The layout, typefaces and colours follow the newspaper style of your birth decade: dense broadsheets before 1940, classic bold headlines in the 1940s and 1950s, tabloid energy in the 1960s and 1970s, colour accents in the 1980s and 1990s, and clean full-colour pages from 2000 onwards.
  • Headlines and summaries come from our archive of historical events, built from Wikidata and reviewed by our editorial team. When a famous person linked to the story has a profile on our site, their Wikimedia Commons portrait appears with the photographer's credit; otherwise you see an original woodcut or halftone illustration.
  • Add your town or country of birth to name the masthead, for example The Manchester Birthday Chronicle. Your birthplace is stored only on your device.
  • Every front page has its own link, so you can send it to friends and family, and you can download it as a high-resolution image to print or frame.

Questions people ask

Frequently asked questions

How do I get a newspaper front page from the day I was born?
Enter your day, month and year of birth above and press the button. Your personalised front page appears instantly, with its own link you can share and a download button for a print-quality image.
Are the headlines real?
Yes. Every headline is a real historical event from our archive. If nothing in our archive happened on your exact birth date, we use an event from the same week, or the most recent event on the same date in an earlier year, and the label above the headline says which.
Why does my front page look different from a friend's?
The design changes with the decade you were born in, from ornate pre-war broadsheets to modern full-colour layouts, so each page looks like a newspaper from its own era.
Is the birthday newspaper free?
Yes. Creating, sharing and downloading your personalised birthday front page costs nothing.

Further reading

Reviewed by the Who Shares My Birthday editorial team.

Last reviewed: October 2026