November 14
1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was published.
1889 - Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.
1910 - Eugene B. Ely became the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss pusher rolled off a sloping platform on the deck of the scout cruiser USS Birmingham off Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1915 - Black leader and educator Booker T. Washington died in Tuskegee, Alabama at age 59.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service.
1940 - During World War II, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry.
1965 - The U.S. Army’s first major military operation of the Vietnam War began with the start of the five-day Battle of Ia Drang.
1969 - Apollo 12, the second manned lunar expedition, was launched.
1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 level for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.
1973 - Britain’s Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey.
1995 - The federal government began a partial shutdown of government services after Congress could not pass a budget.
1996 - Singer Michael Jackson married his plastic surgeon’s nurse, Debbie Rowe, in a ceremony in Sydney, Australia.
1997 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia, decided that Pakistani national Aimal Khan Kasi should get the death penalty for gunning down two CIA employees outside agency headquarters. (Five years later on this date, Kasi was executed.)
2002 - Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to lead a party in Congress.
2003 - The most distant object ever found in our solar system, named Sedna, was discovered by astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory.
2012 - Israel said it had killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing in a wave of airstrikes launched in response to days of rocket fire out of Hamas-ruled Gaza.
2013 - Former Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger was led off to prison to begin serving a life sentence at 84 for his murderous reign in the 1970s and ’80s.
2020 - Donald Trump supporters unwilling to accept Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory gathered in cities across the country including Washington, D.C., where thousands rallied.
2021 - A 9-year-old Dallas boy became the tenth and youngest person to die from injuries sustained during a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston nine days earlier.
2022 - A University of Virginia student shot and killed three members of the school’s football team as they returned to campus from a field trip.
Birthdays
22 - Chloe Lang (actress)
27 - Sophia Culpo (model)
32 - Graham Patrick Martin (actor)
33 - Yanet Garcia (model)
37 - Cory Michael Smith (actor)
30 - Francisco Lindor (baseball player)
34 - Stella Maeve (actress)
42 - Russell Tovey (actor)
42 - Vanessa Bayer (actress/comedian)
44 - Olga Kurylenko (actress)
46 - Brian Dietzen (actor)
51 - Josh Duhamel (actor)
54 - Butch Walker (singer)
57 - Curt Schilling (baseball player)
59 - Patrick Warburton (actor)
62 - D.B. Sweeney (actor)
62 - Laura San Giacomo (actress)
69 - Condoleezza Rice (politician)
69 - Yanni (musician)
72 - Stephen Bishop (singer)
75 - King Charles III (British monarch)
95 - Kathleen Hughes (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 14
1943 - Sid Luckman (Chicago Bears) became the first to throw for more than 400 yards. He threw for 433 yards and seven touchdowns against the New York Giants.
1964 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings establishes a new NHL career record with his 627th goal.
1970 - A chartered Southern Airways plane crashed while trying to land in West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board, including the Marshall University football team and its coaching staff.
1993 - Don Shula (Miami Dolphins) set a new NFL record with his 325th victory.
1998 - Basketball star Dennis Rodman and actress/model Carmen Electra were married in Las Vegas.
2018 - New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom wins NL Cy Young Award; his 10 wins fewest ever by a Cy Young winner in a non-strike-shortened season; MLB-leading 1.70 ERA; 29 consecutive start streak longest in MLB history.
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