TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS TUESDAY, NOV. 14, the 318th day of 2017. There are 47 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1889, inspired by the Jules Verne novel “Around the World in Eighty Days,” New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to make the trip in less time than the fictional Phileas Fogg. (She completed the journey in 72 days.)
In 1851, Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” was published in the United States.
In 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, Va.
In 1954, the president of Egypt, Muhammad Naguib, was deposed by the Revolutionary Command Council, leaving Gamal Abdel Nasser in charge as acting head of state.
In 1965, the U.S. Army’s first major military operation of the Vietnam War began with the the five-day Battle of Ia Drang. (The fighting ended on Nov. 18 with both sides claiming victory.)
In 1969, Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon.
In 1996, singer Michael Jackson married his plastic surgeon’s nurse,
Debbie Rowe, in a ceremony in Sydney, Australia. (Rowe filed for divorce in 1999.)
In 1997, a jury in Fairfax, Va., 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, he was executed.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Kathleen Hughes is 89. Former NASA astronaut Fred Haise is 84. Jazz musician Ellis Marsalis is 83. Writer P.J. O’Rourke is 70. Britain’s Prince Charles is 69. Rock singer-musician James Young (Styx) is 68. Pianist Yanni is 63. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is 63. Actor D.B. Sweeney is 56. Rapper Reverend Run (Run-DMC) and actor Patrick Warburton are 53. Pop singer Jeanette Jurado (Expose) is 52. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling is 51. Rock musician Brian Yale is 49. Actor Josh Duhamel is 45. Rock musician Travis Barker is 42. Actor Brian Dietzen is 40. Rapper Shyheim is 40. Rock musician Tobin Esperance (Papa Roach) and actress Olga Kurylenko are 38. Actress-comedian Vanessa Bayer and actor Russell Tovey are 36. Actor Cory Michael Smith is 31. Actor Graham Patrick Martin is 26.