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 Nov. 14, 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.)
On this date
1851 — Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” was published in the United States, almost a month after being released in Britain.
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.
1925 — The first group exhibition of surrealistic paintings opened at the Galerie Pierre in Paris. 1969 — Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon.
1970 — A chartered Southern Airways DC-9 crashed while trying to land in West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board, including the Marshall University football team and its coaching staff.
1986 — The Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a $100 million penalty on inside-trader Ivan F. Boesky and barred him from working again in the securities industry.
1996 — Cardinal Joseph Bernardin (BURN’-uhdeen), the senior Roman Catholic prelate in the United States and leader of Chicago’s 2.3 million Catholics, died at his home at age 68. Singer Michael Jackson married his plastic surgeon’s nurse, Debbie Rowe, in a ceremony in Sydney, Australia. (Rowe filed for divorce in 1999.)
2011 — The last patients of Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital were placed in other assisted living facilities following the closure of the hospital in an agreement between the state and federal governments.
One year ago
In his first extended remarks on the election, President Barack Obama abandoned his dire warnings and dark predictions about his newly elected successor and urged Americans to give President-elect Donald Trump time to rise to the daunting responsibilities of the office.
Today’s Birthdays
Actress Kathleen Hughes is 89. Former NASA astronaut Fred Haise is 84. Jazz musician Ellis Marsalis is 83. Singer Stephen Bishop is 66. Blues musician Anson Funderburgh is 63. Pianist Yanni is 63. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is 63. Former presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett is 61. Actress Laura San Giacomo is 56. Actor D.B. Sweeney is 56. Rock musician Brian Yale is 49. Rock singer Butch Walker is 48. Rock musician Travis Barker is 42. Contemporary Christian musician Robby Shaffer is 42. Actor Brian Dietzen is 40. Rapper Shyheim is 40. Actress Olga Kurylenko is 38. Actress-comedian Vanessa Bayer is 36. Actor Russell Tovey is 36. Actor Cory Michael Smith is 31. Actor Graham Patrick Martin is 26. Model Elementary School fourth-grader Avery Eury, daughter of Joey Eury and Alicia Jones of Rome, is 10.