Today In History

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2023. There are 47 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

On Nov. 14, 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.

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.

› 1915: Black leader and educator Booker T. Washington died in Tuskegee, Alabama, at age 59.

› 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 blasted off for the moon, three months after Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on it.

› 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.

› 1996: Singer Michael Jackson married his plastic surgeon’s nurse, Debbie Rowe, in a ceremony in Sydney, Australia.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actor Kathleen Hughes is 95. Former NASA astronaut Fred Haise is 90. Composer Wendy Carlos is 84. Britain’s King Charles III is 75. Rock singer-musician James Young (Styx) is 74. Singer Stephen Bishop is 72. Blues musician Anson Funderburgh is 69. Pianist Yanni is 69. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is 69. Former presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett is 67. Actor Laura San Giacomo is 62. Actor D.B. Sweeney is 62. Rapper Reverend Run (Run-DMC) is 59. Actor Patrick Warburton is 59. Rock musician Nic Dalton is 59. Country singer Rockie Lynne is 59. Pop singer Jeanette Jurado (Expose) is 58. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling is 57. Rock musician Brian Yale is 55. Rock singer Butch Walker is 54. Actor Josh Duhamel is 51. Rock musician Travis Barker is 48. Contemporary Christian musician Robby Shaffer is 48. Actor Brian Dietzen is 46. Rapper Shyheim is 46. Rock musician Tobin Esperance (Papa Roach) is 44. Actor Olga Kurylenko is 44. Actor-comedian Vanessa Bayer is 42. Actor Russell Tovey is 42. New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor is 30. Actor Cory Michael Smith is 37. Actor Graham Patrick Martin is 32. NHL forward Taylor Hall is 32.