TODAY IN HISTORY

On Nov. 14, 1851, Herman Melville’s novel “MobyDick; Or, the Whale” was published in the United States after being released in Britain.

In 1940, during World War II, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry.

In 1969, Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon.

In 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.

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 2017, Papa John’s Pizza apologized for comments made by CEO John Schnatter, who had blamed sluggish pizza sales on NFL players kneeling during the national anthem.