NEA DATEBOOK

Today is the 318th day of 2022 and the 54th day of autumn.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1851, the first American edition of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” was published.

In 1889, New York World reporter Nellie Bly set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days, inspired by Jules Verne. It took her 72 days.

In 1995, the U.S. federal government temporarily closed national parks and museums as a result of a budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

In 2008, the first G-20 economic summit began in Washington, D.C.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Robert Fulton (1765-1815), inventor; Claude Monet (18401926), painter; Aaron Copland (1900-1990), composer; Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), U.S. senator; Ed White (1930-1967), astronaut; Wendy Carlos (1939- ), composer; P.J. O’Rourke (1947-2022), journalist/ author; Charles III (1948- ), British monarch; Condoleezza Rice (1954- ), former secretary of state; Yanni (1954- ), musician; Patrick Warburton (1964- ), actor; Josh Duhamel (1972- ), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: In 1910, the first airplane takeoff from the deck of a ship occurred near Hampton Roads, Virginia.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1970, a plane carrying 37 Marshall University football players, as well as the team’s head coach, several assistant coaches, doctors and staff members, Marshall’s athletic director and 25 team boosters, crashed outside an airport near Huntington, West Virginia, killing all on board.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “When are the world’s political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?” — P.J. O’Rourke, “All the Trouble in the World”

TODAY’S MOON: Between full moon (Nov. 8) and last quarter moon (Nov. 16).