TODAY INHISTORY
Today is Saturday, Nov. 14.
TODAY'SHIGHLIGHT:
OnNov. 14, 1970, a chartered Southern Airways DC-9 crashed while trying to land inWest Virginia, killing all 75 people on board, including the MarshallUniversity football teamand its coaching staff.
ONTHISDATE:
In1851, HermanMelville’s novel“Moby-Dick; Or,The Whale” was published in theUnitedStates, almosta monthafterbeing releasedin Britain.
In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln gavethego-aheadforMaj. Gen. Ambrose Burn side’ s plan to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond; the resulting Battle of Frederic ks burg proved a disaster fortheUnion. In1889, JawarharlalNehru, the first prime minister of India, was born.
In1910, EugeneB. Ely became the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtis sp usher rolled off a sloping platform on the deck of the scout cruise rUSS Birmingham off Hampton Roads,Virginia.
In1915, African-American educatorBookerT. Washington, 59, died in Tuskegee,Alabama.
In1940, duringWorldWar II, German planes destroyed mostoftheEnglish townof Coventry.
In 1965, the U.S. Army’ s first major military operation of the Vietnam War began with the start of the five-day Battle of I aD rang .( The fighting between American troops and North Vietnamese forces ended on Nov .18 with both sides claimingvictory.) In1969, Apollo 12blastedoff forthemoon.
In1972, theDowJones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 level for the first time, endingthedayat 1,003.16.
In1990, itwas revealed that the pop duo Milli Va nil li( Rob Pi lat us and Fabric eM or van) had done none of the singing ontheirGrammy-winning debut album ,“Girl You Know It’sTrue.”
In1996, CardinalJoseph Bernardin, theseniorRoman Catholic prelate in the United States and leader of Chicago’ s 2.3million Catholics, diedat his home at age 68. Singer MichaelJackson married his plastic surgeon’snurse, Debbie Rowe, in a ceremony in Sydney, Australia .( Rowe filed fordivorcein1999.)
In1997, ajury inFairfax, Virginia, decidedthat Pakistani national Aim al Khan Ka si should get the death penalty for gunning down two CIA employees outside agency headquarters .( Five years later on this date, Aim al KhanKasiw as executed .) Tenyearsago: A21-member Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation forummeeting inYokohama,Japan, concludedwith a unanimous pledgebymembers toavoid raisingmore tradebarriers andtorollback those they mayhave erectedin the midstof crisis. Fiveyearsago: TheIslamic State group claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks inParis that killed130 people and said France would remain at the“top of the list” of its targets.Ahigh-speed train undergoing a test run derailed and plunged into a canal in northeast France, killing 11 people.
Oneyear ago: Former MassachusettsGov. Deval Patrick announced a late entry into the Democratic presidential race. (Patrick, the last remaining AfricanAmerican in the field, would end his bid in February after it failed to catch fire or resonate with voters.)