_{Cover: Eugene Ely takes off from the deck of the USS Birmingham, Hampton Roads, Virginia, November 14, 1910}

On This Day in History

• Journalist Nellie Bly sets out to go around the world in eighty days — and does so in 72 (1889)
• Eugene Ely becomes the first person to take off in an airplane off a ship (1910)
• The Battle of the Somme ends (1916)
• Coventry is bombed by the Luftwaffe and its cathedral is nearly destroyed (1940)
• The Apalachin meeting of 100 top mafiosi is raided by state and local police; 60 are arrested (1957)
• Apollo 12, second crewed mission to the Moon, takes off (1969)
• The Marshall University football team are killed in the crash of Southern Airways 932 (1970)
• Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars (1971)
• Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips (1973)
• A budget standoff in Congress shuts down the US federal government (1995)

Birthdays

• Leopold Mozart, musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1719)
• Johann van Beethoven, musician, father of Ludwig van Beethoven (1740)
• Robert Fulton, steamboat inventor (1765)
• Fanny Mendelssohn, musician, sister of Felix Mendelssohn (1805)
• Claude Monet, painter (1840)
• Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian prime minister (1889)
• Mamie Eisenhower, US First Lady (1896)
• Aaron Copeland, composer (1900)
• Dick Powell, actor (1904)
• Louise Brooks, actress (1906)
• Joseph McCarthy, censured US Senator (1908)
• Barbara Hutton, the “Poor Little Rich Girl” (1912)
• Sherwood Schwartz, sitcom creator (1916)
• Johnny Desmond, singer (1919)
• Veronica Lake, actress (1919)
• Brian Keith, actor (1921)
• طرس بطرس غالى (Boutros Boutros-Ghali), UN Secretary-General (1922)
• McLean Stevenson, actor (1927)
• Ed White, Apollo 1 astronaut (1930)
• Fred Haise, Apollo 13 astronaut (1933)
• حسين بن طلال (Hussein bin Talal), Jordanian monarch (1935)
• Freddie Garrity, frontman for Freddie and the Dreamers (1936)
• Wendy Carlos, composer (1939)
• Peter Norton, Norton Utilities creator (1943)
• P. J. O’Rourke, journalist and humorist (1947)
• Buckwheat Zydeco, accordion player (1947)
• Sandahl Bergman, actress (1951)
• Yanni, musician (1954)
• Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State (1954)
• D. B. Sweeney, actor (1961)
• Laura San Giacomo, actress (1961)
• Patrick Warburton, actor (1964)
• Curt Schilling, baseball player and game company executive (1966)
• Janine Lindemulder, porn star (1968)

Deaths

• Алекса́ндр Не́вский (Alexander Nevsky), Russian Orthodox saint (1263)
• Nell Gwyn, mistress of Charles II (1687)
• Gottfried Leibniz, mathematician (1716)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher (1831)
• Booker T. Washington, educator and activist (1915)
• Jack O’Connor, baseball player (1937)
•  অভয চরণারবিন্দ ভক্তিবেদান্ত স্বামীপ্রভুপাদ (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada), founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna) (1977)
• Jack Finney, author (1995)
• Eddie Bracken, actor (2002)

Holidays

• America Recycles Day (US)
• Children’s Day (India)
• Day of the Colombian woman (Colombia)
• Equorum Probatio (ancient Rome)
• I Love to Write Day (founded by author John Riddle)
• Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day (US, informal)
• National American Teddy Bear Day (Vermont Teddy Bear Company)
• National Bundt Pan Day (Nordic Ware)
• National Day of Play (Playmobil)
• National Guacamole Day (US food holidays)
• National Pickle Day (US food holidays)
• Re-Adjustment Movement’s Day (Guinea-Bissau)
• World Diabetes Day (International)

November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years), with 47 days remaining until year’s end.