November 14 - This day in History

November 14: General Interest
1851: Moby-Dick published

On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York. Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: "Call me Ishmael"... read more


American Revolution
1776 : Benjamin Franklin takes sides
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/benjamin-franklin-takes-sides


Automotive
2006 : Last day for Texas' celebrated drive-in Pig Stands
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-day-for-texas-celebrated-drive-in-pig-stands


Civil War
1862 : Lincoln approves Burnside's plan to capture Richmond
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-approves-burnsides-plan


Cold War
1951 : United States gives military and economic aid to communist Yugoslavia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-gives-military-and-economic-aid-to-communist-yugoslavia


Crime
1986 : Ivan Boesky confesses to illegal stock trading activity
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ivan-boesky-confesses-to-illegal-stock-trading-activity


Disaster
1985 : Volcano erupts in Colombia and buries nearby towns
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/volcano-erupts-in-colombia-and-buries-nearby-towns


General Interest
1969 : Apollo 12 lifts off
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iapollo-12i-lifts-off

1982 : Walesa released from jail
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/walesa-released-from-jail


Hollywood
1941 : Cary Grant stars in Hitchcock's Suspicion
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cary-grant-stars-in-hitchcocks-suspicion


Literary
1851 : Moby-Dick is published
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/moby-dick-is-published


Music
1900 : American classical composer Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-classical-composer-aaron-copland-is-born-in-brooklyn-new-york


Old West
1882 : Franklin Leslie kills Billy "The Kid" Claiborne
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/franklin-leslie-kills-billy-the-kid-claiborne


Presidential
1959 : Kennedy publishes article on television and American politics
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-publishes-article-on-television-and-american-politics


Sports
1970 : Plane crash devastates Marshall University
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/plane-crash-devastates-marshall-university


Vietnam War
1965 : Major battle erupts in the Ia Drang Valley
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/major-battle-erupts-in-the-ia-drang-valley

1967 : Marine general killed in Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marine-general-killed-in-vietnam

1972 : Nixon promises Thieu that U.S. will continue to support South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-promises-thieu-that-us-will-continue-to-support-south-vietnam


World War I
1914 : Ottoman Empire declares a holy war
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ottoman-empire-declares-a-holy-war


World War II
1940 : Germans bomb Coventry
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-bomb-coventry