November 14 - Probably

Probably

(Probably up to no good.)

This Day In History

1770

James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1832
First streetcar (horse-drawn) debuts in New York City; fare 12 cents.

1889

Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.

1910

Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

1922

The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

1952

The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.

1967

American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.

1969

NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

1989

Premiere of Disney's The Little Mermaid.
2003
Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.

Famous Birthdays

1650

King William III of England (d. 1702)

1719

Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father (d. 1787)

1740

Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)

1765

Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)

1840

Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)

1896

Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)

1900

Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)

1904

Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963)

1906

Louise Brooks, American dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985)

1916

Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)

1919

Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)

1927

McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
1947
P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
1954
Condoleezza Rice, American educator, diplomat and 66th United States Secretary of State
1959
Paul McGann, British actor
1961
D. B. Sweeney, American actor
1966
Curt Schilling, American baseball player