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On This Day

November 14

1986
Ivan Boesky: The Wall Street investor pleads guilty to illegal insider trading. He agreed to return profits and pay a $100 million fine.

1976
Jimmy Carter's church: The Plains Baptist Church of Georgia drops its 11-year-old ban on attendance by blacks. Carter had been opposed to the ban.

1972
First Dow-Jones Index closing above 1000: Closing at 1003.16.

1967
Vietnam War - First U.S. general killed during the war by enemy fire: Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth is killed when the helicopter he was riding in is gunned down over Hué, Vietnam.

1943
Leonard Bernstein: The 25-year-old gets his first big break when his asked to fill in as conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

1942
World War II: U.S. Navy pilot Rickenbacker and two of his crew are rescued after their plane went down in the South Pacific. They had been drifting on a raft for three weeks.

1940
World War II: The Luftwaffe raids Coventry, England, killing over 500 people and destroying the historic medieval cathedral.

1910
First airplane take-off from the deck of a ship: Eugene Ely takes off from the USS Birmingham.

1889
Around the World in 80 Days: New York World reporter Nellie Bly sets sail from New York in an effort to beat Philéas Fogg's (from Jules Verne's novel) time for a trip around the world. She made it with eight days to spare.

1832
First U.S. streetcar: The New York and Harlem Railroad's horse-drawn vehicle makes its debut, giving a ride to public officials. It road on rails laid in the center of the road. It was opened to the public two weeks later.

1789
First American bishop: Father John Carroll is chosen. He was ordained in 1790, and placed in charge of the Diocese of Baltimore.

1952     d. 1993
Ray Sharkey (Red Hook), American actor. TV: Wiseguy (Sonny Steelgrave). He died of AIDS.

1948
James Young, American guitarist, with Styx. Music: Lady (1973), Grand Illusion (1977), and Babe (1979, #1).

1948
Charles, Prince of Whales and heir to the British throne.

1935
Hussein I, King of Jordan.

1930     d. 1967
Edward Higgins White II, American astronaut. He died with two other astronauts when Apollo 1 caught fire on the launch pad during a simulation.

1929
McLean Stevenson, American actor. TV: M*A*S*H (Col. Blake).

1924
Phyllis Avery, American actress. TV: George Gobel/Eddie Fisher Show (George Gobel's wife Alice).

1921
Brian Keith, American actor. TV: Family Affair (Uncle Bill).

1919     d. 1973
Veronica Lake (Constance Ockelman), American actress, known for her trademark long blonde hair covering one eye. Film: This Gun for Hire (1942) and Hold That Blonde (1945).

1908     d. 1957
Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (Wisconsin). He led the Senate inquiry into the alleged communist activities during the 1950s.

1908     d. 1993
Harrison Evans Salisbury, American Pulitzer-winning reporter, Soviet expert, and editor of the New York Times. He was the first American reporter in Hanoi during the Vietnam War.

1904     d. 1963
Dick Powell, American actor, singer. His death was attributed to radiation exposure received from an A-bomb test near the filming of a movie in 1953.

1900     d. 1990
Aaron Copland, American composer, Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring.

1891     d. 1941
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Canadian Nobel-winning scientist. He and Charles Best discovered insulin (1921) for which he shared the Nobel Prize with Dr. J.J.R. MacLeod.

1889     d. 1964
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman, first prime minister of the Republic of India (1947-64).

1881     d. 1969
Nicholas M. Schenck, American film executive, co-founder (1924) and president (1927-55) of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

1842     d. 1959
Walter Williams, American soldier, the last surviving Civil War veteran. He served in the Confederate Army (1864).

1840     d. 1926
Claude Monet, French impressionist painter, known of his landscapes using bright unmixed colors. In 1923 his eyesight was surgically restored after having been blind for several years.

1765     d. 1815
Robert Fulton, American inventor, steamboat pioneer.

1933     b. 1864
Edward Nash Hurley, American tool maker, founder of Standard Pneumatic Tool Co. of Chicago (1896). He developed the American and European pneumatic tool industry.

1915     b. 1856
Booker T. Washington (Booker Taliaferro Washington), American educator, founder of the Tuskegee Institute (1881) for the training of Negroes.

1832     b. 1737
Charles Carroll, American Revolutionary leader. He was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the richest U.S. citizen at the time of his death.

1716     b. 1646
Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, German mathematician for whom the Leibniz series is named. He created the notation "dy/dx" and the integral sign. He designed a machine that could multiply and divide (1671), introduced binary numbers (1679), and created differential (1684) and integral calculus (1686).

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