GMT 11/14/2017 Taco Tuesday

1501 Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon.

1812 As Napoleon Bonaparte's army retreats form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.

1851 Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick is published in New York.

1882 Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, loses his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie.

1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.

1910 Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk.

1921 The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas.

1922 The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House.

1930 Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamagushi.

1935 Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated.

1940 German bombers devastate Coventry in Great Britain, killing 1,000 in the worst air raid of the war.

1951 The United States and Yugoslavia sign a military aid pact.

1951 French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam.

1960 New Orleans integrates two all-white schools.

1960 President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings.

1961 President Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000.

1963 Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast.

1965 The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops.

1968 Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed.

1969 The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy.

1979 US President Jimmy Carter freezes all Iranian assets in the United States in response to Iranian militants holding more than 50 Americans hostage. (And this is how we got nightline)

1982 Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released by communist authorities after 11 months confinement; he would win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and be elected Poland's president in 1990.

1984 The Space Shuttle Discovery's crew rescues a second satellite.

1990 Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany sign a treaty officially making the Oder-Neisse line the border between their countries.

1995 Budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress forces temporary closure of national parks and museums; federal agencies forced to operate with skeleton staff.

2001 Northern Alliance fighters take control of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.

2008 First G-20 economic summit convenes, in Washington, DC.

2012 Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip.

Born on November 14

1909 Joseph McCarthy, American Senator, (Rep - Wisconsin) who claimed anti-communists had infiltrated the US government, born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin (d. 1957)


Dirty joke of the day
He asked a young woman:
– “Would you go to bed with a man for 50 000 dollars?”
– “Sure.”
– “Would you go to bed for a man for 10 dollars?”
– “No, what do you think I am?”
– “We both know that. Now let’s bargain about the price..”