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Today in History November 14

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

1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.

1960 New Orleans integrates two all-white schools.

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

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

1979 US President Jimmy Carter freezes all Iranian assets in the United States in response to Iranian militants holding more than 50 Americans hostage.

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.


Born on November 14

1765 Robert Fulton, American engineer who invented the first steamboat.

1908 Joseph McCarthy, anti-Communist senator from Wisconsin.


JOTD
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Officer asks a young engineer fresh out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "And what starting salary are you looking for?" The engineer replies, "In the region of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package." The interviewer inquires, "Well, what would you say to a package of five weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every two years, say, a red Corvette?" The engineer sits up straight and says, "Wow! Are you kidding?" The interviewer replies, "Yeah, but you started it."