WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007
Today is Wednesday, November 14, the 318th day of 2007. There are 47 days left in the year.
1666 _ Samuel Pepys reports on the first blood transfusion (between dogs)
1851 _ ``Moby Dick" by Herman Melville published
1896 _ Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1906 _ Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to visit a foreign country (Panama)
1918 _ The Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president
1969 _ Apollo 12 launched for the second manned Moon landing
1973 _ Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips
1975 _ Spain abandoned the Spanish Sahara
1977 _ Egyptian President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
1984 _ Astronauts aboard ``Discovery" pluck a second satellite from orbit
1986 _ The SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1990 _ Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of the party
1991 _ Michael Jackson's ``Black or White" video premiers on FOX TV