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Today in History: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
On Nov. 14, 1940, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry during World War II.
1851 Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was published.
1881 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield. (He was convicted and hanged.)
1922 The British Broadcasting Corp. began its domestic radio service.
1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth.
1969 Apollo 12 was launched on the second manned mission to the moon.
1972 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time.
1973 Britain's Princess Anne married Capt. Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey.
1986 The SEC fined Ivan F. Boesky $100 million for insider stock trading.
1995 The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while government offices operated with skeleton crews.
1999 The United Nations imposed sanctions on Afghanistan for refusing to hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden.
