On This Day, November 14: Moby-Dick Published in America in 1851, Apollo 12 Launched in 1969
On November 14, 1851, Harper & Brothers of New York published the American edition of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick in a single 635-page volume. The British edition had appeared a month earlier, on October 18, in three volumes under the title The Whale. Coolly received at the time, the whaling novel is now regarded as one of the greatest works of American literature.
On November 14, 1889, journalist Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochrane, set out from New York to beat the fictional record in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. She completed the journey in 72 days, a national sensation that reshaped investigative reporting.
On November 14, 1969, Apollo 12 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean on humanity's second Moon-landing mission, with President Nixon watching the launch in person. The crew landed in the Ocean of Storms on November 19 and splashed down in the Pacific on November 24.
On November 14, 1971, NASA's Mariner 9 reached Mars and became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, arriving days ahead of its Soviet counterparts.
(Source: History.com)
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Photo: 1969年阿波罗11号宇航员 Edwin Aldrin 在月球表面，阿波罗计划资料图，NASA 摄，公共领域 / Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin on the lunar surface in 1969, an Apollo program file photo, by NASA, public domain
