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Moby-Dick / BBC / Apollo 12 / Black or White

On This Day (November 14): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
November 14, 2025

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Good morning — it’s Friday, November 14. Today, we’re exploring the Great Comet, the first horse-drawn streetcar, the birth of Moby-Dick, the first battle of the Vietnam War, Michael Jackson's "Black or White," and much more — all in quick and clean bites.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1680

Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet).

-1832

The New York and Harlem company launched the country's first horse-drawn streetcar.

-1851

Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, an epic novel. Now a classic of American literature, but it was initially a commercial failure.

-1856

Gail Borden gets a patent for his invention of condensed milk.

-1896

Niagara Falls power plant begins operation.

-1920

Russian Bolsheviks occupy Sevastopol, ending anticommunist efforts to regain control of the government.

-1922

BBC begins daily radio broadcasts from the 2LO transmitter at Marconi House.

-1941

Alfred Hitchcock's romantic thriller Suspicion, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, premiered.

-1965

The first major battle between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces occurs in the Ia Drang Valley.

-1969

Apollo 12, the second crewed moon mission, launches from Cape Canaveral with astronauts Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean.

-1991

Michael Jackson's groundbreaking "Black or White" music video premieres simultaneously in 27 countries on MTV, Fox, and the BBC.

-1994

The first trains run through the Channel Tunnel, linking England and Europe under the English Channel.

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Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1865

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