On this day in history (November 14, 2014) 1305 Clement V was crowned pope, becoming the first of the Avignon popes. 1851 Harper & Brothers published Herman Melvilles masterpiece Moby Dick. 1885 The Serbo-Bulgarian War began when Serbian King Milan Obrenovic IV declared war on Bulgaria. 1915 Educator, reformer, and first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (bow Tuskegee University) Booker T. Washington, he most influential spokesman for African Americans in the late 19th and the early 20th century, died. 1935 King Hussein, whose reign (1953-99) marked the shaping of the modern kingdom of Jordan, was born. 1948 Prince Charles - heir apparent to the British throne, the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh - was born. 1969 Apollo 12 was launched, carrying a crew o Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr. and Alan L. Bean, and five days later the mission made the second landing on the moon. 1962 The Ethiopian parliament and Eritrean Assembly voted unanimously for the abolition of Eritreas federal status, making Eritrea (independent since 1993) a simple province of the Ethiopian empire. 1972 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time. 2002 Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to ve named leader of either party in either house of Congress.
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