TODAY IN HISTORY: Nov. 14 Today is Wednesday, Nov. 14, the 319th
day of 2012. There are 47 days left in the year. Today’s
Highlight in History: On Nov. 14, 1862, during the Civil War,
President Abraham Lincoln gave the go-ahead for Maj. Gen.
Ambrose Burnside’s plan to capture the Confederate capital of
Richmond; the resulting Battle of Fredericksburg proved a
disaster for the Union. On this date: In 1851, Herman Melville’s
novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” was first published in the
United States. In 1881, Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for
assassinating President James A. Garfield. (Guiteau was
convicted and hanged the following year.) In 1889, inspired by
Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth
Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80
days. (She made the trip in 72 days.) Jawarharlal Nehru (juh-
wah-hahr-LAHL’ NAY’-roo), the first prime minister of
independent India, was born. In 1910, Eugene B. Ely became the
first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss pusher