On this day in history - Today, November, 14

Today in History

• 2010 Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula One World Drivers' Champion

  At 23 years old, the German competitive race driver became the youngest person to win the World Cham

• 1971 First spacecraft to orbit a planet

  NASA's Mariner 9 entered Mars' orbit after 167 days in space. Despite it being in Mars' orbit within

• 1969 Apollo 12 launched

  The crew of the NASA's second manned mission to the Moon included Commander Charles Conrad, Jr. Ric

• 1889 Nelie Bly sets out to go around the world in 80 days

  The American journalist, whose real name was Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, followed the footsteps of fi

• 1851 Moby Dick Makes its Debut in the United States

  The epic novel by Herman Melville about Captain Ahab's quest to find and kill Moby Dick, a white wha