Today is Monday, Nov. 14, the 319th day of 2016. There are 47 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Jimmy Piersall, former Red Sox star and author of “Fear Strikes Out, is 87. Former astronaut Fred Haise is 83. Jazz musician Ellis Marsalis is 82. Composer Wendy Carlos is 77. Writer P.J. O’Rourke is 69. Britain’s Prince Charles is 68. Singer Stephen Bishop is 65. Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice is 62. Presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett is 60. Actor D.B. Sweeney is 55. Rapper Reverend Run (Run-DMC) is 52. Retired Red Sox All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling is 50. Singer Butch Walker is 47. Comedian Vanessa Bayer is 35.

In 1851, Herman Melville’s novel ‘‘Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale’’ was published in the United States, almost a month after being released in Britain.

In 1889, inspired by the Jules Verne novel ‘‘Around the World in Eighty Days,’’ New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to make the trip in less time than the fictional Phileas Fogg. (She completed the journey in 72 days.)

In 1910, Eugene Ely became the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss pusher rolled off a sloping platform on the scout cruiser USS Birmingham off Hampton Roads, Va.

In 1965, the US Army’s first major military operation of the Vietnam War began with the five-day Battle of Ia Drang.

In 1970, a chartered DC-9 crashed while trying to land in West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board, including the Marshall University football team and its coaching staff.

Last year, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.