1874 - Dion Boucicault's stage drama "The Shaughraun" opens at Wallack's Theatre, NYC
1881 - Leon Gambetta forms French government
1986 - FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Philadelphia
1993 - Don Shula becomes the coach with the most wins in NFL history
2008 - Italy plunges into recession, its first since the start of 2005, after GDP contracts a steeper-than-expected 0.5% in the third quarter
1774 - Gaspare Spontini, Italian opera composer and conductor (La Vestale), born in Maiolati, Papal State (d. 1851)
1904 - Aleksey Semyonovich Zhivotov, Russian composer, born in Kazan, Russia (d. 1964)
1916 - George Fierstone, British jazz and session drummer (The Skyrockets), born in London, England (d. 1984)
1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television screenwriter and producer (The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island), born in Passaic, New Jersey (d. 2011)
1970 - Dana Stubblefield, American football defensive tackle (Super Bowl XXIX; NFL Defensive Player of the Year and First-team All-Pro 1997 SF 49ers), born in Cleves, Ohio
1633 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
1909 - Joshua Slocum, Canadian-American seaman and adventurer (first man to sail around the world alone), departs from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, sailing south for the winter, and is lost at sea, at 65
1962 - Manuel Gálvez, Argentine novelist (La maestra normal), dies at 80
2021 - Susan Rosenblatt [née Goldman], American lawyer known for taking on Big Tobacco (Engle v. Liggett Group), dies of cancer at 70
2022 - Mitchell Rosenthal, American psychiatrist and founder of Phoenix House, dies of complications of pneumonia at 87
“Moby-Dick” is published in the United States on November 14, 1851. Herman Melville’s novel flopped but is now an American classic that contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction.