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Thursday November 14, 2013 This is the 318th day of the year, with 47 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: taste Your tongue can detect only four basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. The tongue is divided into different taste areas, each containing taste buds that are sensitive to one of these tastes. There are over 10,000 microscopic taste buds on the tongue and these are located on or between tiny projections called papillae. Each taste bud contains a cluster of taste cells. When food is chewed, chemicals dissolve in saliva and go into the pores. The chemicals stimulate taste hairs and these send impulses along nerve fibers to the brain's taste areas where the impulses are interpreted. The life span of a taste bud is only 7-14 days.
Holidays Feast day of St. Laurence O'Toole, St. Adeotus Aribert, St. Nicholas Tavelic, St. Dubricius or Dyfrig, St. Stephen of Como, and St. Peter of Narbonne.
Guinea-Bissau: Re-Adjustment Movement's Day.
India: Children's Day.
Events 1501 - Arthur Tudor of England married Katherine of Aragon.
1666 - First blood transfusion took place; it was performed by Dr. Croone in England.
1732 - The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin, signed a contract with its first librarian. The Library Company served as the de facto Library of Congress until 1800.
1770 - Scottish explorer James Bruce discovered the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.
1832 - The first streetcar -- a horse-drawn vehicle called the John Mason -- went into operation in New York City.
1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the United States.
1889 - Newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set off to attempt to break Jules Verne's imaginary hero Phileas Fogg's record of voyaging around the world in 80 days. She beat the record, needing just over 72 days for the trip.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began its first radio broadcasts.
1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippines a free commonwealth.
1940 - German Luftwaffe bombers virtually destroyed the industrial town of Coventry, England.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and all of America's top military brass, narrowly escaped disaster aboard the U.S. battleship Iowa, when a live torpedo is accidentally fired at them from the U.S. destroyer William D. Porter.
1968 - Yale University announced that it will become co-ed.
1969 - Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the moon, was launched, with astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and Alan L. Bean aboard.
1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 level for the first time.
1982 - Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was released from prison after 11 months.
2002 - Nancy Pelosi of California was elected to succeed Richard Gephardt, who chose to step down, as leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives; she was the first woman to be named leader of either party in either house of Congress.
Births 1650 - William III, King of England (1689-1702).
1765 - Robert Fulton, American builder of first profitable steamboat.
1840 - Claude Monet, French Impressionist artist.
1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, India prime minister.
1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of 34th U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower.
1900 - Aaron Copeland, American composer.
1935 - Jordan's King Hussein.
1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, American political satirist, journalist, and writer.
1948 - Charles, prince of Wales, heir to the British throne.
1954 - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Deaths 1915 - Booker T. Washington, African-American educator and reformer.
1996 - Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, the highest-ranking figure in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States during his tenure.
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