Also on this day: Inspired by the Jules Verne novel “Around the World in Eighty Days,” New York World reporter Nellie Bly (also known as Elizabeth Cochrane) sets out to make the trip in less time than the fictional Phileas Fogg. (She would complete the journey in 72 days.)The first group exhibition of surrealistic paintings opens at the Galerie Pierre in Paris.Apollo 12 blasts off for the moon.