History for November 15

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William Pitt the Elder 1708 - Known as the Great Commoner, 1st Earl of Chatham, Georgia O'Keeffe 1887, Ed Asner 1929


Petula Clark 1932, Frida Lyngstad (ABBA) 1945, Beverly D'Angelo 1954



1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.


1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.


1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War.


1901 - Miller Reese Hutchison patented an electrical hearing aid.


1939 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.


1969 - In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War.


1986 - Ivan F. Boesky, reputed to be the highest-paid person on Wall Street, faced penalties of $100 million for insider stock trading. It was the highest penalty ever imposed by the SEC.


1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.