Today in history, Nov 15th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 15th!

1626	The Pilgrim Fathers, who have settled in New Plymouth, buy out their London investors.
1777	The Articles of Confederation, instituting perpetual union of the United States of America, are adopted by Congress.
1805
1806	Explorer Zebulon Pike discovers the Colorado Peak that bears his name, despite the fact that he didn’t climb it.
1864	Union Major General William T. Sherman’s troops set fires that destroy much of Atlanta.
1881	The American Federation of Labor is founded.
1909	M. Metrot takes off in a Voisin biplane from Algiers, making the first manned flight in Africa.
1917	Kerensky flees and Bolsheviks take command in Moscow.
1920	Forty-one nations open the first League of Nations session in Geneva.
1922	It is announced that Dr. Alexis Carrel has discovered white corpuscles.
1926	The National Broadcasting Co. debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.
1930	General strikes and riots paralyze Madrid, Spain.
1937	Eighteen lawsuits are brought against the Tennessee Valley Authority, calling for its dissolution.
1939	The cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C.
1940	The first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription.
1942	An American fleet defeats a Japanese naval force in a clash off Guadalcanal.
1946	The 17th Paris Air Show opens at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees. It is the first show of this kind since World War II.
1957	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev asserts Soviet superiority in missiles, challenging the United States to a rocket-range shooting match.
1959	A farmer, his wife and two of their children were found murdered in their home in Holcomb, Kansas – a crime that was the subject of Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel “In Cold Blood.”
1960	The first submarine with nuclear missiles, USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina.
1962	Cuba threatens to down U.S. planes on reconnaissance flights over its territory.
1963	Argentina voids all foreign oil contracts.
1965	In the second day of combat, regiments of the 1st Cavalry Division battle on Landing Zones X-Ray against North Vietnamese forces in the Ia Drang Valley.
1969	A quarter of a million anti-Vietnam War demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
1985	Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.
1988	The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
1993	A judge in Mineola, N.Y., sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, who shot and wounded Buttafuoco’s wife, Mary Jo.
2002	Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China’s Communist Party leader.
2007	Baseball home run king Barry Bonds was indicted on charges related to grand jury testimony during which he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds was later convicted of obstruction of justice.
2011	Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City, evicting hundreds of protesters and then demolishing the tent city. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8oJxxkL6K8&feature=related

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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