November 15
1763 - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying the Mason-Dixon Line, which settled a border dispute involving Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pike's Peak in present-day Colorado.
1864 - Late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta; the campaign ended with the capture of Savannah, Georgia on Dec. 21.
1939 - The cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. was laid by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1959 - Four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home. (Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were later convicted of the killings and hanged in a case made famous by the Truman Capote book “In Cold Blood.”)
1966 - The flight of Gemini 12, the final mission of the Gemini program, ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic after spending four days in orbit.
1969 - About 250,000 protestors against the Vietnam War, the largest war protest ever, converged peacefully on Washington, D.C.
2002 - Hu Jinato replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader.
2012 - The Justice Department announced that BP had agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and pay a record $4.5 billion, including nearly $1.3 billion in criminal fines.
2019 - Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted of all seven counts in a federal indictment accusing him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation of whether Trump coordinated with Russia during the 2016 campaign. The president commuted Stone’s 40-month sentence days before he was to report to prison.
2022 - The United Nations announced that the world population, based on U.N. projections, had reached 8 billion people.
Birthdays
23 - Sadie Stanley (actress)
27 - Sephora Maria Noori (model)
29 - Karl-Anthony Towns (basketball player)
33 - Shailene Woodley (actress)
39 - Lily Aldridge (model)
43 - Lorena Ochoa (golfer)
47 - Sean Murray (actor)
50 - Chad Kroeger (singer)
52 - Jonny Lee Miller (actor)
53 - Jay Harrington (actor)
67 - Kevin Eubanks (musician)
68 - John Roberts (news correspondent)
73 - Beverly D'Angelo (actress)
79 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad (singer)
84 - Sam Waterston (actor)
92 - Petula Clark (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 15
1960 - Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points in a game against the New York Knicks.
1964 - Mickey Wright shoots a 62, the lowest golf score for a female professional at the Tall City Open in Midland, Texas.
1992 - Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career.
1998 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) registered his fifth straight 100-yard running game. It was the 75th of his career.
2002 - Mike Modano of the Dallas Stars scored his 1,000th NHL point. He was only the 5th U.S.-born player to reach the milestone.
2005 - Major League Baseball players and owners agreed to tougher penalties for steroid use for the next season. The new rules called for a 50 game suspension for a first offense, 100 games for the second, a lifetime ban for a third, plus testing for amphetamines.
2017 - Three basketball players from UCLAbia were arrested and detained in China on charges of shoplifting. (They were ultimately released on request from President Donald Trump.)
2018 - LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers passes Wilt Chamberlain in to fifth place on the NBA's career scoring list.
2020 - American Dustin Johnson wins the Masters which had been moved from its traditional spring playing date due to COVID.
1763 - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying the Mason-Dixon Line, which settled a border dispute involving Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pike's Peak in present-day Colorado.
1864 - Late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta; the campaign ended with the capture of Savannah, Georgia on Dec. 21.
1939 - The cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. was laid by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1959 - Four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home. (Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were later convicted of the killings and hanged in a case made famous by the Truman Capote book “In Cold Blood.”)
1966 - The flight of Gemini 12, the final mission of the Gemini program, ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic after spending four days in orbit.
1969 - About 250,000 protestors against the Vietnam War, the largest war protest ever, converged peacefully on Washington, D.C.
2002 - Hu Jinato replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader.
2012 - The Justice Department announced that BP had agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and pay a record $4.5 billion, including nearly $1.3 billion in criminal fines.
2019 - Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted of all seven counts in a federal indictment accusing him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation of whether Trump coordinated with Russia during the 2016 campaign. The president commuted Stone’s 40-month sentence days before he was to report to prison.
2022 - The United Nations announced that the world population, based on U.N. projections, had reached 8 billion people.
Birthdays
23 - Sadie Stanley (actress)
27 - Sephora Maria Noori (model)
29 - Karl-Anthony Towns (basketball player)
33 - Shailene Woodley (actress)
39 - Lily Aldridge (model)
43 - Lorena Ochoa (golfer)
47 - Sean Murray (actor)
50 - Chad Kroeger (singer)
52 - Jonny Lee Miller (actor)
53 - Jay Harrington (actor)
67 - Kevin Eubanks (musician)
68 - John Roberts (news correspondent)
73 - Beverly D'Angelo (actress)
79 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad (singer)
84 - Sam Waterston (actor)
92 - Petula Clark (singer)
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Today in Sports History - November 15
1960 - Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points in a game against the New York Knicks.
1964 - Mickey Wright shoots a 62, the lowest golf score for a female professional at the Tall City Open in Midland, Texas.
1992 - Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career.
1998 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) registered his fifth straight 100-yard running game. It was the 75th of his career.
2002 - Mike Modano of the Dallas Stars scored his 1,000th NHL point. He was only the 5th U.S.-born player to reach the milestone.
2005 - Major League Baseball players and owners agreed to tougher penalties for steroid use for the next season. The new rules called for a 50 game suspension for a first offense, 100 games for the second, a lifetime ban for a third, plus testing for amphetamines.
2017 - Three basketball players from UCLAbia were arrested and detained in China on charges of shoplifting. (They were ultimately released on request from President Donald Trump.)
2018 - LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers passes Wilt Chamberlain in to fifth place on the NBA's career scoring list.
2020 - American Dustin Johnson wins the Masters which had been moved from its traditional spring playing date due to COVID.