1776 – British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.

1885 – Canadian rebel Louis Riel was executed for high treason.

1907 – Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state. 

1915 – Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year.

1933 – The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations for the first time. 

1952 – In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.

1957 – Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns) set an NFL season rushing record of 1163 yards after only eight games.

1966 – Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.

1969 – The U.S. Army announced that several had been charged with massacre and the subsequent cover-up in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. 

1973 – Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on an 84-day mission. 

1973 – U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law. 

1981 – A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research.

1982 – An agreement was announced on the 57th day of a strike by National Football League (NFL) players.

1985 – Colonel Oliver North was put in charge of the shipment of HAWK anti-aircraft missiles to Iran.

1988 – Estonia’s parliament declared that the Baltic republic “sovereign,” but stopped short of complete independence.

1994 – Major League Soccer announced that it would start its inaugural season in 1996.

1997 – China released Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident from jail for medical reasons. He had been incarcerated for almost 18 years.

1998 – In Burlington, WIsconsin, five high school students, aged 15 to 16, were arrested in an alleged plot to kill a carefully selected group of teachers and students.

1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court said that union members could file discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts require arbitration. 

1999 – Chrica Adams, the pregnant girlfriend of Rae Carruth, was shot four times in her car. She died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived. Carruth was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the murder.

2000 – Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Communist Vietnam.

2001 – The movie “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” opened in the U.S. and U.K.

2004 – A NASA unmanned “scramjet” (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.

Mamie Snow, a mentally disabled white woman from Waukegan, Illinois, claims that James Montgomery, a Black veteran and factory worker, raped her. Montgomery, who was promptly thrown in jail, spent more than 25 years in prison before his conviction was overturned and he was …read more

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Accused of rape, James Montgomery’s struggle for justice begins

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By The Learning Network, November 15, 2011, 4:09 am November 15, 2011

The event in Washington, believed to be the largest antiwar protest ever held in the United States, drew hundreds of thousands on Nov. 15, 1969. Historic Headlines. Learn about key events in history and their connections to today.

On Nov. 15, 1969, the Vietnam Moratorium Committee staged what is believed to be the largest antiwar protest in United States history when as many as half a million people attended a mostly peaceful demonstration in Washington. Smaller demonstrations were held in a number of cities and towns across the country.

The rally featured speeches by antiwar politicians, including Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern and Charles Goodell, the only Republican to take part. It also included musical performances by Peter, Paul and Mary, Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger, who led the crowd in the singing of John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.”

The New York Times described the crowd as “predominantly youthful” and “mass gathering of the moderate and radical Left … old-style liberals; Communists and pacifists and a sprinkling of the violent New Left.”

Though a small section of the crowd began protesting violently near the end of the demonstration, the day was mainly peaceful; “The predominant event of the day was that of a great and peaceful army of dissent moving through the city,” The Times reported. This stood in contrast to many of the violent antiwar protests of previous years, like the rioting at the 1968 Democratic Convention.

President Richard M. Nixon had promised in his 1968 campaign to begin a troop withdrawal but 10 months after taking office had yet to take action. He was unmoved by the demonstration, later claiming that he watched sports on television in the White House as it happened.

The antiwar movement continued to gain support in 1970, particularly after the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four antiwar protesters at Kent State University. Antiwar sentiment continued to grow and the United States ended its official involvement in the war in 1973.

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Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Arthur Lewis from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He was the first Black recipient in a category other than peace.

 

 

Resource: blackhistorydaily.com

 

 

 

The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777, but the states did not ratify them until March 1, 1781.

The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. Once peace removed the rationale of wartime necessity the weaknesses of the 1777 Articles of Confederation became increasingly apparent. Divisions among the states and even local rebellions threatened to destroy the fruits of the Revolution. Nationalists, led by James Madison, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Wilson, almost immediately began working toward strengthening the federal government. They turned a series of regional commercial conferences into a national constitutional convention at Philadelphia in 1787.

“An opinion begins to prevail that a general convention for revising the articles of Confederation would be expedient.”
John Jay to George Washington, March 16, 1786

Resource: loc.gov