DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Sunday, Nov. 15, the 320th day of 2020. There are 46 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1777: The Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation.
1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado.
1864: During the 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 on Dec. 21.
1935: The Commonwealth of the Philippines was established as its new president, Manuel L. Quezon, took office.
1937: At the U.S. Capitol, members of the House and Senate met in air-conditioned chambers for the first time.
1942: The naval Battle of Guadalcanal ended during World War II with a decisive U.S. victory over Japanese forces.
1958: Actor Tyrone Power, 44, died in Madrid, Spain, while filming “Solomon and Sheba.” (Power’s part was recast with Yul Brynner.)
1959: Four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home. (Ex-convicts 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: A quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in
Washington against the Vietnam War.
1974: The disaster movie “Earthquake” was released by Universal Pictures in “Sensurround,” which bombarded the audience with low-frequency sound waves during the quake scenes.
1984: Stephanie Fae Beauclair, the infant publicly known as “Baby Fae” who had received a baboon’s heart to replace her own congenitally deformed one, died at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California three weeks after the transplant.
2007: Baseball player Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs. (Bonds was later convicted on the obstruction of justice count; the conviction was overturned in 2015.)
Actor Ed Asner is 91. Singer Petula Clark is 88. Actor Yaphet Kotto (“Homicide: Life On the Street”) is 81. Singer Anni-frid Lyngstad of ABBA is 75. Actor Bob Gunton (TV’S “24,” film’s “The Shawshank Redemption”) is 75. Actor Beverly D’angelo (“National Lampoon’s Vacation”) is 69. News correspondent John Roberts is 64. Bandleader Kevin Eubanks (“The Tonight Show With Jay Leno”) is 63. Comedian Judy Gold is 58. Rapper E-40 is 53. Country singer Jack Ingram is 50. Actor Sydney Tamiia PoitierHeartsong (“Carter,” “Veronica Mars”) is 47. Singer Chad Kroeger of Nickelback is 46. Drummer Jesse Sandoval (The Shins) is 46. Rapper B.O.B is 32. Actor Shailene Woodley is 29.