HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Thursday, November 15, the 319th day of 2018. There are 46 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program’s final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. 1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. 1971 – Intel releases the world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. 2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new sevenmember Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.