TODAY IN HISTORY

On Nov. 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation.

In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountaintop now known as Pikes

Peak in present-day Colorado.

In 1937, at the U.S. Capitol, members of the House and Senate met in air-conditioned chambers for the first time.

In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

In 1959, four members

of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home.

In 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War.

In 2003, two Black Hawk helicopters collided and crashed in Iraq; 17 U.S. troops were killed.