Today is Saturday, November 15, the 319th day of 2025. There are 46 days left in the year.
**Today in History:**
– **1777:** The Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, establishing the first constitution of the United States.
– **1806:** Explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountain now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado.
– **1864:** Late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began their famous “March to the Sea” from Atlanta. This campaign ended with the capture of Savannah, Georgia, on December 21.
– **1939:** President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
– **1959:** Four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home. Two men were later convicted of the killings and hanged in a case made famous by Truman Capote’s book *In Cold Blood*.
– **1966:** The spaceflight of Gemini 12, the final mission of NASA’s Gemini program, ended successfully. 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, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
– **2012:** The Justice Department announced that BP had agreed to plead guilty to multiple charges in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The company agreed to 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 on all seven counts in a federal indictment accusing him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness, and obstructing the House investigation into whether Trump coordinated with Russia during the 2016 campaign. President Trump commuted Stone’s 40-month sentence days before Stone was to report to prison and fully pardoned him in December 2020.
– **2022:** The world population reached 8 billion, based on United Nations projections.
**Today’s Birthdays:**
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