On This Day in History
Today is Friday, Nov. 15, the 320th day of 2024 with 46 to follow.
The moon is full. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include Pope Nicholas V in 1397; astronomer William Herschel in 1738; artist Georgia O'Keeffe in 1887; German Gen. Erwin Rommel in 1891; TV personality/retired Judge Joseph Wapner in 1919; actor Edward Asner in 1929; writer J.G. Ballard in 1930; musician Petula Clark in 1932 (age 92); Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 1935 (age 89); actor Yaphet Kotto in 1939; actor Sam Waterston in 1940 (age 84); musician Daniel Barenboim in 1942 (age 82); musician Anni-Frid Lyngstad (ABBA) in 1945 (age 79); fashion designer Jimmy Choo in 1948 (age 76); actor Beverly D'Angelo in 1951 (age 73); wrestler Randy Savage in 1952; musician Kevin Eubanks in 1957 (age 67); actor Rachel True in 1966 (age 58); musician E-40, born Earl Tywone Stevens Sr., in 1967 (age 57); actor Jonny Lee Miller in 1972 (age 52); musician Chad Kroeger (Nickelback) in 1974 (age 50); musician Jesse Sandoval (Shins) in 1974 (age 50); actor Sean Murray in 1977 (age 47); golf legend Lorena Ochoa in 1981 (age 43); actor Sophia Di Martino in 1983 (age 41); actor Winston Duke in 1986 (age 38); actor Shailene Woodley in 1991 (age 33).
On this date in history:
In 1791, Georgetown University, in what is now Washington, D.C., opened as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States.
In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea begins with the burning of Atlanta.
In 1920, the first assembly of the League of Nations was called to order in Geneva, Switzerland. The league dissolved after 1946 and was replaced by the United Nations.
In 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romany be placed in Nazi concentration camps. Up to 500,000 Romany died during the Holocaust.
In 1969, more than 500,000 people demonstrated in Washington against the Vietnam War .
In 1984, 5-week-old Baby Fae died after her body rejected the baboon heart she had lived with for 20 days at California's Loma Linda University Medical Center.
In 1987, 27 people were killed in the crash of a Continental Airlines DC-9 jet taking off from Denver in a snowstorm.
In 2004, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell submitted his resignation .
In 2007, Cyclone Sidr , with winds of more than 150 mph, slammed into the southwestern Bangladesh coast, killing more than 3,400 people. Tens of thousands were injured and 1 million people were homeless.
In 2010, a five-story building , in New Delhi that housed migrant workers collapsed killing at least 58 people, with 65 others hurt and many more feared buried in debris.
In 2017, Leonardo's da Vinci's Salvator Mundi sold for a world-record $450 million in a Christie's New York auction.
In 2020, SpaceX and NASA made history as four astronauts launched to the International Space Station, the first via a Falcon 9 rocket.
In 2022, the world population reached 8 billion people , a milestone despite the population growing at its slowest rate since 1950.
A thought for the day: "I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing." - American painter Georgia O'Keeffe
