On Nov. 15, 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
On Nov. 15, 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe, one of America's foremost 20th-century painters, was born. Following her death on March 6, 1986, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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On Nov. 15, 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
On This Date
| 1777 | The Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States. |
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| 1926 | The National Broadcasting Co. debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. |
| 1939 | The cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C. |
| 1940 | The first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription. |
| 1959 | A farmer, his wife and two of their children were found murdered in their home in Holcomb, Kansas – a crime that was the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood." |
| 1984 | An infant who had received a baboon's heart to replace her own congenitally deformed one died at a California medical center three weeks after the transplant. |
| 1985 | Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland. |
| 1988 | The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. |
| 1993 | A judge in Mineola, N.Y., sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, who shot and wounded Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo. |
| 2002 | Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader. |
| 2007 | Baseball home run king Barry Bonds was indicted on charges related to grand jury testimony during which he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. (Bonds was later convicted of obstruction of justice; his lawyers are appealing.) |
| 2011 | Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City, evicting hundreds of protesters and then demolishing the tent city. |
Historic Birthdays
Georgia O'Keeffe
11/15/1887 - 3/6/1986
American painter. Go to obituary »
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William Pitt the elder 11/15/1708 - 5/11/1778 English statesman |
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| 83 |
William Herschel 11/15/1738 - 8/25/1822 German-born English astronomer |
| 75 |
Jerome Bonaparte 11/15/1784 - 6/24/1860 French King of Westphalia and marshal of France |
| 70 |
James O'Neill 11/15/1849 - 8/10/1920 Irish-born American actor |
| 78 |
Franklin Pierce Adams 11/15/1881 - 3/23/1960 American newspaper columnist, radio commentator and poet |
| 82 |
Felix Frankfurter 11/15/1882 - 2/22/1965 American legal scholar and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1939-62) |
| 84 |
Marianne Moore 11/15/1887 - 2/5/1972 American poet |
| 94 |
Averell Harriman 11/15/1891 - 7/26/1986 American statesman |
| 52 |
Erwin Rommel 11/15/1891 - 10/14/1944 German field marshal |
| 83 |
Curtis LeMay 11/15/1906 - 10/1/1990 American airforce officer |