Immediately is Saturday, Nov. 15, the 319th day of 2025. There are 46 days left within the 12 months.
Immediately in historical past:
On Nov. 15,1969, 1 / 4 of one million protesters staged a peaceable demonstration in Washington in opposition to the Vietnam Conflict.
Additionally on this date:
In 1777, the Second Continental Congress authorised the Articles of Confederation.
In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountain now often called Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado.
In 1864, late within the U.S. Civil Conflict, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman started their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta; the marketing campaign ended with the seize of Savannah, Georgia, on Dec. 21.
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
In 1959, 4 members of the Muddle household of Holcomb, Kansas, had been discovered murdered of their residence. (Two males had been later convicted of the killings and hanged in a case made well-known by the Truman Capote e book “In Cold Blood.”)
In 1966, the spaceflight of Gemini 12, the ultimate mission of NASA’s Gemini program, ended efficiently as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely within the Atlantic after spending 4 days in orbit.
In 2012, the Justice Division introduced that BP had agreed to plead responsible to a raft of costs within the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and pay a file $4.5 billion, together with practically $1.3 billion in legal fines.
In 2019, Roger Stone, a longtime pal and ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted of all seven counts in a federal indictment accusing him of mendacity to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the Home investigation into whether or not Trump coordinated with Russia throughout the 2016 marketing campaign. The president commuted Stone’s 40-month sentence days earlier than Stone to report back to jail and absolutely pardoned him in December 2020.
In 2022, the world inhabitants reached 8 billion, based mostly on United Nations projections.
Immediately’s Birthdays:
Singer Petula Clark is 93.
Actor Sam Waterston is 85.
Classical conductor Daniel Barenboim is 83.
Pop singer Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad (ABBA) is 80.
Designer Jimmy Choo is 77.
Actor Beverly D’Angelo is 74.
Former “Tonight Show” bandleader Kevin Eubanks is 68.
Actor Jonny Lee Miller is 53.
Actor Sean Murray is 48.
Golf Corridor of Famer Lorena Ochoa is 44.
Actor Shailene Woodley is 34.
NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Cities is 30.
