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Today in History: Tuesday, November\u00a0 15, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Nov. 15, 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
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1777<\/td>\nThe Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1926<\/td>\nThe National Broadcasting Co. debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1939<\/td>\nThe cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1940<\/td>\nThe first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1959<\/td>\nA farmer, his wife and two of their children were found murdered in their home in Holcomb, Kansas \u2013 a crime that was the subject of Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel “In Cold Blood.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\nAn 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\nBritain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>\nThe Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nA 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nHu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China’s Communist Party leader.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nBaseball 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.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nHundreds 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Actor Sam Waterston (“Law and Order”) turns 76 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Joseph Wapner<\/td>\nTV personality (“The People’s Court”)<\/td>\n97<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Petula Clark<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jack Burns<\/td>\nComedian<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bill Richardson<\/td>\nFormer governor of New Mexico<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beverly D’Angelo<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kevin Eubanks<\/td>\nJazz musician<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jack Ingram<\/td>\nCountry singer<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chad Kroeger<\/td>\nRock musician (Nickelback)<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actor Ed Asner (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Lou Grant”) turns 87 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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