History for November 15

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William Pitt the Elder 1708 - Known as the Great Commoner, 1st Earl of Chatham, Georgia O'Keeffe 1887, Joseph Wapner 1919, Ed Asner 1929 


Petula Clark 1932, Frida Lyngstad (ABBA) 1945, Beverly D'Angelo 1954 


1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak. 


1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War. 


1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid. 


1939 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. 


1940 - The first 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under peacetime conscription. 


1969 - In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War. 


1992 - Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career. 


1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.