Today in History: November 15, Trump friend and ally Roger Stone convicted

Today is Friday, Nov. 15, the 320th time of 2024. There are 46 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Nov. 15, 2019, Roger Stone, a longtime person and state of President Donald Trump, was convicted of each 7 counts successful a national indictment accusing him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witnesser and obstructing the House probe of whether Trump coordinated with Russia during the 2016 campaign. The president commuted Stone’s 40-month condemnation days earlier helium was to study to prison.

Also connected this date:

In 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation.

In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountaintop present known arsenic Pikes Peak successful present-day Colorado.

In 1864, precocious successful the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta; the run ended with the seizure of Savannah, Georgia connected Dec. 21.

In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial successful Washington, D.C.

In 1959, 4 members of the Clutter household of Holcomb, Kansas, were recovered murdered successful their home. (Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were aboriginal convicted of the killings and hanged successful a lawsuit made celebrated by the Truman Capote publication “In Cold Blood.”)

In 1966, the formation of Gemini 12, the last ngo of the Gemini program, ended successfully arsenic astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely successful the Atlantic aft spending 4 days successful orbit.

In 1969, a 4th of a cardinal protesters staged a peaceful objection successful Washington against the Vietnam War.

In 2012, the Justice Department announced that BP had agreed to plead blameworthy to a raft of charges successful the 2010 Deepwater Horizon lipid spill and wage a grounds $4.5 billion, including astir $1.3 cardinal successful transgression fines.

In 2022, the satellite colonisation reached 8 billion, based connected United Nations projections.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Singer Petula Clark is 92.
• Actor Sam Waterston is 84.
• Classical conductor Daniel Barenboim is 82.
• Pop vocalist Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad (ABBA) is 79.
• Fashion decorator Jimmy Choo is 76.
• Actor Beverly D’Angelo is 73.
• News analogous John Roberts is 68.
• Former “Tonight Show” bandleader Kevin Eubanks is 67.
• Actor Jonny Lee Miller is 52.
• Actor Sean Murray is 47.
• Golf Hall of Famer Lorena Ochoa is 43.
• Actor Shailene Woodley is 33.
• NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns is 29.