November 15: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
2. 1791 - The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
3. 1859 - The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
4. 1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
5. 1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
6. 1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
7. 1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
8. 1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
9. 1988 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
10. 1990 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
11. Famous Birthdays: Louis Bertrand Castel (French mathematician), William Herschel (German-born astronomer), Emil Racovita (Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica), August Krogh (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate), Georgia O'Keeffe (American painter)

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