On This Day:
Saturday November 15, 2014 This is the 319th day of the year, with 46 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: bananas Bananas don't grow naturally in the wild. We invented them. Thousands of years ago, wild bananas were like big bean pods filled with seeds. Scientists learned how to breed pulpy seedless bananas. Only sweet bananas are eaten raw; other bananas are picked green and made into food by cooking. More sweet bananas are eaten each day in the U.S. than any other fruit. Those tiny edible black things are indeed the seeds of the banana.
Holidays Feast day of St. Leopold of Austria, Saints Abibus, Gurias, and Samonas, St. Fintan of Rheinau, St. Malo or Machutus, St. Albert the Great, and St. Desiderius or Didier of Cahors.
Brazil: Republic Day.
Japan: Shichi-Go-San.
Belgium: Dynasty Day.
Events 1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States of America, after 16 months of debate.
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike sighted (but did not climb) the mountain now known as "Pike's Peak."
1837 - Isaac Pitman's system of shorthand was published, under the title "Stenographic Sound-Hand."
1881 - The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded.
1889 - Pedro II, Brazil's second and last emperor, was forced to abdicate the throne and a democratic republic is proclaimed.
1922 - Dr. Alexis Carrel reported the discovery of white corpuscles.
1926 - National Broadcasting Company (NBC) debuted its 24-station radio network.
1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1940 - The first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty in the United States under peacetime conscription.
1960 - The first submarine with nuclear missiles, USS George Washington, went to sea.
1968 - RMS Queen Elizabeth, in its day the largest ocean liner ever built, retired from service.
1969 - A quarter of a million anti-Vietnam War demonstrators staged a peaceful march in Washington, D.C.
1997 - The all-female English pop group the Spice Girls released the album Spiceworld.
2002 - Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader.
Births 1708 - William Pitt, the Elder, British statesman.
1738 - William Herschel, English astronomer.
1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist.
1891 - W. Averell Harriman, American diplomat.
1934 - Petula Clark, British singer and actress.
1957 - Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist who has been the leader of the Tonight Show band since 1995.
Deaths 1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor and member of the celebrated Barrymore family of actors.
1958 - Tyrone Power, American film actor.
1978 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist.
1998 - Kwame Ture, civil rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael.
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