November 15 is:
Clean Your Refrigerator Day
America Recycles Day
National Bundt Cake Day The shape of the Bundt pan was originally inspired by the traditional European fruit cake known as Gugelhupf.
National Philanthropy Day
National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day, a cookie spiced with cinnamon, cloves, allspice and/or nutmeg and filled with raisins, nuts and dates.
The Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation in 1777, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States. The Articles of Confederation (full title: the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union) was the first governing document of the United States of America. After months of debate, it was adopted by the Second Continental Congress, under President Henry Laurens, on November 15, 1777. It served as a non-binding plan of government but did not become effective (law) until it had been ratified by all 13 states. The final state (Maryland) signed, and it was ratified into law, on March 1, 1781 in York, Pennsylvania.
In 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike saw a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Originally called “El Capitán” by Spanish explorers, the mountain was renamed Pike’s Peak. The Arapaho name is heey-otoyoo’ (“long mountain”).)
In Washington, D.C. on November 15, 1939, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. It was completed in 1943. The bronze statue of Jefferson was added in 1947.
1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”.
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March Against Death”.
1969 Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy’s Hamburger restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.