On This Day, November 15: Articles of Confederation, Sherman's March and the Birth of Xbox

On November 15, 1777, after 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress, meeting at York, Pennsylvania, approved the Articles of Confederation, America's first constitutional framework and a precursor to the U.S. Constitution. On the same date in 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spotted a distant peak near the Colorado foothills of the Rockies, the mountain later named Pikes Peak in his honor.

On November 15, 1864, during the Civil War, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman left Atlanta and began his famous March to the Sea toward Savannah, Georgia. On November 15, 1920, the League of Nations held its first Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, with 41 member states gathered, an early attempt at a postwar international order.

In culture and technology, Elvis Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender, which premiered at New York's Paramount Theater on November 15, 1956. Intel released the 4004, the first commercial single-chip microprocessor, on November 15, 1971, and Microsoft launched the original Xbox in North America on November 15, 2001. (Source: History)

Source: History

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Photo: 自 Pikes Peak 望向 Colorado Springs（资料图），John Doe 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，Wikimedia Commons / Colorado Springs from Pikes Peak (file photo), John Doe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons