On Nov. 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation.

In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado.

In 1959, four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home.

In 2012, the Justice Department announced that BP had agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and pay a record $4.5 billion.

In 2019, Roger Stone, an ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted of all seven counts in a federal indictment. The president commuted Stone’s 40-month sentence days before reporting to prison.

In 2022, the world population reached 8 billion, based on United Nations projections.