Today is Tuesday, November 15, the 320th day of 2016. There are 46 days left in the year.
1492 — Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1660 — First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New York
1715 — Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to the Netherlands
1763 — Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1777 — Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
1791 — First Catholic college in U.S., Georgetown, opens
1806 — First U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Cabinet, publishes first issue
1806 — Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
1824 — Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)