Once Upon A Time – November 15 – 2020 – British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton clinches 4th straight, record equalling 7th F1 World Drivers

1884 European Colonization and trade in Africa is officially regulated at the international Berlin Conference, formalizing European powers “Scramble for Africa”

1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade

1948 Mackenzie King retires after 22 years as Prime Minister of Canada

1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium Demonstration across the United States

Historical Events Today

Today In Film & Tv

1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)

Today In Music

1986 Beastie Boys release their debut album “Licensed to Ill” – 1st No. 1 rap album on Billboard charts

Today In Sport

1964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro at the Tall City Open, Midland, Texas

2020 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton clinches 4th straight and record equalling 7th F1 World Drivers C’ship by winning Turkish GP at Intercity Istanbul Park, Tuzla

2017 Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “Salvator Mundi” sells for $450.3 million at auction in New York, world record price for any artwork

1979 In Parliament Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, exposed as 4th man in Soviet spy ring. He was then stripped of his knighthood and fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge

Famous Weddings

1986 Golfer Byron Nelson (74) weds advertising copy writer Peggy Simmons (42)

1997 TV host and actor William Shatner (66) weds former Ford model Nerine Kidd (38) in Pasadena, California; widowed in 1999

2005 Emperor Akihito’s only daughter Princess Sayako (36) gives up her imperial title to wed Yoshiki Kuroda (40) at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan