This Week in History Part 1 Nov. 12-18

Nov. 12, 1931 – Abbey Road Studios, later made famous by the Beatles, opens in London.

Nov. 12, 1954 – The immigration reception center at Ellis Island, New York, which processed more than 12 million immigrants, is closed

Nov. 14, 1889 – American journalist Nellie Bly begins her around-the-world race against the fictional record of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days (she made it in slightly more than 72 days)

Nov. 14, 1960 – Six-year-old Ruby Bridges becomes the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate schools in the American South

Nov. 15, 1864 – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia