Today in History: November 12, Ellis Island closes its doors

Nowadays is Wednesday Nov the th day of There are days left in the year In the current era in history On Nov Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center More than million immigrants arrived in the United States via Ellis Island between and Also on this date In Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party Related Articles A happy circumstance Bob Ross paintings sell for more than K to help masses TV stations Schumer faces criticism as shutdown nears end but his job appears safe Supreme Court extends order blocking full SNAP payments with shutdown potentially near an end As infant botulism outbreak expands ByHeart recalls all baby formula sold across US As Thanksgiving nears travelers likely will see continuing flight delays even if shutdown ends In the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened as President Franklin D Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in Washington D C and gave the green light to traffic In American playwright Eugene O Neill received the Nobel Prize in Literature In Japanese general and former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal he was executed in December In the Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan now Bangladesh The deadliest tropical cyclone on record claimed the lives of an estimated - people In American Airlines Flight en passage to the Dominican Republic crashed after takeoff from New York s John F Kennedy International Airport killing all people on board and five people on the ground In Venice saw its worst flooding in more than years with the water reaching feet meters above average sea level damage was estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars In a judge in Los Angeles ended the conservatorship that had controlled the life and money of pop star Britney Spears for nearly years In a federal judge sentenced Jack Teixeira a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to years in prison for leaking classified military documents about the war in Ukraine Teixeira had pleaded guilty to willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act nearly a year after his arrest in the greater part consequential national safety breach in years At present s Birthdays Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn is Rock musician Booker T Jones is Sportscaster Al Michaels is Singer-songwriter Neil Young is Author Tracy Kidder is Democratic Sen Jack Reed of Rhode Island is Actor Megan Mullally is Olympic gold medal gymnast Nadia Com neci is Olympic gold medal swimmer Jason Lezak is Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is Actor Ryan Gosling is Actor Anne Hathaway is Golfer Jason Day is NBA point guard Russell Westbrook is