Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln.

The Supreme Court delivered significant victories for President Donald Trump in its term that ended Friday.

Today is Thursday, Nov. 12, the 317th day of 2020. On Nov. 12, 1975, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, ending a record 36-year term. In 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal. In 1977, the city of New Orleans elected its first Black mayor, Ernest “Dutch” Morial, the winner of a runoff.