November 15

Categories: Days

November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 1316 to 1899
- 2.2 1900 to 1999
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal
1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1791 - The first U.S Catholic college,Georgetown University,opens its doors.
1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).
1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.
1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1939 - In Washington, DC, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1940 - The Warsaw Ghetto, with a population of 400,000 Jews, is sealed off from the outside world by the Nazis.
1941 - SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends.
1943 - German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." (see Porajmos)
1948 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
1956 - The first film starring Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender, opens.
1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.
1961 - Roger Maris is voted the American League MVP (baseball)
1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.
1970 the Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon
1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 - René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
1978 - A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 - A package from the Unabomber explodes in the mail on its way to Washington.
1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
1985 - A research assistant is injured as a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 - The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 - Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.
1988 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1989 - Sachin Tendulkar makes his Test cricket debut playing for India against Pakistan.
1990 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing themselves on their album.
2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
2001 - The Microsoft Xbox video game console launches in North America, along with the game Halo: Combat Evolved.
2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
2004 - New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey leaves office, three months after resigning due to a gay extra-marital affair. State Senator Richard Codey takes over as interim governor.
2005 - DVD release of SpongeBob SquarePants TV movie, Where's Gary?

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Births

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1316 to 1899

1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316)
1397 - Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
1498 - Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
1511 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
1556 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)
1559 - Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (d. 1621)
1607 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
1660 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
1661 - Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in America (d. 1743)
1692 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician (d. 1778)
1731 - William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
1738 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
1741 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
1784 - Jerome Bonaparte, French King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
1859 - Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d.1960)
1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946)
1879 - Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953)
1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (d. 1960)
1882 - Felix Frankfurter, United States Supreme Court Justice (d. 1965)
1886 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
1887 - Marianne Moore, American poet (d. 1972)
1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
1889 - King Manuel II of Portugal (d. 1932)
1890 - Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
1891 - Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician (d. 1986)
1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1895 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
1897 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
1897 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (d. 1988)
1899 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)

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1900 to 1999

1903 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1974)
1905 - Mantovani, Italian-born composer, musician, and arranger (d. 1980)
1906 - Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general (d. 1990)
1907 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German army colonel who plotted to assassinate Hitler (d. 1944)
1913 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and resistance fighter (d. 2005)
1925 - Howard Baker, U.S. Senator from Tennessee and White House Chief of Staff
1925 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
1929 - Ed Asner, American actor
1930 - J. G. Ballard, British author
1931 - Pascal Lissouba, Republic of the Congo politician
1932 - Petula Clark, English singer
1933 - Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
1936 - Wolf Biermann, German writer
1937 - Yaphet Kotto, American actor
1937 - Little Willie John, American singer (d. 1968)
1940 - Sam Waterston, American actor
1942 - Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born pianist and conductor
1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian singer (ABBA)
1947 - Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico
1951 - Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
1954 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland
1956 - Michael Hampton, guitarist (Funkadelic)
1957 - Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
1963 - Benny Elias, Australian rugby player
1965 - Nigel Bond, English snooker player
1968 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
1969 - Shane Mack, American politician
1970 - Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer
1983 - Tom Acfield, English philosopher
1986 - Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
1988 - Zena Grey, American actress