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November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in Leap Year s) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 46 days remaining.
Events
- defeated by Oswiu Of Northumbria .
- 1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal
- 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco , Peru .
- approves the Articles Of Confederation .
- 1791 - The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University , opens its doors.
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 1909 - The Milton Hershey School is founded in Hershey, Pennsylvania .
- 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 .
- 1941 - SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to Concentration Camp s of all Homosexuals in Germany , with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
- ends.
- 1943 - German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jew s and placed in Concentration Camp s." (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.
- 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi .
- 1956 - The first film starring Elvis Presley , '' Love Me Tender '', opens.
- 1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family Murder ed at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas .
- 1960 - The Polaris Missile is test launched.
- 1961 - Roger Maris is voted the American League MVP ( Baseball )
- splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean .
- 1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st Flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft, and is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
- collides with the American submarine USS ''Gato'' in the Barents Sea .
- 1969 - , 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.
- 1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Dublin, Ohio.
- 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 Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington , forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
- 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 - is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council .
- 1989 - Sachin Tendulkar makes his Test Cricket debut playing for India against Pakistan .
- launches with flight STS-38 .
- 1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli , who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award , did not sing themselves on their album.
- 1996 - United Nations Resolution 1080 authorises Canada to lead the Multi National Force in Zaire .
- 2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
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- 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party Of China .
- 2003 - The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on November 20 .
- 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 .
Births
- 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 Americas (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 )
- 1757 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (d. 1830 )
- 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 )
- 1874 - August Krogh , Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1949 )
- 1879 - Lewis Stone , American actor (d. 1953 )
- 1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams , American newspaper columnist (d. 1960 )
- 1882 - Felix Frankfurter , U.S. 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 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Of Russia (d. 1918 )
- 1895 - Antoni Słonimski , Polish writer (d. 1976 )
- 1897 - Aneurin Bevan , British politician (d. 1960 )
- 1897 - Sacheverell Sitwell , English writer (d. 1988 )
- 1899 - Avdy Andresson , Estonian Minister of War in Exile (d. 1990 )
- 1899 - Iskander Mirza , first President Of Pakistan (d. 1969 )
- 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 )
- 1919 - Joseph Wapner , U.S. jurist
- 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
- 1931 - Mwai Kibaki , Kenya's third president
- 1932 - Petula Clark , English singer
- 1932 - Clyde McPhatter , American singer (d. 1972 )
- 1936 - Wolf Biermann , German writer
- 1937 - Little Willie John , American singer (d. 1968 )
- 1937 - Yaphet Kotto , American actor
- 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
- 1952 - Randy Savage , American professional wrestler
- 1954 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski , President Of Poland
- 1956 - Michael Hampton , American 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
- 1979 - Josemi , Spanish footballer
- 1980 - Ace Young , American singer
- 1986 - Sania Mirza , Indian tennis player
- 1988 - Zena Grey , American actress
Deaths
- 655 - Penda , King of Mercia
- 1028 - Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (b. 960 )
- 1136 - Margrave Leopold III Of Austria (b. 1073 )
- 1280 - Albertus Magnus , German theologian
- 1463 - Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini , Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples
- 1579 - Ferenc Dávid , Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510 )
- 1628 - Roque Gonzales , Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576 )
- 1630 - Johannes Kepler , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571 )
- 1670 - Comenius , Czech writer (b. 1592 )
- 1691 - Aelbert Cuyp , Dutch painter (b. 1620 )
- 1706 - Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683 )
- 1712 - James Douglas, 4th Duke Of Hamilton , Scottish nationalist (b. 1658 )
- 1712 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun , English politician (b. 1675 )
- 1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer (b. 1714 )
- 1794 - John Witherspoon , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723 )
- 1795 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe Van Loo , French painter (b. 1719 )
- 1853 - Queen Maria II Of Portugal (b. 1819 )
- 1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi , Chinese ruler (b. 1835 )
- 1910 - Wilhelm Raabe , German writer (b. 1831 )
- 1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846 )
- 1917 - Émile Durkheim , French sociologist (b. 1858 )
- 1919 - Alfred Werner , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866 )
- 1954 - Lionel Barrymore , American actor (b. 1878 )
- 1958 - Tyrone Power , American actor (b. 1914 )
- 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson , Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869 )
- 1961 - Elsie Ferguson , American actress (b. 1883 )
- 1963 - Fritz Reiner , Hungarian conductor (b. 1988 )
- 1965 - Dawn Powell , American poet (b. 1896 )
- 1967 - Michael J. Adams , American test pilot (b. 1930 )
- 1969 - Iskander Mirza , first President Of Pakistan (b. 1899 )
- 1971 - Rudolf Abel , Soviet spy (b. 1903 )
- 1971 - Edie Sedgwick , American actress and model (b. 1943 )
- 1978 - Margaret Mead , American anthropologist (b. 1901 )
- 1983 - John Le Mesurier , British actor (b. 1912 )
- 1990 - Alydar , American racehorse (b. 1975 )
- 1994 - Elizabeth George Speare , award-winning American children's author (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Alger Hiss , American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904 )
- 1998 - Stokely Carmichael , American civil rights activist (b. 1941 )
- 2002 - Eddie Bracken , American actor (b. 1915 )
- 2002 - Myra Hindley , English murderer (b. 1942 )
- 2003 - Ray Lewis , Canadian athlete (b. 1910 )
- 2003 - Dorothy Loudon , American actress (b. 1933 )
- 2003 - Laurence Tisch , American businessman (b. 1923 )
- 2004 - Elmer L. Andersen , Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909 )
- 2004 - John Morgan , Canadian comedian (b. 1930 )
- 2005 - Dr. Adrian Rogers , American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931 )
- 2005 - Arto Salminen , Finnish writer (b. 1959 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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