November 15
November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 46 days remaining.
Events
655 - Battle of Winwaed : Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria .
1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal
1777 - American Revolutionary War : After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation .
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 British Commonwealth history.
1956 - The first film starring Elvis Presley (Love Me Tender 1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.
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.
1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor , the 4004 .
1976 - René Lévesque & the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor 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 .
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 .
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 now legendary game Halo: Combat Evolved .
2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China .
2004 - Metroid Prime 2 is released, continuing the long line of Metroid games.
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 )
1559 - Archduke Albert of Austria , governor of the Low Countries
1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham , English politician (d. 1778 )
1731 - William Cowper , English poet (d. 1800 )
1738 - William Herschel , astronomer (d. 1822 )
1741 - Johann Kaspar Lavater , philosopher (d. 1801 )
1784 - Jerome Bonaparte , French King of Westphalia (d. 1860 )
1859 - Christopher Hornsrud , Norweigen Prime Minister (d.1960 )
1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann , German dramatist; recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1946 )
1879 - Lewis Stone , actor (d. 1953 )
1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams , American newspaper columnist (d. 1960)
1882 - Felix Frankfurter , United States Supreme Court justice (1939 -1962 ) (d. 1965 )
1887 - Marianne Moore , American poet (d. 1972 )
1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe , 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 poet and writer (d. 1976 )
1899 - Iskander Mirza , first President of Pakistan (d. 1969 )
1905 - Mantovani , composer, musician, music arranger (d. 1980 )
1906 - Curtis LeMay , United States Air Force general, candidate for Vice President of the United States (d. 1990 )
1925 - Howard Baker , former Senator from Tennessee , former White House Chief of Staff
1925 - Heinz Piontek , writer
1929 - Ed Asner , actor
1930 - J. G. Ballard , science fiction author
1931 - Pascal Lissouba , Republic of the Congo politician
1932 - Petula Clark , singer
1933 - Clyde McPhatter , singer (d. 1972 )
1936 - Wolf Biermann , writer
1937 - Yaphet Kotto , actor (Homicide: Life on the Street 1937 - Little Willie John , singer
1940 - Sam Waterston , actor (Law & Order 1942 - Daniel Barenboim , pianist, conductor
1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Norwegian singer, ABBA member
1947 - Bill Richardson , governor of New Mexico
1953 - Dave Ethans , Irish businessman
1954 - Beverly D'Angelo , actress
1954 - Aleksander Kwasniewski , President of Poland
1956 - Michael Hampton , guitarist (P Funk )
1957 - Kevin Eubanks , musician
1965 - Nigel Bond , English snooker player
1968 - Ol' Dirty Bastard , rapper (d. 2004 )
1988 - Zena Grey , actress
Deaths
655 - Penda , king of Mercia
1028 - Emperor Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire (b. 960 )
1136 - Leopold III of Austria , Patron saint of Austria
1280 - Albertus Magnus , German philosopher
1630 - Johannes Kepler , astrologer , astronomer and mathematician
1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck , composer
1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi , de facto Chinese ruler from 1868 to 1908
1910 - Wilhelm Raabe , German writer
1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1905 (b. 1846 )
1954 - Lionel Barrymore , actor
1958 - Tyrone Power , actor
1961 - Elsie Ferguson , stage star of Broadway & silent screen star (b.1883 )
1963 - Fritz Reiner , Hungarian conductor (b. 1988 )
1965 - Allen Du Mont , television pioneer
1965 - Dawn Powell , American poet
1969 - Iskander Mirza , first President of Pakistan
1971 - Edie Sedgwick actor, model
1978 - Margaret Mead , anthropologist, writer, lecturer
1983 - John Le Mesurier , British actor (b. 1912 )
1996 - Alger Hiss , United States State Department official, spy
1998 - Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), U.S. civil rights activist
2002 - Eddie Bracken , actor
2002 - Myra Hindley , Moors murderer
2003 - Ray Lewis , first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist
2004 - John Morgan , Canadian comedian
2004 - Elmer L. Andersen , former governor of Minnesota .
Holidays and observances
External links
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