Historical Events on November 15, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on November 15th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher. |
| 2016 | Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament. |
| 2013 | Sony releases the PlayStation 4 (PS4) game console. |
| 2012 | Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. |
| 2007 | Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans. |
| 2006 | Al Jazeera English launches worldwide. |
| 2003 | The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more. |
| 2002 | Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. |
| 2001 | Microsoft launches the Xbox game console. |
| 2000 | A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people. |
| 2000 | Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar. |
| 1994 | A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high. |
| 1990 | The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted. |
| 1988 | In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight. |
| 1988 | Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council. |
| 1988 | The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands. |
| 1987 | In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu. |
| 1985 | A research assistant is injured when 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. |
| 1983 | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey. |
| 1979 | A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. |
| 1978 | A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183. |
| 1976 | René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence. |
| 1971 | Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. |
| 1969 | Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. |
| 1969 | Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death". |
| 1968 | The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport. |
| 1967 | The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. |
| 1966 | Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1966 | Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Dallgow-Döberitz, East Germany, killing all three people on board. |
| 1965 | Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. |
| 1955 | The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened. |
| 1951 | Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 other resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial. |
| 1943 | The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". |
| 1942 | World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory. |
| 1939 | In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. |
| 1938 | Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. |
| 1933 | Thailand held its first election. |
| 1928 | The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew. |
| 1926 | The NBC Radio Network opens with 24 stations. |
| 1922 | At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador. |
| 1920 | The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| 1920 | The Free City of Danzig is established. |
| 1917 | Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia. |
| 1889 | Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup. |
| 1864 | American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea. |
| 1806 | Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor. |
| 1777 | American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. |
| 1760 | The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows. |
| 1705 | Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó. |
| 1533 | Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire. |
| 1532 | Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day. |
| 1315 | Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten. |
| 655 | Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. |
Famous People Born on November 15
Here is a random list who born on November 15. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1986 | Coye Francies, American football player |
| 1983 | Sasha Pavlović, Serbian basketball player |
| 1982 | Lofa Tatupu, American football player |
| 1923 | Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (d. 2014) |
| 1935 | Nera White, American basketball player (d. 2016) |
| 1947 | Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
| 1954 | Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (d. 2003) |
| 1936 | Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 1998) |
| 1997 | Catie Munnings, British rally driver |
| 1991 | Maxime Colin, French footballer |
Famous People Deaths On November 15
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on November 15. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1463 | Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman |
| 1967 | Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930) |
| 1226 | Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (b. 1193) |
| 1988 | Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915) |
| 1787 | Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714) |
| 1960 | Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937) |
| 1892 | Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850) |
| 1996 | Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1904) |
| 1919 | Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862) |
| 1670 | John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592) |
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