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What Happened on October 15th This Day in History

Year	Name
2018	13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.
2016	One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
2013	The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
2008	The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
2007	Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
2006	The 6.7 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
2003	China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
2001	NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 180 km of Jupiter's moon Io.
1997	The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
1994	The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
1991	The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
1991	The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
1990	Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1989	Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1987	Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
1987	A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.
1979	Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
1979	A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.
1970	During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
1966	The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1965	Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
1956	FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
1954	Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
1951	Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
1944	World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
1940	President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
1939	The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
1932	Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1928	The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1923	The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
1910	Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1888	The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1878	The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1864	American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
1863	American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
1815	Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1793	Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.
1783	The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
1582	Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
1529	The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
1211	Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
1066	Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.

Famous People Born on October 15

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Year	Name
1923	Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (d. 1985)
1938	Brice Marden, American painter
1959	Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1711	Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (d. 1741)
1945	Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
1927	B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
1923	Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (d. 2010)
1899	Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (d. 1986)
1894	Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
1942	Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer

Famous People Deaths On October 15

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 15. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2009	Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (b. 1939)
925	Rhazes, Persian polymath (b. 864)
1002	Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
898	Lambert of Italy (b. 880)
1810	Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (b. 1755)
1820	Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)
1715	Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
1963	Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
1243	Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (b. 1174)
1987	Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)