What happened on November 15? There are more than 281 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 15
November 15 is the 320th day of the year 2024. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 46th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66226 sunrise will occur at 07:01 AM and sunset will occur at 05:06 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 75 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 15
- 655Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
- 1315Battle of Morgarten: the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
- 1532Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
- 1533Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
- 1777American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
- 1791The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
- 1806Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
- 1859The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
- 1864American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
- 1889Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
- 1920First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
- 1923The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
- 1926The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
- 1928The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- 1935Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
- 1939In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
- 1942World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
- 1942World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
- 1943Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”. (see Porajmos)
- 1945Venezuela joins the United Nations.
- 1949Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1951Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
- 1959Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
- 1966A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
- 1966Gemini program: Gemini 12 completes the program’s final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1967The 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 which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
- 1969Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
- 1969In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy’s restaurant.
- 1969Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March Against Death”.
- 1971Intel releases world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
- 1976René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
- 1978A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
- 1979A 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.
- 1983Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey.
- 1985A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
- 1985The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
- 1987Continental 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.
- 1987In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
- 1988In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
- 1988Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- 1988The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
- 1990Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
- 1990The People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
- 2000A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
- 2000Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
- 2003The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
- 2005Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
- 2007Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
Who Were Born On November 15?
- 1316John I of France (d. 1316)
- 1397Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
- 1498Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
- 1511Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
- 1556Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)
- 1559Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (d. 1621)
- 1607Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
- 1660Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
- 1661Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in Americas (d. 1743)
- 1688Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)
- 1692Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
- 1708William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)
- 1738William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
- 1741Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
- 1746Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)
- 1757Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)
- 1784Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
- 1791Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (d. 1869)
- 1793Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
- 1852Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (d. 1892)
- 1859Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
- 1862Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (d. 1946)
- 1868Emil Racovita, Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica (d. 1947)
- 1874August Krogh, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1949)
- 1874Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
- 1879Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953)
- 1881Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (d. 1960)
- 1882Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1965)
- 1886René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
- 1887Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
- 1887Marianne Moore, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1888Artie Matthews, songwriter, pianist, & ragtime composer (d. 1958)
- 1890Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
- 1891Averell Harriman, American businessman (d. 1986)
- 1891Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, “The Desert Fox” (d. 1944)
- 1895Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
- 1895Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1897Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
- 1897Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (d. 1988)
- 1899Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
- 1903Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1974)
- 1905Mantovani, Italian-born composer (d. 1980)
- 1906Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general (d. 1990)
- 1907Claus von Stauffenberg, German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (d. 1944)
- 1913Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
- 1913Guy Green, English film director (d. 2005)
- 1919Joseph Wapner, American judge
- 1920Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (d. 1999)
- 1922David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist
- 1922Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004)
- 1925Howard Baker, American political advisor
- 1925Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
- 1927Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
- 1928C. W. McCall, American singer
- 1928John Orchard, British actor (d. 1995)
- 1928Seldon Powell, American soul jazz, swing and R&B tenor saxophonist and flautist (d. 1997)
- 1929Ed Asner, American actor
- 1929Joe Hinton, American soul singer (d. 1968)
- 1930J. G. Ballard, British author (d. 2009)
- 1931Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
- 1931Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician
- 1932Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher
- 1932Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
- 1932Petula Clark, English singer
- 1933Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (d. 2011)
- 1934Joanna Barnes, American actress
- 1936H. B. Bailey, American NASCAR driver (d. 2003)
- 1936Wolf Biermann, German writer
- 1937Little Willie John, American singer (d. 1968)
- 1937Yaphet Kotto, American actor
- 1939W. C. Clark, blues musician known for his influence on the Austin, Texas blues scene
- 1940Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer
- 1940Sam Waterston, American actor
- 1940Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor
- 1941Rick Kemp, English bass player, songwriter, vocalist and record producer
- 1942Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born conductor and pianist
- 1945Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad, Norwegian born, Swedish singer (ABBA)
- 1945Bob Gunton, American actor
- 1945Roger Donaldson, Australian producer/director
- 1946Vasilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
- 1947Bill Richardson, American politician, 9th United States Secretary of Energy, and 30th Governor of New Mexico
- 1950Egon Vaupel, German politician
- 1950Graham Parker, English singer and songwriter (The Rumour)
- 1951Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
- 1952Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (d. 2011)
- 1952Zoltán Buday, Hungarian born actor
- 1953Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer
- 1954Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland
- 1955Georgie Born, English academic, anthropologist and musician (Henry Cow)
- 1955Henry Corra, American documentarian
- 1956Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (d. 2003)
- 1956Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
- 1957Harold Marcuse, American historian
- 1957Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
- 1957Michael Woythe, German footballer
- 1957Ray McKinnon, American film actor/director
- 1958Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and television director
- 1961Ian Reid, Australian educator
- 1962Judy Gold, American stand-up comic and actor
- 1962Mark Acres, American basketball player
- 1963Andrew Castle, English television presenter and former tennis professional
- 1963Benny Elias, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1964Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1964Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer
- 1965Nigel Bond, English snooker player
- 1965Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
- 1966Rachel True, American actress
- 1967Dom Joly, British comedian and journalist
- 1967E-40, American rapper
- 1967François Ozon, French film director
- 1967Greg Anthony, American basketball player
- 1967Gustavo Poyet, Uruguayan footballer
- 1967Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player
- 1968Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and film director
- 1968Jennifer Charles, American singer/songwriter
- 1968Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
- 1969Shane Mack, American politician
- 1970Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer
- 1970Jack Ingram, American singer and songwriter
- 1970Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer
- 1971Jay Harrington, American actor
- 1972Jonny Lee Miller, English actor
- 1972Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese mathematician, Fields medalist
- 1973Jesse Merz, American actor
- 1973Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
- 1974Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer (Nickelback)
- 1975Boris Živković, Croatian footballer
- 1975Scott Henshall, British fashion designer
- 1975Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian
- 1976Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
- 1977Logan Whitehurst, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1977Peter Phillips, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II
- 1977Robaire Smith, American football player
- 1977Sean Murray, American actor
- 1978Floyd Womack, American football player
- 1979Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
- 1979Brooks Bollinger, retired American football quarterback
- 1979Josemi, Spanish footballer
- 1980Ace Young, American singer
- 1981Drew Hodgdon, American football player
- 1981Jordan Buckley, American heavy metal guitarist, Every Time I Die
- 1981Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
- 1982D. J. Fitzpatrick, American Football League kicker
- 1982Joe Kowalewski, American football player
- 1982Lofa Tatupu, National Football League player
- 1983DJ Skee, American DJ/personality
- 1983Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
- 1983Laura Smet, French actress
- 1983Sasha Pavlovic, Serbian basketball player
- 1984Gemma Atkinson, English actress
- 1985Lily Aldridge, American fashion model
- 1986Coye Francies, American football player
- 1986Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
- 1987Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer
- 1988B.o.B, American recording artist and producer
- 1988Zena Grey, American actress
- 1990Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor
- 1991Shailene Woodley, American actress
Who Died On November 15?
- 655Penda, King of Mercia
- 1028Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
- 1136Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
- 1280Albertus Magnus, German theologian, bishop, and philosopher
- 1463Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples
- 1544King Jungjong of Joseon (b. 1506)
- 1579Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
- 1628Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
- 1630Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
- 1670John Amos Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)
- 1691Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
- 1706Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
- 1712Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
- 1712James Douglas-Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1658)
- 1787Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
- 1794John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
- 1795Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
- 1819Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
- 1832Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767)
- 1853Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
- 1908Empress Dowager Cixi, Chinese ruler (b. 1835)
- 1910Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
- 1916Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846)
- 1917Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
- 1919Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
- 1919Mohammad Farid, Egyptian politician (b. 1868)
- 1922Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician (b. 1866)
- 1922Georgios Hatzianestis, Greek General (b. 1863)
- 1922Nikolaos Stratos, Greek politician (b. 1872)
- 1922Petros Protopapadakis, Greek politician (b. 1854)
- 1945Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (b. 1864)
- 1949Narayan Apte, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
- 1949Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
- 1954Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
- 1958Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1959Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
- 1961Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1963Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
- 1965Dawn Powell, American poet (b. 1896)
- 1966Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
- 1967Michael J. Adams, American test pilot (b. 1930)
- 1971Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
- 1976Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
- 1978Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
- 1981Enid Markey, American stage and film actress (b. 1894)
- 1981Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani Poet and Scholar(b. 1938)
- 1981Steve Macko, American baseball player (b. 1954)
- 1982Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (b. 1901)
- 1982Vinoba Bhave, Indian human rights advocate (b. 1895)
- 1983Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1983John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
- 1988Billo Frómeta, Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer (b. 1915)
- 1988Ieronymos I, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens (b. 1905)
- 1990Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
- 1994Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
- 1996Alger Hiss, American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904)
- 1997Saul Chaplin, American composer and musical director (b. 1912)
- 1998Ludvik Danek, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
- 1998Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
- 2002Myra Hindley, English murderess (b. 1942)
- 2003Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
- 2003Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
- 2003Ray Lewis, Canadian athlete (b. 1910)
- 2003Speedy West, American musician (b. 1924)
- 2004Elmer L. Andersen, American politician (b. 1909)
- 2004John Morgan, Canadian comedian (b. 1930)
- 2005Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)
- 2005Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (b. 1959)
- 2006Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
- 2006David K. Wyatt, American historian (b. 1937)
- 2007Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
- 2009Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, Serbian religious figure (b. 1914)
- 2010Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2010Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist (b. 1932)
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