15th
November, on this day
655 Battle
of Winwaed : Penda
of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu
of Northumbria
1315 Battle
of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army
of Leopold
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1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 In Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
1532 Commanded 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
1533 Francisco
Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1577 English explorer and navigator Sir
Francis Drake begins his voyage to sail around the world
1660 1st kosher butcher (Asser
Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1715 Barrier
Treaty, Austria cedes area to the Netherlands
1763 Charles
Mason and Jeremiah
Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania &
Maryland
1777 In
US, Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
1791 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1796 In America, John
Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson by three votes in the US Presidential
election. Jefferson becomes vice president
1806 1st US college magazine,
Yale Literary Magazine, publishes 1st issue
1806 Explorer Zebulon
Pike sights Pikes Peak
1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh, Scotland)
1845 The opera "Maritana"
is produced (London)
1848 Papal premier Count
Rossi is assassinated
1854 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with
the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1864 Union General William
Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's
March to the Sea
1884 Colonisation of Africa organized at international conference
in Berlin
1889 On the abdication of Pedro
II, Brazil is proclaimed a republic
1899 Future British prime minister Winston
Churchill is captured while covering the Boer War as a war correspondent
for the English newspaper, the Morning Post. He later escapes and
reaches British lines
1901 An electronic hearing aid is given a patent in New York
1920 Free
City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection
1920
League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
1926 In US, NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
1932 Walt
Disney Art School created
1935 Commonwealth of Phillipines inaugurated. Manuel
L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines
1938 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw, Jews
1939 In US, Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment
check
1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
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 The Battle
of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
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 William
Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM 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 are executed for assassinating Mahatma
Gandhi
1950 1st Negro player in organized hockey-Arthur Dorrington signed
1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1956 New York premiere of Elvis Presley's first film: 'Love
Me Tender'
1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf
Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
1959 Richard
Hickock and Perry Smith kill Clutter
Family
1960 The Polaris missile is test launched
1965 Craig
Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 Gemini
XII returns to Earth
1966 Boeing 727 Pan
Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three
people on board.
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 which is destroyed mid-air
over the Mojave Desert.
1968 Operation
Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies
on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
1968 The Cunard flagship 'Queen
Elizabeth' docks at Southampton for the last time. She was replaced
by the new liner the QE2
1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam
War
1969 Janis
Joplin, accused of vulgar and indecent language in Tampa, FL
1969 The Soviet
submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS
Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 ITV screen Britain's first commercial in colour - an advert for
Birds Eye peas
1971 Intel
releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the
4004
1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma
rays
1974 Ringo releases "Goodnight
Vienna" and "Only You" in UK
1976 René
Lévesque and the Parti
Québécois take power to become the first Quebec
government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah
of Iran
1978 183 die as
Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
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.
1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran
hostage
1979 British government identifies Sir
Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1980 Pope John
Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid
Brezhnev
1983 An independent
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is unilaterally proclaimed
- recognised only by Turkey
1983 The Greenham
Common Women's Group mounts its first protest as cruise missiles
arrive at the US airbase in Berkshire
1985 British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Garret
Fitzgerald sign the Anglo-Irish
Agreement in Dublin
1987 Continental
Airlines Flight 1713 : 28 of 82 aboard
Continental Airlines DC-9 die in crash at Denver
1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses
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.
1988 Soviet
space shuttle makes first and only unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1989 "Batman" is released on video tape
1990 President Bush signs the Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 Producers confirm that Milli
Vanilli didn't sing on their album
1991 Dow Jones average drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1993 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster
in Cuba.
1995 In Britain, Conservative Party chairman Brain
Mawhinney is attacked by demonstrators throwing paint and flour
as he leaves Westminster after the Queen's Speech
1999 Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
2000 A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda,
Angola killing more than 40 people
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.
2005 Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8
variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2007 A devastating Cyclone
named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and
destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 15th:
1397 Nicholas V
pope (1447-55); ended schism, founded Vatican Library
1708 William Pitt the Elder (Whig) UK PM (1756-61, 66-68) `Great Commoner'
1738 Sir William Herschel astronomer (discovered Uranus)
1815 John Banvard NYC, painted world's largest painting (3 mile canvas)
1862 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany, writer (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912)
1874 August Krogh Denmark, physiologist (Nobel-1920)
1879 Lewis Stone Worcester MA, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1881 Franklin P Adams Chicago IL, columnist (Information Please)
1882 Felix Frankfurter Vienna Austria, US supreme court justice (1939-62)
1886 Pedro Sanjuan San Sebastian, Spain, composer (Castilla)
1887 Georgia O'Keeffe Sun Prairie WI, painter (Cow's Skull)
1887 Marianne Moore St Louis, poet (Pulitzer-1951-Collected Poems)
1891 Erwin Rommel German field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1891 W Averell Harriman US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1895 Ina Claire actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound)
1897 Sacheverell Sitwell English poet/writer (People's Palace)
19-- James Widdoes Pittsburgh PA, actor (Charles in Charge, Delta
House)
19-- Judith Chapman Greenville SC, actress (Ryan's Hope)
19-- Margaret Reed actress (As The World Turns)
1905 Mantovani Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani)
1909 Don Large Canada, choral director (Wayne King)
1914 Jorge Bolet Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka)
1919 Carol Bruce Great Neck NY, actress (Lillian Carlson-WKRP)
1919 Joseph Albert Wapner La, judge (People's Court)
1922 Francesco Rosi Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano)
1923 Peter Hammond London England, actor (Buccaneers)
1925 Howard Baker (Sen-R-TN), presidential chief of staff
1929 Edward Asner Kansas City KS, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou
Grant)
1930 Whitman Mayo NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1931 John Kerr NYC, actor (South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit &
Pendulum)
1932 Petula Clark England, singer (Downtown, My Love)
1933 Barbara Carson Memphis TN, actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country)
1933 Jack Burns Boston MA, comedian (Burns & Schreiber)
1934 Joanna Barnes Boston, actress (Parent Trap, Spartacus, Goodbye
Charlie)
1937 Yaphet Kotto NYC, actor (Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe)
1939 Erik Hansen Denmark, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 Thalmus Rasulala [Jack Crowder], Miami FL, actor (Blacula, Roots)
1940 Sam Waterston Cambridge MA, actor (Law & Order, Capricorn
One, Heaven's Gate)
1942 Daniel Barenboim Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist/conductor
1945 Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad [Fryeda Anderson] Sweden, rocker (ABBA)
1946 Janet Lennon Culver City CA, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1954 Beverly D'Angelo Columbus Ohio, actress (Vacation, European Vacation)
1955 Oliver Conant NYC, actor (Summer of '42)
1956 Ashley Cox Dallas Texas, playmate (December, 1977)
1968 Brenda Alyce Bassett Kokomo Indiana, Miss Indiana-America (1991)
1968 James Brady Brooklyn NY, columnist (NY Post)
1970 Karin Von Breeschoteen Rotterdam Holland, Playmate (Sept, 1989)
1970 Mirjam Von Breeschoteen Rotterdam Holland, Playmate (Sept, 1989)
1977 Peter Mark Andrew Phillips 9th in sucession to British throne
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Deaths which occurred on November 15th:
1280 Albertus Magnus German scholar, dies at 87
1630 Johann Kepler German astronomer, dies at 58
1897 John Mercer Langston dies at 67
1958 Tyrone Power actor, dies of a heart attack at 44
1963 Fritz Reiner conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies at
74
1978 Margaret Mead anthropologist, dies in NY at 76
1983 John LeMesurier actor, dies at 71
1984 Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical
center
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