15th November
November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining.
Events
600-1799
1800-1899
1900-1999
- 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) opens.
- 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.
2000-2099
Births
1300-1799
1800-1899
- 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)
1900-1999
- 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
- 1952 - Daniel Barenboim,
Israeli pianist and conductor
- 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
600-1899
1900-1999
- 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
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
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