About November 15
November 15, 2024 is the 320th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 75 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 15
- 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 I.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
- 1920 –First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
- 1928 –The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- 1935 –Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
- 1942 –World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
- 1943 –Holocaust: 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)
- 1949 –Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1951 –Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
- 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.
- 1969 –Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
- 1971 –Intel releases world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
- 1976 –René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
- 1983 –Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey.
- 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.
- 1990 –The People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
- 2003 –The 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.
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