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On this day - October 15
1066 — Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, ...
1211 — Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders ...
1529 — The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading ...
1582 — Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading ...
1651 — Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince ...
1781 — The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North ...
1783 — The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first ...
1793 — Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of ...
1815 — Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South ...
1864 — American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri ...
1888 — The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the ...
1910 — Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first ...
1923 — The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter ...
1928 — The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic ...
1932 — Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first ...
1939 — The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia ...
1940 — President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the ...
1944 — World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after ...
1951 — Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of ...
1954 — Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North ...
1956 — FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared ...
1965 — Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally ...
1966 — The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby ...
1970 — During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, ...
1979 — A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos ...
1979 — Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the ...
1987 — A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then ...
1987 — Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di ...
1989 — Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in ...
1990 — Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel ...
1991 — The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, ...
1991 — The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy ...
1994 — The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns ...
1997 — The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to ...
2001 — NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 ...
2003 — China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
2006 — The 6.7 Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing ...
2007 — Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the ...
2008 — The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or ...
2013 — The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least ...
2016 — One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal ...
2018 — 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her ...