SomeFacts | October 15

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 ...