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On this day - November 15
655 — Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of ...
1315 — Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer ...
1532 — Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco ...
1533 — Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca ...
1705 — Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and ...
1760 — The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially ...
1777 — American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the ...
1806 — Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak ...
1842 — A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences.
1849 — Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana explode as she pulls back ...
1864 — American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman ...
1884 — The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884, ...
1889 — Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as ...
1899 — Second Boer War: Battle of Chieveley, a British armored train ...
1917 — Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, ...
1920 — The Free City of Danzig is established.
1920 — The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, ...
1922 — At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in ...
1928 — The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with ...
1933 — Thailand holds its first election.
1938 — Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the ...
1942 — World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive ...
1943 — The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that ...
1951 — Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to ...
1955 — The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
1957 — Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell.
1959 — Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, ...
1965 — Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph ...
1966 — Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final ...
1967 — The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs ...
1968 — The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system ...
1969 — Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000–500,000 protesters ...
1969 — Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American ...
1971 — Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip ...
1976 — René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the ...
1978 — A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, ...
1979 — A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the ...
1983 — Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it ...
1985 — The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by ...
1985 — A research assistant is injured when a package from the ...
1987 — Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from ...
1987 — In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime ...
1988 — The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the ...
1988 — Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of ...
1988 — In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only ...
1990 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38, a classified ...
1990 — The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is ...
1994 — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island ...
2000 — Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed ...
2000 — A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, ...
2001 — Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America.
2002 — Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist ...
2003 — The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car ...
2006 — Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 — Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 ...
2010 — A fire in a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China ...
2012 — Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist ...
2016 — Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau ...
2017 — A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of ...
2020 — Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his ...
2022 — The world population reached eight billion.