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This day in history: 15 November

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Key facts

381 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 15 November.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2022: The world population reached eight billion.

Holidays and observances

America Recycles Day (United States)

Christian feast day: Abibus of Edessa

Christian feast day: Albert the Great

Christian feast day: Blessed Caius of Korea

Christian feast day: Blessed Hugh Faringdon

Christian feast day: Didier of Cahors

Christian feast day: Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna.

Christian feast day: Malo

Christian feast day: Mechell

Christian feast day: November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking Community of Belgium)

Events

2022The world population reached eight billion.

2020Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.

2017A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.

2016Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.

2012Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

2010A fire in a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China kills 58 people.

2007Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.

2006Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.

2003The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.

2002Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

2001Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America.

2000A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.

2000Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.

1994A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high.

1990Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38, a classified mission for the Department of Defense.

1990The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.

1988In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

1988Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.

1988The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.

1987Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, killing 25.

1987In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

1985A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

1985The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

1983Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey.

1979A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

1978A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

1976René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.

1971Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

1969Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

1969Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000–500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".

1968The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.

1967The only fatality of the North American 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.

1966Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

1965Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

1959Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, Kansas, by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, a crime later detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.

1957Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell.

1955The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.

1951Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece.

1943The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".

1942World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

Born on this day

2001TyTy Washington Jr., American basketball player

1997Paula Badosa, Spanish tennis player

1996Kim Min-jae, South Korean footballer

1995Blake Pieroni, American swimmer

1995Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player

1994Alejandro Saab, American voice actor, YouTuber, and VTuber

1994Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player

1994Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian tennis player

1994Emma Dumont, American actress and model

1993Arik Armstead, American football player

1993Melitina Staniouta, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast

1993Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer

1992Dylan Bundy, American baseball player

1992Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer

1992Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer

1992Sofia Goggia, Italian skier

1991Maxime Colin, French footballer

1991Shailene Woodley, American actress

1989Jona Viray, Filipino singer

1988Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player

1988B.o.B, American rapper, songwriter, and producer

1988Morgan Parra, French rugby player

1988Quanitra Hollingsworth, American-Turkish basketball player

1987Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player

1986Coye Francies, American football player

1986Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter

1986Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player

1986Winston Duke, Tobagonian-American actor

1985Charron Fisher, American basketball player

1985Lily Aldridge, American model

1985Simon Spender, Welsh footballer

1984Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and producer

1983Aleksandar Pavlović, Serbian basketball player

1983Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner

1983Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player

1983John Heitinga, Dutch footballer and coach

1983Sophia Di Martino, English actress

1982Benjamin Krause, German rugby player

1982Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer

1982Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer

Died on this day

2024Béla Károlyi, Romanian-American gymnastics coach (born 1942)

2024Celeste Caeiro, Portuguese pacifist (born 1933)

2024Jon Kenny, Irish comedian and actor (born 1957)

2024Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess (born 1923)

2023Žarko Laušević, Serbian actor (born 1960)

2017Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (born 1996)

2016Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (born 1927)

2015Gisèle Prassinos, French author (born 1920)

2015Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (born 1930)

2015Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (born 1929)

2014Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (born 1918)

2014Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (born 1934)

2014Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (born 1924)

2014Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (born 1983)

2013Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (born 1919)

2013Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (born 1930)

2013Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (born 1929)

2012Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)

2012K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)

2012Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (born 1976)

2012Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (born 1983)

2012Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (born 1954)

2011Oba Chandler, American murderer (born 1946)

2010Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (born 1944)

2010Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (born 1932)

2010William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)

2009Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (born 1914)

2008Grace Hartigan, American painter (born 1922)

2007Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1928)

2006David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (born 1937)

Quote of the day

“Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work.”

Seneca

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