#WhatDayIsToday??? November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of the year. Events 655 – Battle of the Winwaed : Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria . 1315 – Battle of Morgarten: the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I. 1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro , Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca , arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day 1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco , the capital of the Inca Empire . 1688 – The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham. 1705 – Battle of Zsibó - Austrian -Danish victory over the Kurucs ( Hungarians ) 1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. 1791 – The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors. 1806 – Pike expedition : Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak ). 1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens , Greece. 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Shermans March to the Sea. 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup . 1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the Ohio League , the direct predecessor to the National Football League . 1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva , Switzerland. 1922 – Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil , Ecuador. 1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic . 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations. 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. 1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial . 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 ) 1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations. 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 . 1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas which inspired Truman Capotes non-fiction book In Cold Blood . 1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the programs final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. 1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board. 1967 – The 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. 1969 – Cold War : The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea . 1969 – Vietnam War : In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic March Against Death. 1971 – Intel releases the worlds 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 favor of independence. 1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo , Sri Lanka, killing 183. 1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago, Illinois to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. 1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey. 1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes. 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald . 1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713 , a Douglas DC-9 -14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash. 1987 – In Brașov , Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu . 1988 – In the Soviet Union , the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight. 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 – Space Shuttle program : Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38 . 1990 – The Peoples Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted. 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people. 2000 – Jharkhand state comes into existence in India. 2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new 9-members Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. 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. 2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide. 2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroys parts of the worlds largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans. 2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new 7-members Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. Births 459 – Butz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (d. 501) 1316 – John I of France (d. 1316) 1397 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455) 1498 – Eleanor of Austria (d. 1558) 1511 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536) 1556 – Jacques Davy Duperron , French cardinal (d. 1618) 1559 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (d. 1621) 1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (d. 1701) 1660 – Hermann von der Hardt , German historian (d. 1746) 1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss- American settler and author (d. 1743) 1688 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757) 1692 – Eusebius Amort, German theologian (d. 1775) 1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778) 1738 – William Herschel , German-English astronomer (d. 1822) 1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater , German philosopher (d. 1801) 1746 – Joseph Quesnel , French-Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809) 1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , Danish surgeon (d. 1830) 1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte , French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (d. 1860) 1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller , German jurist and politician (d. 1869) 1793 – Michel Chasles , French mathematician (d. 1880) 1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (d. 1892) 1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960) 1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946) 1867 – Emil Krebs , German polyglot and sinologist (d. 1930) 1868 – Emil Racovita , Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (d. 1947) 1874 – Dimitrios Golemis , Greek runner (d. 1941) 1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949) 1879 – Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953) 1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American columnist (d. 1960) 1882 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian- American jurist (d. 1965) 1886 – René Guénon , French-Egyptian author (d. 1951) 1887 – Marianne Moore , American poet (d. 1972) 1887 – Georgia OKeeffe , American painter (d. 1986) 1888 – Artie Matthews , American songwriter, pianist, and composer (d. 1958) 1890 – Richmal Crompton, English author (d. 1969) 1891 – W. Averell Harriman , American politician, 48th Governor of New York (d. 1986) 1891 – Erwin Rommel , German field marshal (d. 1944) 1892 – Naomi Childers , silent film actress whose career lasted until the mid-20th century (d. 1964) 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) 1895 – Antoni Słonimski , Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1976) 1897 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (d. 1960) 1897 – David McCord , American poet (d. 1997) 1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (d. 1988) 1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian diplomat (d. 1990) 1903 – Stewie Dempster , New Zealand cricketer (d. 1974) 1905 – Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1980) 1906 – Curtis LeMay , American general (d. 1990) 1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German army officer, member of the 20 July plot (d. 1944) 1912 – Yi Wu , Korean prince (d. 1945) 1913 – Guy Green , English director (d. 2005) 1913 – Arthur Haulot , Belgian journalist (d. 2005) 1919 – Joseph Wapner , American judge 1919 – Carol Bruce, American band singer and actress (d. 2007) 1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos , Greek actor (d. 1999) 1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004) 1922 – David Sidney Feingold , American biochemist 1923 – Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer (d. 1995) 1925 – Howard Baker , American politician and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff 1925 – Yuli Daniel, Russian poet and author (d. 1988) 1926 – Thomas Williams, American novelist (d. 1990) 1927 – Gregor Mackenzie , English politician (d. 1992) 1928 – C. W. McCall , American singer- songwriter 1928 – John Orchard , English actor (d. 1995) 1928 – Seldon Powell, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 1997) 1929 – Ed Asner , American actor 1929 – Joe Hinton , American singer (d. 1968) 1930 – J. G. Ballard , English author (d. 2009) 1931 – John Kerr , American actor and lawyer (d. 2013) 1931 – Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan politician, 3rd President of Kenya 1931 – Pascal Lissouba , Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo 1932 – Petula Clark, English actress and singer 1932 – Clyde McPhatter , American singer (Billy Ward and His Dominoes and The Drifters ) (d. 1972) 1932 – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher 1933 – Theodore Roszak , American scholar and author (d. 2011) 1934 – Joanna Barnes, American actress 1934 – Irén Pavlics, Hungarian author 1936 – H. B. Bailey , American race car driver (d. 2003) 1936 – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist 1936 – Tara Singh Hayer , Canadian journalist (d. 1998) 1937 – Little Willie John, American singer- songwriter (d. 1968) 1937 – Yaphet Kotto , American actor 1939 – W. C. Clark, American singer and guitarist 1940 – Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer 1940 – Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor 1940 – Sam Waterston , American actor 1941 – Rick Kemp, English singer- songwriter, bass player, and producer (Steeleye Span ) 1941 – Daniel Pinkwater, American author 1942 – Daniel Barenboim , Argentine- Israeli conductor and pianist 1945 – Roger Donaldson , Australian director and producer 1945 – Bob Gunton, American actor 1945 – Frida Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer (ABBA) 1946 – Vasilis Goumas , Greek basketball player 1947 – Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal 1947 – Bill Richardson , American politician, 30th Governor of New Mexico 1950 – Egon Vaupel, German politician, Mayor of Marburg 1951 – Beverly DAngelo , American actress 1952 – Rick Atkinson, American author 1952 – Zoltán Buday, Hungarian actor 1952 – Randy Savage , American wrestler and actor (d. 2011) 1953 – Alexander ONeal , American singer 1954 – Herbert Heidenreich , German footballer 1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland 1954 – Randy Thomas , American singer- songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sweet Comfort Band and Allies ) 1955 – Georgina Born , English bass player and anthropologist (Henry Cow ) 1955 – Henry Corra , American director and producer 1956 – Michael Hampton , American guitarist and producer ( Parliament-Funkadelic ) 1956 – Brian Douglas Wells , American pizza delivery man forced bank robber (d. 2003) 1957 – Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer ( The Tonight Show Band ) 1957 – Harold Marcuse, American historian 1957 – Ray McKinnon, American actor and director 1957 – Michael Woythe , German footballer 1958 – Lewis Fitz- Gerald , Australian actor and director 1958 – Gu Kailai , Chinese lawyer and businesswoman 1960 – Susanne Lothar, German actress (d. 2012) 1961 – Metin Kaçan , Turkish author (d. 2013) 1962 – Mark Acres , American basketball player 1962 – Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer 1963 – Andrew Castle , English tennis player 1963 – Benny Elias , Australian rugby player 1964 – Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer 1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev , Russian footballer (d. 2011) 1964 – Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and coach 1965 – Nigel Bond , English snooker player 1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer 1966 – Rachel True , American actress 1967 – E-40 , American rapper ( The Click ) 1967 – Greg Anthony, American basketball player 1967 – Pedro Borbón, Jr. , Dominican baseball player 1967 – Dom Joly, Lebanese-English comedian and journalist 1967 – François Ozon, French director 1967 – Gustavo Poyet , Uruguayan footballer 1968 – Ol Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (Wu-Tang Clan ) (d. 2004) 1968 – Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and director 1968 – Jennifer Charles , American singer- songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Elysian Fields , Lovage , and La Mar Enfortuna ) 1968 – Uwe Rösler , German footballer 1969 – Shane Mack , American politician 1970 – Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer 1970 – Jack Ingram , American singer- songwriter and guitarist 1970 – Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer 1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor 1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen , German footballer 1972 – Jonny Lee Miller , English actor 1973 – Jesse Merz , American actor 1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress 1974 – Chad Kroeger , Canadian singer- songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Nickelback ) 1975 – Scott Henshall , English fashion designer 1975 – Yannick Tremblay , Canadian ice hockey player 1975 – Boris Živković, Croatian footballer 1976 – Brandon DiCamillo , American comedian, actor, and stuntman 1976 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress 1977 – Sean Murray , American actor 1977 – Peter Phillips , English son of Anne, Princess Royal 1977 – Robaire Smith , American football player 1977 – Logan Whitehurst , American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Velvet Teen ) (d. 2006) 1978 – Floyd Womack, American football player 1979 – Josemi , Spanish footballer 1979 – Brooks Bollinger , American football player 1979 – Brett Lancaster , Australian cyclist 1980 – Ace Young , American singer- songwriter and actor 1980 – Kevin Staut, French equestrian 1981 – Drew Hodgdon , American football player 1981 – Lorena Ochoa , Mexican golfer 1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick , American football player 1982 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player 1982 – Benjamin Krause , German rugby player 1982 – Lofa Tatupu , American football player 1982 – Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer 1983 – Dominic Carroll , Gibraltarian runner 1983 – Sasha Pavlovic, Serbian basketball player 1983 – DJ Skee , American DJ and producer 1983 – Laura Smet, French actress 1983 – Fernando Verdasco , Spanish tennis player 1985 – Lily Aldridge, American model 1985 – Casnel Bushay , Vincentian sprinter 1985 – Charron Fisher, American basketball player 1986 – Coye Francies, American football player 1986 – Sania Mirza , Indian tennis player 1986 – Jerry Roush, American singer- songwriter ( Of Mice & Men , Sky Eats Airplane, and Glass Cloud ) 1987 – Isaiah Osbourne , English footballer 1988 – B.o.B , American rapper and producer 1988 – Zena Grey, American actress 1988 – Morgan Parra , French rugby player 1988 – Billy Twelvetrees , English rugby player 1989 – Jonalyn Viray , Filipino singer and actress 1990 – Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor 1991 – Shailene Woodley , American actress 1992 – Minami Minegishi , Japanese singer and actress ( AKB48 and no3b ) 1992 – Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player 1993 – Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer Deaths 655 – Penda of Mercia 1136 – Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (b. 1073) 1210 – Ly Cao Tong, the seventh king of the Lý dynasty of Vietnam (b. 1173) 1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193) 1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian son of Mary of Enghien (b. 1386) 1579 – Ferenc Dávid , Hungarian preacher, founded the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510) 1594 – Martin Frobisher , English explorer (b. 1539) 1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576) 1630 – Johannes Kepler , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571) 1670 – John Amos Comenius , Czech bishop, educator, and philosopher (b. 1592) 1691 – Aelbert Cuyp , Dutch painter (b. 1620) 1706 – 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683) 1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish politician (b. 1658) 1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun , English politician (b. 1675) 1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer (b. 1714) 1794 – John Witherspoon , Scottish- American minister and academic, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1723) 1795 – Charles-Amédée- Philippe van Loo , French painter (b. 1719) 1819 – Daniel Rutherford , Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749) 1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767) 1853 – Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819) 1908 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835) 1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831) 1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846) 1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858) 1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian politician (b. 1868) 1919 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) 1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866) 1922 – Georgios Hatzianestis , Greek general (b. 1863) 1922 – Petros Protopapadakis , Greek politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854) 1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872) 1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (b. 1864) 1949 – Narayan Apte , Indian activist, assassin of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (b. 1911) 1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (b. 1910) 1954 – Lionel Barrymore , American actor (b. 1878) 1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914) 1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) 1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937) 1961 – Elsie Ferguson , American actress (b. 1883) 1963 – Fritz Reiner , Hungarian conductor (b. 1888) 1965 – Dawn Powell, American poet (b. 1896) 1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos , Greek weightlifter (b. 1877) 1967 – Michael J. Adams, American pilot (b. 1930) 1971 – Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, Soviet intelligence officer (b. 1903) 1976 – Jean Gabin , French actor (b. 1904) 1978 – Margaret Mead , American anthropologist (b. 1901) 1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player (b. 1954) 1981 – Enid Markey , American actress (b. 1894) 1981 – Khawar Rizvi , Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938) 1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian actvist (b. 1895) 1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentine race car driver (b. 1901) 1983 – Charlie Grimm , American baseball player (b. 1898) 1983 – John Le Mesurier , English actor (b. 1912) 1983 – John Grimaldi , English musician, songwriter and artist (b. 1955) 1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915) 1988 – Archbishop Ieronymos I of Athens (b. 1905) 1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908) 1996 – Alger Hiss , American lawyer, diplomat, and author (b. 1904) 1997 – Saul Chaplin , American composer and director (b. 1912) 1998 – Stokely Carmichael , Trinidadian- American activist (b. 1941) 1998 – Ludvik Danek , Czech discus thrower (b. 1937) 2002 – Myra Hindley , English murderer (b. 1942) 2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910) 2003 – Dorothy Loudon , American actress (b. 1933) 2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923) 2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924) 2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909) 2004 – John Morgan , Welsh-Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1930) 2005 – Adrian Rogers , American pastor and author (b. 1931) 2005 – Arto Salminen , Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959) 2006 – Ana Carolina Reston , Brazilian model (b. 1985) 2006 – David K. Wyatt , American historian and author (b. 1937) 2007 – Joe Nuxhall , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928) 2009 – Allan Murdmaa , Estonian architect (b. 1934) 2009 – Patriarch Pavle of Serbia (b. 1914) 2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (b. 1932) 2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944) 2010 – William Edwin Self , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921) 2012 – Théophile Abega , Cameroonian footballer (b. 1954) 2012 – Luis Carreira , Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976) 2012 – Maleli Kunavore , Fijian rugby player (b. 1983) 2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician (b. 1931) 2012 – Keith Ripley, English footballer (b. 1935) 2012 – José Song Sui- Wan , Chinese-Brazilian bishop (b. 1941) 2012 – Frode Thingnæs , Norwegian trombone player, composer, and conductor (b. 1940) 2012 – Khin Maung Toe , Burmese singer- songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950) Holidays and observances Christian Feast Day : Abibus of Edessa Albert the Great Blessed Hugh Faringdon Didier of Cahors Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna . Malo Mechell November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of the German- speaking Community of Belgium ( German- speaking Community of Belgium ) Independence Day , unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine ) Kings Feast ( Belgium ) Republic Proclamation Day ( Brazil) Shichi-Go-San (Japan ) The beginning of Winter Lent (Eastern Orthodox )
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