November, 15th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Tuesday 15, 2005:
DVD release of huge-hit television serial Friends.The One with All Ten Seasons

Monday 15, 2004:
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey leaves office, three months after resigning due to a gay extra-marital affair. State Senator Richard Codey takes over as interim governor.

Friday 15, 2002:
Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.

Thursday 15, 2001:
The Microsoft Xbox video game console launches in North America, along with the game .

Wednesday 15, 2000:
A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people

Thursday 15, 1990:
Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing themselves on their album.

Wednesday 15, 1989:
Sachin Tendulkar makes his Test cricket debut playing for India against Pakistan.

Tuesday 15, 1988:
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.

Sunday 15, 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.

Friday 15, 1985:
The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

Tuesday 15, 1983:
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.

Thursday 15, 1979:
A package from the Unabomber explodes in the mail on its way to Washington.

Wednesday 15, 1978:
A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

Monday 15, 1976:
René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.

Monday 15, 1971:
Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

Sunday 15, 1970:
1970 the Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon

Saturday 15, 1969:
Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.

Tuesday 15, 1966:
Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

Wednesday 15, 1961:
Roger Maris is voted the American League MVP (baseball)

Tuesday 15, 1960:
The Polaris missile is test launched.

Sunday 15, 1959:
Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.

Thursday 15, 1956:
The first film starring Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender, opens.

Monday 15, 1948:
Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.

Monday 15, 1943:
German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." (see Porajmos)

Sunday 15, 1942:
World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends.

Saturday 15, 1941:
SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.

Friday 15, 1940:
The Warsaw Ghetto, with a population of 400,000 Jews, is sealed off from the outside world by the Nazis.

Wednesday 15, 1939:
In Washington, DC, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

Monday 15, 1926:
The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

Monday 15, 1920:
First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.

Friday 15, 1889:
Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

Tuesday 15, 1864:
American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

Wednesday 15, 1854:
In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.

Saturday 15, 1806:
Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).

Tuesday 15, 1791:
The first U.S Catholic college,Georgetown University,opens its doors.

Saturday 15, 1777:
American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

Wednesday 15, 1533:
Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.

Monday 15, 1515:
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal

Thursday 15, 655:
Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/15-november/on-this-day.html


People born on November 15

1988:
Zena Grey, American actress (b: November 15, 1988) (Biography of Zena Grey)

1986:
Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player (b: November 15, 1986) (Biography of Sania Mirza)

1970:
Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer (b: November 15, 1970) (Biography of Patrick Mboma)

1969:
Shane Mack, American politician (b: November 15, 1969) (Biography of Shane Mack (mayor))

1968:
Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b: November 15, 1968 ; d: November 13, 2004) (Biography of Ol' Dirty Bastard)

1965:
Nigel Bond, English snooker player (b: November 15, 1965) (Biography of Nigel Bond)

1963:
Benny Elias, Australian rugby player (b: November 15, 1963) (Biography of Benny Elias)

1957:
Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist (b: November 15, 1957) (Biography of Kevin Eubanks)

1956:
Michael Hampton, guitarist (Funkadelic) (b: November 15, 1956) (Biography of Michael Hampton)

1954:
Aleksander Kwa?niewski, President of Poland (b: November 15, 1954) (Biography of Aleksander Kwa?niewski)

1951:
Beverly D'Angelo, American actress (b: November 15, 1951) (Biography of Beverly D'Angelo)

1947:
Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico (b: November 15, 1947) (Biography of Bill Richardson (politician))

1945:
Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian singer (ABBA) (b: November 15, 1945) (Biography of Anni-Frid Lyngstad)

1942:
Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born pianist and conductor (b: November 15, 1942) (Biography of Daniel Barenboim)

1940:
Sam Waterston, American actor (b: November 15, 1940) (Biography of Sam Waterston)

1937:
Yaphet Kotto, American actor (b: November 15, 1937) (Biography of Yaphet Kotto)
Little Willie John, American singer (b: November 15, 1937) (Biography of Little Willie John)

1936:
Wolf Biermann, German writer (b: November 15, 1936) (Biography of Wolf Biermann)

1933:
Clyde McPhatter, American singer (b: November 15, 1933 ; d: June 13, 1972) (Biography of Clyde McPhatter)

1932:
Petula Clark, English singer (b: November 15, 1932) (Biography of Petula Clark)

1931:
Pascal Lissouba, Republic of the Congo politician (b: November 15, 1931) (Biography of Pascal Lissouba)

1929:
Ed Asner, American actor (b: November 15, 1929) (Biography of Ed Asner)

1925:
Howard Baker, U.S. Senator from Tennessee and White House Chief of Staff (b: November 15, 1925) (Biography of Howard Baker)

1913:
Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and resistance fighter (b: November 15, 1913 ; d: May 24, 2005) (Biography of Arthur Haulot)

1906:
Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general (b: November 15, 1906 ; d: October 3, 1990) (Biography of Curtis LeMay)

1905:
Mantovani, Italian-born composer, musician, and arranger (b: November 15, 1905 ; d: March 29, 1980) (Biography of Mantovani)

1899:
Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (b: November 15, 1899 ; d: November 15, 1969) (Biography of Iskander Mirza)

1897:
Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b: November 15, 1897 ; d: October 1, 1988) (Biography of Sacheverell Sitwell)

1895:
Antoni Słonimski, Polis writer (b: November 15, 1895 ; d: July 4, 1976) (Biography of Antoni Slonimski)

1891:
Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician (b: November 15, 1891 ; d: July 26, 1986) (Biography of Averell Harriman)
Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b: November 15, 1891 ; d: October 14, 1944) (Biography of Erwin Rommel)

1890:
Richmal Crompton, British author (b: November 15, 1890 ; d: January 11, 1970) (Biography of Richmal Crompton)

1889:
King Manuel II of Portugal (b: November 15, 1889 ; d: July 2, 1932) (Biography of Manuel II of Portugal)

1887:
Marianne Moore, American poet (b: November 15, 1887 ; d: February 5, 1972) (Biography of Marianne Moore)
Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (b: November 15, 1887 ; d: March 6, 1986) (Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe)

1886:
René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b: November 15, 1886 ; d: January 7, 1951) (Biography of René Guénon)

1882:
Felix Frankfurter, United States Supreme Court Justice (b: November 15, 1882 ; d: February 22, 1965) (Biography of Felix Frankfurter)

1881:
Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (b: November 15, 1881 ; d: March 23, 1960) (Biography of Franklin Pierce Adams)

1879:
Lewis Stone, American actor (b: November 15, 1879) (Biography of Lewis Stone)

1862:
Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: November 15, 1862 ; d: June 6, 1946) (Biography of Gerhart Hauptmann)

1859:
Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (b: November 15, 1859) (Biography of Christopher Hornsrud)

1784:
Jerome Bonaparte, French King of Westphalia (b: November 15, 1784) (Biography of Jerome Bonaparte)

1741:
Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (b: November 15, 1741) (Biography of Johann Kaspar Lavater)

1738:
William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b: November 15, 1738 ; d: August 25, 1822) (Biography of William Herschel)

1731:
William Cowper, English poet (b: November 15, 1731) (Biography of William Cowper)

1708:
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician (b: November 15, 1708 ; d: May 11, 1778) (Biography of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham)

1692:
Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b: November 15, 1692 ; d: February 5, 1775) (Biography of Eusebius Amort)

1661:
Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in America (b: November 15, 1661) (Biography of Christoph von Graffenried)

1660:
Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b: November 15, 1660 ; d: February 28, 1746) (Biography of Hermann von der Hardt)

1607:
Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b: November 15, 1607 ; d: June 2, 1701) (Biography of Madeleine de Scudéry)

1559:
Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b: November 15, 1559 ; d: July 13, 1621) (Biography of Archduke Albert (1559-1621))

1556:
Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b: November 15, 1556 ; d: December 6, 1618) (Biography of Jacques-Davy Duperron)

1511:
Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b: November 15, 1511 ; d: September 25, 1536) (Biography of Johannes Secundus)

1498:
Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b: November 15, 1498) (Biography of Eleonore of Austria)

1397:
Pope Nicholas V (b: November 15, 1397 ; d: March 24, 1455) (Biography of Pope Nicholas V)

1316:
King John I of France (b: November 15, 1316 ; d: November 20, 1316) (Biography of John I of France)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/15-november/births.html