Notable Historical Events on November 15th
November 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
655 |
Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. |
1315 |
Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria |
1348 |
Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells |
1491 |
Anne of Brittany becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle" |
1492 |
Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco |
1492 |
In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder |
1515 |
Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal |
1527 |
Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods) |
1532 |
Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn |
1533 |
Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco |
1577 |
Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington |
1583 |
Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees |
1620 |
Myles Standish leads 16 men in a foot exploration of the northern portion of Cape Cod |
1660 |
First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City) |
1679 |
English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill |
1688 |
Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay, England; the 'Glorious Revolution' commences |
1715 |
Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands |
1720 |
Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial |
1727 |
NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath |
1763 |
Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland |
1777 |
Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress |
1791 |
1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens |
1806 |
1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue |
1806 |
Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado) |
1813 |
Allied troops occupies Groningen |
1813 |
Tax revolt in Amsterdam |
1824 |
Series of fires kills 10 in Edinburgh, Scotland |
1826 |
Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura |
1827 |
Creek-indians lose all their property in US |
1832 |
Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation" premieres |
1835 |
Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle |
1837 |
Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system |
1845 |
Opera "Maritana" is produced (London) |
1849 |
1st US poultry show opens in Boston |
1854 |
In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession. |
1864 |
1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY |
1864 |
Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on the "March to the Sea" |
1869 |
Free postal delivery formally inaugurated |
1870 |
Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union |
1881 |
American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) |
1882 |
British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba, Niger |
1884 |
Colonization of Africa orgainized at international conference in Berlin |
1887 |
British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong |
1889 |
Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed |
1899 |
Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal |
1901 |
james j jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in San Francisco |
1902 |
Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist |
1903 |
Eugen d'Albert's opera "Tiefland" premieres in Prague |
1911 |
Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins |
1914 |
Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo d'Italia |
1916 |
William George Barker, flying very low over the Ancre River, spots a large concentration of German troops massing for a counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, and sends an emergency Zone Call brought to bear all available artillery fire in the area onto the specified target. The force of some 4,000 German infantry was effectively broken up, and Barker is awarded the Military Cross |
1919 |
US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty) |
1920 |
Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen" premieres in Nuremberg |
1920 |
Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection |
1920 |
League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva |
1921 |
KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
British Conservative Party wins election; /Labour Party comes second |
1924 |
Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms |
1926 |
1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC) |
1926 |
AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC) |
1932 |
Walt Disney Art School created |
1934 |
Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium) |
1935 |
Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated |
1936 |
Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact |
1937 |
First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers |
1938 |
First telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY |
1938 |
Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona |
1939 |
Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia |
1939 |
FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC |
1939 |
Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews |
1939 |
US Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check |
1940 |
1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime |
1940 |
1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls |
1940 |
NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic |
1941 |
Cow Palace opens in San Francisco |
1941 |
Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier |
1942 |
World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219. |
1944 |
Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank |
1945 |
The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame |
1946 |
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley |
1946 |
Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP |
1947 |
Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG |
1947 |
Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal |
1948 |
Mackenzie King retires after spending 22 years as the Prime Minister of Canada |
1948 |
Louis St. Laurent is sworn in as the 12th Prime Minister of Canada |
1949 |
KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1950 |
Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League) |
1951 |
Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI v MCC, Lahore |
1951 |
NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year |
1953 |
WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins |
1955 |
Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement |
1956 |
"Li'l Abner" opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances |
1956 |
Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender" premieres in NYC |
1957 |
US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000 |
1959 |
Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capote book In Cold Blood). |
1959 |
Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17 |
1960 |
Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks |
1960 |
USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched |
1961 |
Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth |
1961 |
Roger Maris is voted AL MVP |
1961 |
UN bans nuclear arms |
1962 |
Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award |
1964 |
Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV |
1964 |
KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open |
1964 |
Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro |
1964 |
Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns |
1965 |
Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph) |
1966 |
Gemini XII (Lovell & Aldrin) returns to Earth |
1967 |
Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP |
1967 |
Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km |
1967 |
WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
The only fatality of the 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. |
1968 |
1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four" |
1969 |
1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back) |
1969 |
1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) |
1969 |
250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War |
1969 |
Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, Fla |
1969 |
Wendy's Hamburgers opens |
1971 |
Intel advertises 4004-processor |
1972 |
Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC |
1972 |
Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays |
1972 |
White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP |
1973 |
Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war |
1974 |
Ringo Starr releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK |
1974 |
International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis |
1975 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
1976 |
Syrian army conquerors Beirut |
1977 |
Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran |
1978 |
183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka |
1978 |
Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" premieres in London |
1978 |
Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP |
1979 |
Iran cancels all contracts with U.S. oil companies |
1979 |
ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage |
1979 |
British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, as 4th man in Soviet spy ring |
1979 |
A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. |
1980 |
Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany |
1981 |
"Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 48 performances |
1982 |
Funeral service held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev |
1982 |
4th ACE Cable Awards: "Bernstein/Beethoven" by Horant H. Hohlfeld and Harry J. Kraut |
1983 |
75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
1983 |
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed |
1985 |
A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes. |
1986 |
2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts) |
1987 |
28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver |
1987 |
Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34) |
1987 |
Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America |
1987 |
NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game |
1987 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988 |
91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapses |
1988 |
Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award |
1988 |
PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence |
1988 |
Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits) |
1988 |
The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands. |
1989 |
"Batman" is released on video tape |
1989 |
"Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances |
1989 |
Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award |
1989 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989 |
Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi |
1989 |
Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games |
1990 |
US President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990 |
1990 |
Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album |
1990 |
US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit |
1991 |
Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive) |
1991 |
Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game |
1992 |
Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die |
1992 |
Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban) |
1993 |
Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM |
1993 |
Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher |
1993 |
13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba. |
1994 |
"Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances |
1994 |
6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45 |
1994 |
Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) |
1994 |
Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election |
1995 |
"Master Class" opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances |
1995 |
Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir |
1996 |
"Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs |
1997 |
19th ACE Cable Awards: Nickelodeon wins the Golden CableACE for "The Big Help" |
1999 |
Next transit of Mercury visible in North America |
2000 |
A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people |
2000 |
New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India |
2002 |
Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China. |
2003 |
The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on November 20. |
2005 |
Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines. |
2005 |
39th Country Music Association Award: Keith Urban & Gretchen Wilson wins |
2007 |
A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans. |
2012 |
At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts |
2012 |
Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for $4.5 Billion |
2012 |
The Eurozone economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.1% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.2% in the previous quarter |
2013 |
5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik, India |
2013 |
Sony launches the Playstation Four, selling one million units on the first day |
2014 |
Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense |
2014 |
World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth |
2014 |
The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government's handling of the case |
2014 |
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning |
2015 |
Ronda Rousey knocked out by Holly Holm in huge UFC upset |
2015 |
10 killed after French high-speed train derails and crashes into canal |
2016 |
Gwen Ifill, Award-Winning Political Reporter and Author, Dies at 61 |
2016 |
Thousands of students carry protests against Trump into second week |
2016 |
Apple stock extends losses after China warning about Trump |
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