November 15

November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining.

Events:

• 1777 - U.S. Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
• 1806 - Zebulon Pike discovers Pikes Peak.
• 1830 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, loses vote of no confidence as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1864 - William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" begins - he burns Atlanta, Georgia
• 1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca - Emperor Pedro II is deposed
• 1920 - League of Nations establishes Free City of Danzig
• 1926 - NBC radio network opens
• 1942 - End of the Battle of Guadalcanal.
• 1948 - Louis Stephen Saint Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1957 - Electric Boat shipyard is awarded the contract to build USS Tullibee.
• 1960 - Polaris missile is test launched.
• 1969 - Soviet submarine K-19 collides with USS Gato(SSN-615) in the Barents Sea.
• 1971 - Intel releases world's first microprocessor, the 4004.
• 1988 - Shuttle Buran is launched into orbit.
• 1990 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flight STS-38.
• 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China

Births:

• 1738 - William Herschel, astronomer
• 1741 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, philosopher (+ 1801)
• 1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, narrator and dramaticst; recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1912 (+ 1946)
• 1879 - Lewis Stone, actor (+ 1953)
• 1887 - Georgia O'Keefe[?], painter (+ 1986)
• 1887 - Marianne Moore, poet (+ 1972)
• 1889 - King Manuel II of Portugal (+ 1932)
• 1890 - Richal Crompton[?], author
• 1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (+ 1944)
• 1905 - Mantovani[?], composer, musician, music arranger (+ 1980)
• 1906 - Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general, candidate for Vice President of the United States (+ 1990)
• 1925 - Heinz Piontek[?], writer
• 1925 - Howard Baker[?], former Senator from Tennessee, former White House Chief of Staff
• 1929 - Ed Asner[?], actor
• 1930 - J. G. Ballard, science fiction author
• 1931 - Pascal Lissouba, Republic of the Congo politician
• 1932 - Petula Clark, singer
• 1933 - Clyde McPhatter, singer
• 1936 - Wolf Biermann[?], writer
• 1937 - Yaphet Kotto[?], actor
• 1940 - Sam Waterston, actor
• 1942 - Daniel Barenboim, pianist, conductor
• 1954 - Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland
• 1954 - Beverly D'Angelo[?], actress
• 1956 - Michael Hampton, guitarist (P Funk)
• 1988 - Zena Grey, actress

Deaths:

• 1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer
• 1954 - Lionel Barrymore, actor
• 1958 - Tyrone Power, actor
• 1965 - Allen Du Mont[?], television pioneer
• 1978 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist, writer, lecturer
• 1996 - Alger Hiss, United States State Department official, spy
• 1998 - Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), U.S. civil rights activist
• 2002 - Myra Hindley, Moors murderess

Holidays and Observances:

• Roman Empire - Festival in honor of Feronia
• Eastern Orthodoxy - Feast of Saint Philip the Apostle and the beginning of Winter Lent

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See Also:

November 14 - November 16 - October 15 - December 15 -- listing of all days

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