About October 15
October 15, 2024 is the 289th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 77 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 106 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 15
- 1783 –The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
- 1815 –Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1880 –Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
- 1888 –The “From Hell” letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
- 1894 –The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
- 1904 –The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1932 –Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
- 1940 –The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
- 1944 –The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler’s NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
- 1951 –Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.
- 1953 –British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1956 –Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
- 1969 –Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation’s capitol.
- 1970 –Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
- 1979 –Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
- 1997 –The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
- 1997 –The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth’s atmosphere.
- 2003 –The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
- 2005 –A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
- 2007 –Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country’s first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
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