About November 15

November 15, 2025 is the 319th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 94 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On November 15

  • 1315 –
    Battle of Morgarten: the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
  • 1533 –
    Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
  • 1889 –
    Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
  • 1920 –
    First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
  • 1923 –
    The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
  • 1926 –
    The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 1966 –
    A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
  • 1969 –
    Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
  • 1969 –
    In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy’s restaurant.
  • 1983 –
    Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised 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.
  • 1988 –
    Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
  • 1990 –
    Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
  • 1990 –
    The People’s 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.

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