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

  • 1532 –
    Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
  • 1777 –
    American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
  • 1864 –
    American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
  • 1920 –
    First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
  • 1926 –
    The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
  • 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)
  • 1959 –
    Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
  • 1966 –
    A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
  • 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.
  • 1969 –
    In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy’s restaurant.
  • 1971 –
    Intel releases world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
  • 1976 –
    René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
  • 1978 –
    A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
  • 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.
  • 1985 –
    A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
  • 1987 –
    In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
  • 1988 –
    The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
  • 1990 –
    The People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
  • 2003 –
    The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
  • 2007 –
    Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.

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