About October 15

October 15, 2025 is the 288th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 77 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 125 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 15

  • 1529 –
    The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1783 –
    The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
  • 1793 –
    Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
  • 1864 –
    American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
  • 1878 –
    The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
  • 1928 –
    The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • 1932 –
    Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
  • 1939 –
    The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
  • 1944 –
    The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler’s NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1971 –
    The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
  • 1987 –
    The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
  • 2001 –
    NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
  • 2003 –
    China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
  • 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.
  • 2011 –
    Legoland Florida in Winter Haven, Florida Opens. This is the world’s largest Legoland theme park

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