About November 15
November 15, 2023 is the 319th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 87 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 15
- 655 –Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
- 1533 –Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
- 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.
- 1928 –The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- 1935 –Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
- 1959 –Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
- 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.
- 1976 –René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
- 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.
- 1988 –Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- 1990 –The People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
- 2000 –Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
- 2005 –Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
- 2007 –Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
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