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

  • 1791
    The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
  • 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.
  • 1923
    The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
  • 1935
    Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
  • 1942
    World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
  • 1949
    Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
  • 1951
    Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
  • 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.
  • 1966
    Gemini program: Gemini 12 completes the program’s final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 1969
    Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March Against Death”.
  • 1983
    Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey.
  • 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
    In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
  • 1988
    Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
  • 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.

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