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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