About November 15
November 15, 2024 is the 320th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 75 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
- 1533 –Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
- 1806 –Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
- 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.
- 1923 –The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
- 1939 –In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
- 1942 –World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
- 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.
- 1969 –In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy’s restaurant.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1988 –Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- 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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