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
- 655 –Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1859 –The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
- 1923 –The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
- 1926 –The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 –In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
- 1988 –Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- 1990 –Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
- 1990 –The People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
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