About October 15
October 15, 2024 is the 289th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 77 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 106 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 15
- 1783 –The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
- 1793 –Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
- 1815 –Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
- 1878 –The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
- 1880 –Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
- 1888 –The “From Hell” letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
- 1932 –Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
- 1939 –The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
- 1953 –British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1956 –Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
- 1970 –The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
- 1971 –The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
- 1979 –Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
- 1997 –The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth’s atmosphere.
- 2001 –NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
- 2003 –The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
- 2011 –Global protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries.
- 2011 –Legoland Florida in Winter Haven, Florida Opens. This is the world’s largest Legoland theme park
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