About October 15
October 15, 2025 is the 288th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 77 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 125 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 15
- 1764 –Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
- 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.
- 1894 –The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
- 1910 –Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
- 1928 –The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
- 1939 –The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
- 1945 –World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
- 1951 –Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.
- 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.
- 1966 –Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
- 1970 –The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
- 1970 –Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
- 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.
- 2003 –China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
- 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 –Legoland Florida in Winter Haven, Florida Opens. This is the world’s largest Legoland theme park
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