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
- 1582 –Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
- 1783 –The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
- 1863 –American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
- 1888 –The “From Hell” letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
- 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.
- 1932 –Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
- 1934 –The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek’s National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1969 –Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation’s capitol.
- 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.
- 1987 –The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
- 1997 –The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
- 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.
- 2003 –China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
- 2011 –Global protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries.
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