Talk:October 15

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October 15: White Cane Safety Day in the United States 1582 – Spain, Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Italy became the first countries to replace the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar. 1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (pictured) was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany. 1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people. 1989 – Playing for the Los Angeles Kings against his old team, the Edmonton Oilers, Canadian professional ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe's National Hockey League record of 1,850 career points. 2003 – Chinese space program: Shenzhou 5, China's first manned space mission was launched, carrying astronaut Yang Liwei. More events: October 14 – October 15 – October 16 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 09:31, June 12, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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• 1928 - Graf Zeppelin lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Outside of "this day in history"-type webpages (VERY bad source), I could only find one website that gives this info. Her maiden voyage was sometime in the teens of October, but I can't pin down the exact days to any reasonable degree of certainty. --mav 03:51, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I removed "October 15th is the last day to file an Individual Income Tax Return with the Internal Revenue Service with a granted additional extension." as it doesn't belong in the intro, and I don't know what country it applies to. DJ Clayworth 18:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] hunley

I question the claim H. L. Hunley was "first successful submarine", when she sank on two trials and her only operational mission, as well as the fact she was preceded by David Bushnell's Turtle in 1776.

[edit] 2500-year celebratio nof Iran begins in 1971

Anyone have any idea what this is?216.57.30.2 15:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)