November 15
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November 15 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1777 - After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
- 1864 - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
- 1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is removed from power in a military coup.
- 1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
- 1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
- 1935 - Canada and the United States sign a trade agreement in Washington.
- 1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
- 1941 - Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
- 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a Allied victory.
- 1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
- 1948 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.
- 1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
- 1985 - The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
- 1988 - An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- 1990 - Producers admit that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
- 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
[change] Births
- 1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)
- 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
- 1891 - Erwin Rommel (d. 1944)
- 1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1932 - Petula Clark, English singer
- 1954 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland
- 1974 - Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
[change] Deaths
- 1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
- 1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (born 1714)
- 1917 - Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
- 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte, conspirators against Mahatma Gandhi
