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November 15 in History
2007
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
2005
Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2003
The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
2000
Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
1990
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' launches with flight STS-38.
1989
Sachin Tendulkar makes his debut as an international cricketer.
1988
The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle ''Buran'' is launched on her first and last space flight.
1987
In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1985
The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1983
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey.
1979
A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1978
A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1976
René Lévesque and the ''Parti Québécois'' take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
1971
Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1969
Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS ''Gato'' in the Barents Sea.
1968
The US Air Force launches Operation Commando Hunt, a large-scale bombing campaign against the Ho Chi Minh trail.
1967
The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1966
Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1959
Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1951
Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1949
Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1948
Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
1945
1943
Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
1942
World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1939
In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1935
Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
1926
The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1923
The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
1920
First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
1889
Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1864
1859
The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1854
In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1806
Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
1791
The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1777
1533
Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1532
Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
1515
Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1315
Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
655
Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.