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Historical Events on November 15

565
Justin II succeeds his uncle, Justinian I, as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
655
Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315
Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
1532
Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
1533
Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1705
Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).
1760
The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
1777
American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1791
The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
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.)
1864
American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889
Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1914
Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
1915
Winston Churchill resigns from his Government, and soon commands the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front.
1920
First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1920
The Free City of Danzig is established.
1922
Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1926
The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1928
The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
1933
Thailand has its first election
1935
Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.
1939
In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1942
World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943
The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps"
1949
Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1951
Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1955
The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
1959
The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
1966
Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966
A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967
The only fatality of the North American 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.
1969
Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
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".
1971
Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976
René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1978
A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979
A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declared independence. Recognized only by Turkey.
1985
A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985
The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987
In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988
In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988
The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1990
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
1990
The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2000
A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2000
Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
2002
Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
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.
2006
Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007
Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2012
Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2016
Hong Kong High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.[1]

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