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Historical Events on November 15

  • Castellania (Valletta)

    1760

    The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.

  • American Revolutionary War

    1777

    American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

  • American Civil War

    1864

    American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.

  • Brazil

    1889

    Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

  • The Holocaust

    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"

  • Cold War

    1969

    Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

  • Vietnam War

    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".

  • Soviet Union

    1988

    In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

  • Xi Jinping

    2012

    Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

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