November 15

Tuesday 15, 2005:

DVD release of huge-hit television serial Friends.The One with All Ten Seasons

Monday 15, 2004:

New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey leaves office, three months after resigning due to a gay extra-marital affair. State Senator Richard Codey takes over as interim governor.

Friday 15, 2002:

Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.

Thursday 15, 2001:

The Microsoft Xbox video game console launches in North America, along with the game .

Wednesday 15, 2000:

A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people

Thursday 15, 1990:

Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing themselves on their album.

Wednesday 15, 1989:

Sachin Tendulkar makes his Test cricket debut playing for India against Pakistan.

Tuesday 15, 1988:

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.

Sunday 15, 1987:

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.

Friday 15, 1985:

The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

Tuesday 15, 1983:

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.

Thursday 15, 1979:

A package from the Unabomber explodes in the mail on its way to Washington.

Wednesday 15, 1978:

A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

Monday 15, 1976:

René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.

Monday 15, 1971:

Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

Sunday 15, 1970:

1970 the Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon

Saturday 15, 1969:

Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.

Tuesday 15, 1966:

Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

Wednesday 15, 1961:

Roger Maris is voted the American League MVP (baseball)

Tuesday 15, 1960:

The Polaris missile is test launched.

Sunday 15, 1959:

Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.

Thursday 15, 1956:

The first film starring Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender, opens.

Monday 15, 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.

Monday 15, 1943:

German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." (see Porajmos)

Sunday 15, 1942:

World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends.

Saturday 15, 1941:

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.

Friday 15, 1940:

The Warsaw Ghetto, with a population of 400,000 Jews, is sealed off from the outside world by the Nazis.

Wednesday 15, 1939:

In Washington, DC, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

Monday 15, 1926:

The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

Monday 15, 1920:

First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.

Friday 15, 1889:

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

Tuesday 15, 1864:

American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

Wednesday 15, 1854:

In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.

Saturday 15, 1806:

Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).

Tuesday 15, 1791:

The first U.S Catholic college,Georgetown University,opens its doors.

Saturday 15, 1777:

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

Wednesday 15, 1533:

Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.

Monday 15, 1515:

Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal

Thursday 15, 655:

Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.

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