What are the important events that happened on November 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 15 is the 319th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 2, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 489,768 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecaenneagon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 94 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,712 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 15 Historical Events
- 655 –Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
- 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).
- 1935 –Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
- 1942 –World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
- 1945 –Venezuela joins the United Nations.
- 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 world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
- 1988 –In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
- 1990 –The People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
Who were born on November 15?
- 1559 –Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (d. 1621)
- 1741 –Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
- 1757 –Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)
- 1886 –René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
- 1891 –Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, “The Desert Fox” (d. 1944)
- 1895 –Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1922 –David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist
- 1965 –Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
- 1973 –Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
- 1983 –Sasha Pavlovic, Serbian basketball player
Who died on November 15?
- 1136 –Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
- 1280 –Albertus Magnus, German theologian, bishop, and philosopher
- 1691 –Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
- 1706 –Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
- 1832 –Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767)
- 1922 –Georgios Hatzianestis, Greek General (b. 1863)
- 1976 –Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
- 1981 –Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani Poet and Scholar(b. 1938)
- 1997 –Saul Chaplin, American composer and musical director (b. 1912)
- 1998 –Ludvik Danek, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
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