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 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 2, 2021 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,636,934,400 seconds 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 78 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 3,251 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 15 Historical Events
- 1315 –Battle of Morgarten: the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
- 1791 –The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
- 1939 –In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1983 –Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey.
- 1985 –The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
- 2007 –Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
Who were born on November 15?
- 1498 –Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
- 1757 –Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)
- 1791 –Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (d. 1869)
- 1793 –Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
- 1897 –Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (d. 1988)
- 1899 –Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
- 1920 –Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (d. 1999)
- 1962 –Mark Acres, American basketball player
- 1967 –Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player
- 1969 –Shane Mack, American politician
Who died on November 15?
- 655 –Penda, King of Mercia
- 1832 –Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767)
- 1917 –Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
- 1961 –Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1998 –Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
- 2002 –Myra Hindley, English murderess (b. 1942)
- 2003 –Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
- 2003 –Speedy West, American musician (b. 1924)
- 2010 –Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2010 –Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist (b. 1932)
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