November 15 ::: Project ETERNITY

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November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining.

Events

600-1799

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

1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal

1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1800-1899

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).

1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.

1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

1900-1999

1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.

1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

1939 - In Washington, DC, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

1940 - The Warsaw Ghetto, with a population of 400,000 Jews, is sealed off from the outside world by the Nazis.

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.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends.

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)

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 British Commonwealth history.

1956 - The first film starring Elvis Presley (Love Me Tender) opens.

1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.

1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.

1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

1976 - René Lévesque & the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.

1978 - A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

1979 - A package from the Unabomber explodes in the mail on its way to Washington.

1985 - A research assistant is injured as 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.

1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.

1988 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.

1989 - Sachin Tendulkar makes his Test cricket debut playing for India against Pakistan.

1990 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.

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

2000-2099

2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people

2001 - The Microsoft Xbox video game console launches in North America, along with the now legendary game .

2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.

2004 - Metroid Prime 2 is released, continuing the long line of Metroid games.

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.