On this day in History - Nov. 15

0655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
0655 - Penda dies. King of Mercia
1028 - Constantine VIII dies (b. 0960). Byzantine Emperor
1136 - Margrave Leopold III of Austria dies (b. 1073)
1280 - Albertus Magnus dies. German leader and bishop Regensburg, teologian.
1315 - The Swiss Confederation achieved its first great military success against the Austrian Habsburgs at the Battle of Morgarten.
1316 - John I became King of France (would die 4 days later).
1397 - Pope Nicholas V was born (d. 1455).
1463 - Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini dies. Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples
1498 - Eleonore of Austria was born (d. 1558). Queen of Portugal (1518-1521) and France.
1511 - Johannes Secundus was born (d. 1536). Dutch poet.
1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal
1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
1547 - Francisco de Arruda dies in Évora. Portuguese architect.
1556 - Jacques-Davy Duperron was born (d. 1618). French cardinal.
1559 - Archduke Albert of Austria was born (d. 1621). Governor of the Low Countries.
1579 - Ferenc Dávid dies (b. 1510). Hungarian religious reformer.
1607 - Madeleine de Scudéry was born (d. 1701). French writer.
1628 - Roque Gonzales dies (b. 1576). Paraguayan missonary.
1630 - Johannes Kepler dies (b. 1571). German astronomer and mathematician.
1660 - Hermann von der Hardt was born (d. 1746). German historian.
1661 - Christoph von Graffenried was born (d. 1743). Swiss settler in America.
1670 - Comenius dies (b. 1592). Czech writer.
1691 - Aelbert Cuyp dies (b. 1620). Dutch painter.
1692 - Eusebius Amort was born (d. 1775). German Catholic theologian.
1706 - Tsangyang Gyatso dies (b. 1683). 6th Dalai Lama.
1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham was born (d. 1778). English politician.
1712 - James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton dies (b. 1658). Scottish nationalist.
1712 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun dies (b. 1675). English politician.
1731 - William Cowper was born (d. 1800). English poet.
1738 - William Herschel was born (d. 1822). German-born British astronomer who discovered Uranus
1741 - Johann Kaspar Lavater was born (d. 1801). German philosopher.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1784 - Jerome Bonaparte was born (d. 1860). French King of Westphalia.
1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck dies (b. 1714). German composer.
1791 - The first U.S Catholic college,Georgetown University,opens its doors.
1795 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo dies (b. 1719). French painter.
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).
1818 - The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the first of four congresses held by Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and France following the Napoleonic Wars, concluded.
1825 - A independência do Brasil foi reconhecida, devido à ratificação por D. João VI do Tratado de Paz e Aliança com o Brasil.
1832 - Jean Baptiste Say dies. French economist.
1836 - Portugal: Fundação do Conservatório de Arte Dramática, actual Conservatório Nacional, por proposta de Almeida Garrett.
1841 - Alberto Sampaio was born (d. 1908). Portuguese historian.
1848 - Pellegrino Rossi, a former member of the Carbonaria, was assassinated in Rome during the Revolutions of 1848.
1853 - Queen Maria II of Portugal dies (b. 1819)
1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.
1857 - D. Guilherme Henriques de Carvalho dies (b. 1 Fev 1793). Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon
1859 - Christopher Hornsrud was born (d. 1960). Prime Minister of Norway
1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann was born (d. 1946). German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
1865 - Pedro Guillermo assumes the presidency of Dominican Republic.
1869 - Rodolfo Chiari was born. President of Panamá (1924-1928)
1879 - Lewis Stone was born (d. 1953). American actor.
1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams was born (d. 1960). American newspaper columnist.
1882 - Felix Frankfurter was born (d. 1965). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
1884 - The Berlin West Africa Conference opened, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin of Central Africa.
1885 - St. Joseph Mukasa, one of the Martyrs of Uganda, was beheaded by order of Mwanga, kabaka (ruler) of Buganda.
1886 - René Guénon was born (d. 1951). French-Egyptian author.
1886 - Baldomero Fernández Moreno was born. Argentine writer.
1887 - Marianne Moore was born (d. 1972). American poet.
1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe was born (d. 1986). American painter whose subjects were frequently enlarged views of skulls and other animal bones, flowers and plant organs, shells, rocks, mountains, and other natural forms.
1889 - King Manuel II of Portugal was born (1932)
1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup / D. Pedro II, segundo imperador do Brasil, filho de D. Pedro IV, rei de Portugal, e imperador do Brasil, é forçado a abdicar sendo proclamada a República.
1890 - Richmal Crompton was born (d. 1969). English author
1891 - W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician. U.S. diplomat in relations with the Soviet Union during World War II and the Cold War.
1891 - Erwin Rommel was born (d. 1944). German field marshall
1895 - Antoni Słonimski was born (d. 1976). Polish writer.
1897 - Aneurin Bevan was born (d. 1960). British politician.
1897 - Sacheverell Sitwell was born (d. 1988). English writer.
1899 - Iskander Mirza was born (d. 1969). First President of Pakistan.
1901 - First Electrical Hearing Aid: Miller Reese Hutchinson applied for a patent for the first electrical hearing aid.
1902 - Frederico de Freitas was born. Portuguese composer.
1903 - Stewie Dempster was born (d. 1974). New Zealand cricketer.
1904 - Incêndio destrói a praça de touros de Almada.
1904 - King C. Gillette patented his Gillette razor blade.
1905 - Mantovani was born (d. 1980). Italian-born composer, musician, and arranger.
1906 - Curtis LeMay was born (d. 1990). U.S. Air Force general.
1907 - Claus von Stauffenberg was born (d. 1944). German army colonel who plotted to assassinate Hitler
1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi dies (b. 1835). Chinese ruler.
1910 - Wilhelm Raabe dies (b. 1831). German writer.
1913 - Arthur Haulot was born (d. 2005). Belgian journalist and resistance fighter
1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz dies (b. 1846). Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate in 1905
1917 - Émile Durkheim dies (b. 1858). French sociologist.
1919 - Alfred Werner dies (b. 1866). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva with 41 nations
1923 - António Ginestal Machado assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
1924 - O aviador português Sacadura Cabral (b. 1880) desapareceu quando pilotava um Fokker 4146 de Amesterdão para Lisboa. Realizou, com Gago Coutinho, a primeira travessia aérea do Atlântico Sul, viajando no hidroavião Lusitânia, de Lisboa ao Rio de Janeiro.
1925 - Howard Baker was born. U.S. Senator from Tennessee and White House Chief of Staff
1925 - Yuli Daniel was born (d. 1988). Russian writer.
1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1926 - Washington Luís assumes the presidency of Brazil
1929 - Ed Asner was born. American actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 - J. G. Ballard was born. British author
1931 - Pascal Lissouba was born. Republic of the Congo politician
1932 - Petula Clark was born. English singer
1932 - Clyde McPhatter was born (d. 1972). American singer.
1936 - Wolf Biermann was born. German writer
1937 - Little Willie John was born (d. 1968). American singer.
1937 - Yaphet Kotto was born. American actor
1938 - A farewell parade was held in Barcelona, Spain, for the volunteers of the International Brigades who fought for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
1939 - In Washington, DC, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1940 - Sam Waterston was born. American actor
1940 - Germans bomb Coventry to destruction : The German Luftwaffe bombs Coventry in a massive raid leaving much of the city devastated.
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.
1942 - Daniel Barenboim was born. Argentine-born, Israeli pianist and conductor
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)
1945 - Duarte Pacheco dies. Minister of Salazar's Government and President of Municipality of Lisbon
1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born. Norwegian singer (ABBA)
1945 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poetess, is awarded with the Nobel Prize. She was the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1947 - Bill Richardson was born. Governor of New Mexico
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.
1951 - Beverly D'Angelo was born. American actress .
1953 - Jorge Mateus de Lima dies. Brazilian poet.
1954 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski was born. President of Poland
1954 - Lionel Barrymore dies (b. 1878). American actor.
1956 - Michael Hampton was born. American guitarist (Funkadelic)
1956 - The first film starring Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender, opens.
1957 - Kevin Eubanks was born. American jazz guitarist
1958 - Tyrone Power dies (b. 1914). American actor.
1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson dies (b. 1869). Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.
1960 - Somalia is admitted as member of UNESCO
1961 - Roger Maris is voted the American League MVP (baseball)
1961 - Elsie Ferguson dies (b. 1883). American actress.
1963 - Fritz Reiner dies (b. 1988). Hungarian conductor.
1963 - Benny Elias was born. Australian rugby player
1965 - Nigel Bond was born. English snooker player
1965 - Dawn Powell dies (b. 1896). American poet.
1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft, and is destoryed in mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1967 - Michael J. Adams dies (b. 1930). American test pilot
1968 - Ol' Dirty Bastard was born (d. 2004). American rapper.
1969 - Shane Mack was born. American politician
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.
1969 - Iskander Mirza dies (b. 1899). First President of Pakistan
1970 the Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon
1970 - Patrick Mboma was born. Cameroonian footballer
1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1971 - Rudolf Abel dies (b. 1903). Soviet spy
1971 - Edie Sedgwick dies (b. 1943). American actress and model.
1976 - A Syrian peace force took control of Beirut, Lebanon.
1976 - Jean Gabin dies. French actor.
1976 - René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
1978 - A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1978 - Margaret Mead dies (b. 1901). American anthropologist.
1979 - A package from the Unabomber explodes in the mail on its way to Washington.
1979 - Josemi was born. Spanish footballer
1980 - Annunzio Mantovani dies at 75. Italian orchestra leader.
1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
1983 - John Le Mesurier dies (b. 1912). British actor.
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.
1986 - Sania Mirza was born. Indian tennis player
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.
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. PLO chairman Yasir 'Arafat, issued a declaration of independence for a state of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1988 - No Brasil, o Partido dos Trabalhadores vence as eleições municipais, provocando profundas alterações na organização política do país.
1988 - Zena Grey was born. American actress.
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.
1990 - Alydar dies (b. 1975). American racehorse.
1994 - Helmut Kohl was elected German chancellor (341-340 votes).
1995 - João Soares sucede a Jorge Sampaio na presidência da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.
1995 - A selecção portuguesa de futebol vence a Irlanda por 3-0, ficando assim apurada para o Europeu-96.
1996 - Alger Hiss dies (b. 1904). American government official and spy.
1998 - Stokely Carmichael dies (b. 1941). American civil rights activist.

1998 - Iraqi climbdown averts air strikes Britain and America call back their bombers after Iraq agrees to allow UN weapons inspectors back into the country.
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 game Halo: Combat Evolved.
2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China replacing Jiang Zemin
2002 - Eddie Bracken dies (b. 1915). American actor.
2002 - Myra Hindley dies (b. 1942). English murderer.
2003 - Ray Lewis dies (b. 1910). Canadian athlete
2003 - Dorothy Loudon dies (b. 1933). American actress.
2003 - Laurence Tisch dies (b. 1923). American businessman.
2003 - Mohamed Choukri dies at 68. Moroccan writer whose tales about his experiences with drugs and homosexuality were banned at home. His best-known work, "For Bread Alone" (1981), was published in Paris and told of his difficult adolescence.
2004 - Elmer L. Andersen dies (b. 1909). Governor of Minnesota.
2004 - John Morgan dies (b. 1930). Canadian comedian.
2004 - Destiny's Child releases their final album: Destiny Fulfilled.
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.
2004 - Presidential elections in Namibia.
2004 - The UN Security Council imposed an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast's hard-line government.
2005 - DVD release of SpongeBob SquarePants TV movie, Where's Gary?. Also the release of the video game Shadow the Hedgehog
Brazil - Republic Proclamation Day
Palestine - Independence Day
Roman Empire - Festival in honor of Feronia
Eastern Orthodoxy - Feast of Saint Philip the Apostle and the beginning of Winter Lent
The official skolebrød-day on Sunnland skole, Norway
Saint Leopold's day - no school in Vienna, Lower Austria and Upper Austria