Historical Events on November 15

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• 564 The death of Paganism in England: Pagan King Penda of Mercia and his allies are defeated at the Battle of Winwaed by Christian king Oswiu of Bernicia (as told by Bede)
• 655 Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Bernicia.
• 1315 Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria

• 1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells

• 1492 In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
• 1515 Thomas Wolsey is invested as an English Cardinal
• 1527 Treaty of Schoonhoven: Henry of the Palatinate, Bishop of Utrecht, cedes lands to the Habsburgs in return for security help against resistant citizens

• 1660 First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)
• 1679 English House of Commons accepts Exclusion Bill

• 1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands

• 1727 NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
• 1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason–Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland

• 1791 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
• 1806 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
• 1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak in Colorado

• 1813 Allied troops occupies Groningen
• 1813 Tax revolt in Amsterdam
• 1824 Series of fires kills 10 in Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1826 Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
• 1827 Creek-indians lose all their property in US

• 1845 William Vincent Wallace, conducts the premiere of his first opera, "Maritana" at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, England
• 1849 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
• 1854 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
• 1864 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY

• 1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
• 1870 Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union
• 1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
• 1884 European Colonization and trade in Africa is officially regulated at the international Berlin Conference, formalizing European powers "Scramble for Africa"
• 1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
• 1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed

• 1900 Dutch soccer club NEC is established in Nijmegen

• 1902 The Egyptian Museum, the first national museum in the Middle East, opens to the public in its new premises on Ismailia Square (now Tahir Square) in Cairo [1]
• 1903 Eugen d'Albert's opera "Tiefland" premieres in Prague

• 1911 Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins

• 1919 US Senate 1st invokes the Cloture Rule to end a filibuster, passes Versailles Treaty [1]
• 1920 Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen" premieres in Nuremberg
• 1920 Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
• 1920 League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva
• 1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions

• 1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
• 1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
• 1926 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
• 1932 Walt Disney Art School created
• 1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
• 1935 "A Night at the Opera", comedy film directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released
• 1935 Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
• 1936 Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
• 1937 First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
• 1938 Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
• 1938 First telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
• 1939 Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia

• 1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
• 1939 The first unemployment compensation law, under the Social Security Act, that of the District of Columbia, was approved for grants by the Social Security Board
• 1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
• 1940 NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
• 1941 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco

• 1942 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
• 1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank

• 1945 Rules revised for election of modern players to the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1946 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley

• 1947 Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal

• 1949 KRON-TV channel 4 in San Francisco, California (NBC) begins broadcasting; call letters a nod to the owners other business, The San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
• 1950 Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed, by Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
• 1951 NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
• 1953 WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begin as SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) inaugurates DC-6B service between Los Angeles, California and Copenhagen, Denmark, via Greenland and Winnipeg, Manitoba
• 1955 Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement

• 1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
• 1959 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17

• 1960 USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
• 1961 Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth

• 1961 UN bans nuclear arms

• 1963 Valium, created by chemist Leo Sternbach at Roche, approved by US Drug and Food Administration - most prescribed drug in the world 1969-1982 [1]
• 1964 Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
• 1964 KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1964 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns

• 1966 Gemini XII (Lovell & Aldrin) returns to Earth

• 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 descending from 81km, causing its mid air destruction over the Mojave Desert
• 1967 WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1969 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)

• 1969 The 1st ever colour television commercial in the UK, for Birds Eye peas, airs on ATV in the Midlands during a Thunderbirds episode
• 1969 Wendy's Hamburgers, American fast food restaurant chains founded by Dave Thomas opens in Columbus, Ohio

• 1972 Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
• 1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
• 1972 White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
• 1973 Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war
• 1974 International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis

• 1975 "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" single released by Ed Bruce
• 1976 Syrian army conquers Beirut

• 1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka

• 1978 Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP

• 1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
• 1979 In Parliament Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, exposed as 4th man in Soviet spy ring. He was then stripped of his knighthood and fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge
• 1979 Iran cancels all contracts with U.S. oil companies
• 1980 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (a rollercoaster) opens at Disney World in Florida

• 1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
• 1984 "Emergency" 16th studio album by American band Kool & the Gang is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1985)

• 1985 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes

• 1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver

• 1987 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
• 1987 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
• 1987 NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
• 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapses
• 1988 Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
• 1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
• 1988 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• 1989 "Batman" film is released on video tape
• 1989 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
• 1989 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• 1989 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
• 1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album
• 1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit

• 1991 Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
• 1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
• 1992 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
• 1992 Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
• 1993 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
• 1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM

• 1994 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45

• 1994 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
• 1995 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
• 1999 Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
• 2000 A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
• 2000 New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India
• 2001 Microsoft releases the first Xbox game console in the US
• 2002 British drummer Ringo Starr inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall Of Fame [1]

• 2003 First day of the Istanbul Bombings takes place, followed by additional bombings on November 20th

• 2005 Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines

• 2007 A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroying Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest

• 2011 Istana Negara, the new palace of the monarch of Malaysia with its 22 domes is inaugurated in Kuala Lumpur, replacing the old palace
• 2012 At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
• 2012 Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for $4.5 Billion
• 2012 The Eurozone economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.1% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.2% in the previous quarter
• 2013 5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik, India
• 2013 Sony launches the Playstation Four, selling one million units on the first day
• 2014 A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning
• 2014 The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government's handling of the case

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