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The following events took place on November 15. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 54 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 565

  Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 655

  Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
• 1315

  Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
• 1532

  Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
• 1533

  Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
• 1705

  Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
• 1791

  The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
• 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.)
• 1859

  The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
• 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 Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
• 1914

  Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the “Ohio League”, the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
• 1920

  First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1920

  The Free City of Danzig is established.
• 1922

  Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1926

  The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
• 1928

  The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
• 1935

  Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.
• 1939

  In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
• 1942

  World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
• 1943

  The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”. (See Porajmos.)
• 1945

  Venezuela joins the United Nations.
• 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.
• 1955

  The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
• 1959

  The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote’s non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
• 1966

  Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program’s final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1966

  A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
• 1967

  The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

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