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15 Nov 1315
Battle of Morgarten Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
15 Nov 1348
Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
15 Nov 1491
Anne of Brittany becomes devoted to end la guerre folle
15 Nov 1492
In La Guardia Spain 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
15 Nov 1515
Thomas Wolsey is invested as an English Cardinal
15 Nov 1527
Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods)
15 Nov 1532
Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
15 Nov 1660
First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)
15 Nov 1679
English House of Commons accepts Exclusion Bill
15 Nov 1688
Prince Willem IIIs army lands at Torbay England the Glorious Revolution commences
15 Nov 1715
Barrier Treaty Austria cedes area to Netherlands
15 Nov 1727
NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase upon the faith of a Christian from abjuration oath
15 Nov 1763
Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
15 Nov 1777
Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
15 Nov 1806
1st US college magazine Yale Literary Government publishes 1st issue
15 Nov 1806
Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak in Colorado
15 Nov 1824
Series of fires kills 10 in Edinburgh Scotland
15 Nov 1826
Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in JavaMadura
15 Nov 1854
In Egypt the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea is given the necessary royal concession.
15 Nov 1864
1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University NY
15 Nov 1881
American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
15 Nov 1882
British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
15 Nov 1884
European Colonization and trade in Africa is officially regulated at the international Berlin Conference formalizing European powers Scramble for Africa
15 Nov 1887
British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
15 Nov 1889
Dom Pedro II Emperor of Brazil deposed republic proclaimed
15 Nov 1900
Dutch soccer club NEC is established in Nijmegen
15 Nov 1902
Leopold II King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
15 Nov 1903
Eugen dAlberts opera Tiefland premieres in Prague
15 Nov 1911
Proclamation sets designs for Canadian 5 & 10 gold coins
15 Nov 1913
9th Australasian Championships Ernie Parker beats Harry Parker (2-6 6-1 6-3 6-2)
15 Nov 1914
Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo dItalia
15 Nov 1919
US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
15 Nov 1920
Ernst Tollers Massen und Menschen premieres in Nuremberg
15 Nov 1920
Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
15 Nov 1920
League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva
15 Nov 1921
KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
15 Nov 1926
1st formal radio network RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
15 Nov 1934
Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
15 Nov 1935
A Night at the Opera directed by Sam Wood starring the Marx Brothers is released
15 Nov 1937
First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
15 Nov 1938
First telecast of an unscheduled event (fire) W2XBT NY
15 Nov 1938
Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
15 Nov 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
15 Nov 1940
1st 75000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
15 Nov 1940
NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
15 Nov 1941
Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
15 Nov 1942
World War II First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
15 Nov 1945
The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame
15 Nov 1946
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
15 Nov 1949
KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco California (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Nov 1949
WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
15 Nov 1950
Arthur Dorrington 1st black man in organized hockey is signed by Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
15 Nov 1951
Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad Pakistan XI v MCC Lahore
15 Nov 1951
NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
15 Nov 1953
WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka KS (CBSABC) begins broadcasting
15 Nov 1953
WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Nov 1954
1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
15 Nov 1956
Lil Abner opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances
15 Nov 1957
US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & 3000
15 Nov 1959
Cleveland Browns halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards) beat Wash 31-17
15 Nov 1960
USS G Washington 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles launched
15 Nov 1961
Comet C T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
15 Nov 1964
Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
15 Nov 1964
KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
15 Nov 1965
Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
15 Nov 1967
WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami FL (IND) begins broadcasting
15 Nov 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
15 Nov 1968
1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary Ball Four
15 Nov 1969
1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)
15 Nov 1969
1st commercial ad on English TV Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
15 Nov 1969
Wendys Hamburgers American fast food restaurant chains founded by Dave Thomas opens in Columbus Ohio
15 Nov 1972
Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
15 Nov 1972
Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
15 Nov 1974
International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis
15 Nov 1975
Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys single released by Ed Bruce
15 Nov 1978
183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo Sri Lanka
15 Nov 1978
Harold Pinters play Betrayal premieres in London
15 Nov 1979
ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
15 Nov 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
15 Nov 1979
Iran cancels all contracts with U.S. oil companies
15 Nov 1981
Camelot opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 48 performances
15 Nov 1982
4th ACE Cable Awards BernsteinBeethoven by Horant H. Hohlfeld and Harry J. Kraut
15 Nov 1983
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
15 Nov 1984
Emergency 16th studio album by American band Kool & the Gang is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1985)
15 Nov 1985
A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes
15 Nov 1987
28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9 die in crash at Denver
15 Nov 1987
Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (22634)
15 Nov 1987
Leile McBridge (Denver) crowned Miss Black America
15 Nov 1987
NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2 50 or more yard field goals in a game
15 Nov 1987
Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet retires from Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide with break trouble but wins his 3rd World Formula 1 Drivers Championship by 12 points from Nigel Mansell
15 Nov 1988
91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank WV collapses
15 Nov 1988
Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
15 Nov 1988
Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
15 Nov 1988
The first Fairtrade label Max Havelaar is launched in the Netherlands.
15 Nov 1989
Few Good Men opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
15 Nov 1989
Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
15 Nov 1990
Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didnt sing on their album
15 Nov 1990
US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
15 Nov 1991
Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
15 Nov 1991
Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
15 Nov 1992
Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes 34 die
15 Nov 1992
Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA Durban)
15 Nov 1993
Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
15 Nov 1993
Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
15 Nov 1993
13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
15 Nov 1994
Glass Menagerie opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
15 Nov 1994
6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines killing 45
15 Nov 1994
Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
15 Nov 1995
Master Class opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances
15 Nov 1995
Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
15 Nov 1996
Into the Whirlwind opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 performances
15 Nov 1997
19th ACE Cable Awards Nickelodeon wins the Golden CableACE for The Big Help
15 Nov 1999
Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
15 Nov 2000
A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda Angola killing more than 40 people
15 Nov 2000
New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India
15 Nov 2003
First day of the Istanbul Bombings takes place followed by additional bombings on November 20th
15 Nov 2005
Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines
15 Nov 2005
39th Country Music Association Award Keith Urban & Gretchen Wilson wins
15 Nov 2007
A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the worlds largest mangrove forest Sundarbans.
15 Nov 2012
At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
15 Nov 1550
Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente
15 Nov 1675
Pope Clemens X declares Gorcumse martyrs divine
15 Nov 1680
Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of (Kirchs CometNewtons Comet)
15 Nov 1698
Spanish king Carlos appoints grandson prince Jozef Ferdinand as heir
15 Nov 1732
First professional librarian in north America Louis Timothee hired in Philadelphia
15 Nov 1755
Henry Fox appointed British Secretary of State for the Southern Department
15 Nov 1792
Captain George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
15 Nov 1832
First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts
15 Nov 1888
St Andrews Golf Club Yonkers NY opens with just 6 holes
15 Nov 1888
USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
15 Nov 1894
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez (BG)
15 Nov 1905
David Belascos Girl of Golden West premieres in NYC
15 Nov 1908
Oscar Strauss musical Der tapfere Soldat premieres in Vienna
15 Nov 1908
Liberal candidate Jose Miguel Gomez wins national elections for president in Cuba
15 Nov 1910
1st airplane flight from deck of a ship Norfolk Virginia
15 Nov 1914
Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
15 Nov 1918
Republic of Czechoslovakia created with Tom Masaryk as its 1st president
15 Nov 1920
American Pro Football Leagues Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
15 Nov 1920
The Russian Bolshevik army occupies Sebastopol ending anti-communist attempts to regain the government of Russia
15 Nov 1922
German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirths term ends
15 Nov 1923
Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.
15 Nov 1927
Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania explodes 28 die
15 Nov 1935
Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship
15 Nov 1939
Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas Venezuela
15 Nov 1940
During WW II German planes destroy most of Coventry England
15 Nov 1941
British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before
15 Nov 1941
Governr-General Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refuge
15 Nov 1942
-Nov 15th) JapaneseUS sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal
15 Nov 1943
Chic Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)
15 Nov 1943
J Postma C Schalker D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN
15 Nov 1952
First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express
15 Nov 1953
WCIA TV channel 3 in Champaign IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Nov 1954
Egyptian President Naguib resigns state of emergency declared
15 Nov 1957
Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto to become NWA wrestling champion
15 Nov 1957
The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton New York is raided by law enforcement and many high level Mafia figures are arrested
15 Nov 1959
Girls against the Boys closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 performances
15 Nov 1959
Kilaueas most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
15 Nov 1960
2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
15 Nov 1960
Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo
15 Nov 1964
Fade Out-Fade In closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 199 performances
15 Nov 1964
Folies Bergere closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
15 Nov 1964
Oliver closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 774 performances
15 Nov 1965
Baker Street closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 313 performances
15 Nov 1965
George Abbott Theater (Adelphi 54 St) at 152 W 54th NYC demolished
15 Nov 1965
KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Nov 1965
US government sends 90000 soldiers to Vietnam
15 Nov 1967
The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta declares this day as Day of the Colombian Woman
15 Nov 1968
National Turn in Your Draft Card Day features draft card burning
15 Nov 1968
Yale University announces it is going co-educational
15 Nov 1968
U.S. premiere of film version of Morris L. Wests best seller The Shoes of the Fisherman
15 Nov 1969
Apollo 12 (ConradGordonBean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
15 Nov 1970
Marshall U football team wiped out in DC-9 air crash at Kenova West Virginia killing 75
15 Nov 1971
Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
15 Nov 1972
Dow Jones closes above 1000 for 1st time (1003.16)
15 Nov 1973
Good Evening opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 438 performances
15 Nov 1975
Spain Morocco and Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara
15 Nov 1976
Dont Step on My Olive Branch closes at Playhouse NYC after 16 performances
15 Nov 1976
Cleveland Browns Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks
15 Nov 1976
War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing
15 Nov 1980
Guinee-Bissau Premier Vieira fires President Luis Cabral
15 Nov 1980
Kimberley Santos 19 of Guam crowned 30th Miss World
15 Nov 1981
2nd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 2-returns to Earth
15 Nov 1981
Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired and working again
15 Nov 1981
Pakistan all out 62 v Australia at WACA Lillee 5-18
15 Nov 1981
Paul Bear Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
15 Nov 1981
Raise 11th studio album by Earth Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1982)
15 Nov 1983
First cruise missile placed at Greenham Common England
15 Nov 1984
Astronauts aboard Discovery pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
15 Nov 1984
Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is assassinated in his home city.
15 Nov 1985
Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
15 Nov 1985
Holmfriour Karlsdottir of Iceland 22 crowned 35th Miss World
15 Nov 1985
Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts 1000s killed
15 Nov 1986
Doubleday Publishing sells NY Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon
15 Nov 1986
FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Philadelphia
15 Nov 1986
SEC imposes a record 100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
15 Nov 1987
La Cage aux Folles closes at Palace Theater NYC after 1761 performances
15 Nov 1987
Sams Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett
15 Nov 1989
Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award
15 Nov 1991
Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long loses his steroids appeal and is suspended without pay by NFL for 4 weeks
15 Nov 1991
American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103
15 Nov 1993
Kentucky Cycle opens at Royale Theater NYC for 34 performances
15 Nov 1993
Twilight of the Golds closes at Booth Theater NYC after 29 performances
15 Nov 1993
23rd NYC Womens Marathon won by Uta Pippig in 22624
15 Nov 1993
24th NYC Marathon won by Andres Espinosa in 21004
15 Nov 1993
Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state
15 Nov 1994
1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel
15 Nov 1996
Chicago opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC
15 Nov 1997
Disneys Lion King sets Broadway record of 2700000 daily sale
15 Nov 2001
War in Afghanistan Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul
15 Nov 2001
OPEC announces that it intends to cut its crude oil output quotas by 1.5 million barrels per day effective but only if non-OPEC producers cut their output by 500000 barrels per day as well
15 Nov 2002
Argentina defaults on an 805 million World Bank payment.
15 Nov 2006
Casino Royale 21st James Bond film premieres in London starring Daniel Craig for the 1st time and Eva Green premieres in London
15 Nov 2007
the last direct-current distribution by Con Edison was shut down.
15 Nov 2008
Italy plunges into recession its first since the start of 2005 after GDP contracts a steeper-than-expected 0.5% in the third quarter
15 Nov 1945
H Lindsay and R Crouses State of the Union premieres in NYC
15 Nov 1945
Java Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government
15 Nov 1946
Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes kills 11
15 Nov 1952
Greek General Alexander Papagos wins elections
15 Nov 2008
Hong Kong becomes the second Asian economy to tip into recession its exports hit by weakening global demand
15 Nov 2008
Eurozone officially slips into recession for the first time since its creation in 1999 pushed down by recessions in Germany and Italy
15 Nov 2009
The National Statistical Service of Greece states that the country has been in recession since the beginning of the year
15 Nov 2012
A series of protests against austerity measures occur across Europe including Spain Portugal and Greece
15 Nov 2012
CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away)
15 Nov 2014
American harness racing trainerdriver Dave Palone sets the world record for wins when he drive Missy Tap Tina to the winners circle for his 16754th career victory
15 Nov 2015
Second Democratic presidential candidates debate broadcast by CBS held in Des Moines Iowa
15 Nov 2016
7.8 earthquake cuts off town of Kaikoura New Zealand raising sea bed by 4m and killing 2 people
15 Nov 2018
First group of 720000 Rohingya moved back to Myanmar from refugee camps in Bangladesh amid international criticism
15 Nov 2018
Edward Hoppers painting Chop Suey sells 92 million a record for the artist at auction in New York
15 Nov 2018
Jewellery that belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette is auctioned off in Geneva after not being seen for 200 years
15 Nov 2018
Archaeologists announce discovery of ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth supposedly founded by captives from Trojan War
15 Nov 2018
Large impact crater 31 km wide from iron meteorite identified under Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland
15 Nov 2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa Mays cabinet approves draft plan for countrys exit from the European Union (Brexit)
15 Nov 2018
Astronomers announce discovery of Super-Earth planet (3.2x bigger than Earth) orbiting red dwarf Barnards star 6 light years away
15 Nov 1913
Australasian Championships Mens Tennis Perth Australian Ernie Parker beats NZ namesake Harry Parker 2-6 6-1 6-3 6-2
15 Nov 1987
Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet retires from Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide with break trouble but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Nigel Mansell
15 Nov 1763
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
15 Nov 1969
The 1st ever colour television commercial in the UK for Birds Eye peas airs on ATV in the Midlands during a Thunderbirds episode
15 Nov 2012
Deep Horizon Oil Spill BP settles for 4.5 Billion
15 Nov 2012
The Eurozone economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.1% in GDP in the third quarter of following a fall of 0.2% in the previous quarter
15 Nov 1919
US Senate 1st invokes the Cloture Rule to end a filibuster passes Versailles Treaty [1]
15 Nov 1951
1st-class cricket debut of future great Pakistani batsman Hanif Mohammad scores 26 in drawn tour match Pakistan XI v MCC Lahore
15 Nov 2001
Microsoft releases the first Xbox game console in the US
15 Nov 2007
A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hits Bangladesh killing an estimated 5000 people and destroying Sundarbans the worlds largest mangrove forest
15 Nov 1527
Treaty of Schoonhoven Henry of the Palatinate Bishop of Utrecht cedes lands to the Habsburgs in return for security help against resistant citizens
15 Nov 1688
Prince William of Oranges army lands at Torbay England the Glorious Revolution commences
15 Nov 1763
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying MasonDixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
15 Nov 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
15 Nov 1956
Lil Abner opens at St James Theater NYC runs for 693 performances
15 Nov 1980
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (a rollercoaster) opens at Disney World in Florida
15 Nov 1981
Revival of Camelot opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC runs for 48 performances
15 Nov 1997
19th ACE Cable Awards Nickelodeon wins the Golden Cable ACE for The Big Help
15 Nov 2002
British drummer Ringo Starr inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall Of Fame [1]
15 Nov 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
15 Nov 2005
39th Country Music Association Awards Keith Urban & Gretchen Wilson win
15 Nov 1845
William Vincent Wallace conducts the premiere of his first opera Maritana at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London England
15 Nov 1884
European colonization and trade in Africa are officially regulated at the international Berlin Conference formalizing the Scramble for Africa among European powers
15 Nov 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]
15 Nov 1926
First formal radio network RCA takes over AT&Ts 25-station network (NBC) including flagship station WEAF in NYC
15 Nov 1935
A Night at the Opera comedy film directed by Sam Wood starring the Marx Brothers is released
15 Nov 1945
Rules revised for election of modern players to the Baseball Hall of Fame
15 Nov 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]
15 Nov 1979
Sir Anthony Blunt art advisor to the Queen is exposed in Parliament as the fourth man in a Soviet spy ring. He is then stripped of his knighthood and fellowship of Trinity College Cambridge.
15 Nov 1991
Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
15 Nov 2011
Istana Negara the new palace of the monarch of Malaysia with its 22 domes is inaugurated in Kuala Lumpur replacing the old palace
15 Nov 2013
5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik India
15 Nov 2013
Sony launches the Playstation Four selling one million units on the first day
15 Nov 2014
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia triggering a tsunami warning
15 Nov 2014
The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the governments handling of the case
15 Nov 2014
World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit which will focus on economic growth
15 Nov 1903
Eugen dAlberts opera Tiefland premieres at the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague Kingdom of Bohemia
15 Nov 1937
First US congressional session in air-conditioned rooms
15 Nov 1940
New York Citys Midtown tunnel linking boroughs of Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
15 Nov 1954
First 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
15 Nov 1969
The first color television commercial in the UK for Birds Eye peas airs on ATV in the Midlands during a Thunderbirds episode
15 Nov 1972
MLB Chicago White Sox slugger Dick Allen wins AL MVP
15 Nov 1978
MLB Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
15 Nov 1978
The documentary short Heartbeat in the Brain created by and starring Amanda Feilding screens at the Suydam Gallery and causes several viewers to faint during the films climax showing a performance of the ancient practice of trepanation
15 Nov 1980
The rollercoaster Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens at Disney World in Florida
15 Nov 1988
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
15 Nov 1989
Walter Davis of the Denver Nuggets begins NBA free throw streak that will extend to 53 games
15 Nov 1990
Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didnt sing on their album resulting in the duo being stripped of their Best New Artist Grammy and sparking a scandal
15 Nov 1993
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Myrtle Beach South Carolinsa on WYAV 104.1 FM
15 Nov 2015
France launches air strikes on Isis stronghold Raqqa in Syria in wake of terror attack on Paris
15 Nov 2015
Holly Holm defeats UFC Champion Ronda Rousey in an upset in Melbourne Australia