15 November

The 15t o November is the 319t day o the year (320t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 46 days bidin.

Events

Banner o Brazil showin the nicht sky on 15t November 1889.

• 655 - Battle o Winwaed: Penda o Mercia is defeatit bi Oswiu o Northumbria.
• 1688 - William II, Keeng o Scots lands at Brixham, statirtin the Glorious Revolution.
• 1825 - John II o Portugal recognises the unthirldom o Brazil.
• 1889 - Emperor Pedro II o Brazil is overthrown. Deodoro da Fonseca declares Brazil a republic an acomes Preses.
• 1920 - In Geneva, the first sittin o the League o Naitions occurs.
• 1945 - Venezuela jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 1949 - Nathuram Godse an Narayan Apte are executit for the murther o Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
• 1983 - Declaration o the Turkish Republic o Northren Cyprus.
• 2000 - In Indie, the state o Jharkhand is creatit oot o pairt o the state o Bihar.
• 2003 - Bomb attacks on synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 25 fowk.
• 2007 - Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killin 3,447 fowk.

Births

William Herschel

• 1316 - John I o Fraunce (d. 20 Nov. 1316)
• 1397 - Pape Nicholas V (d. 1455)
• 1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl o Chatham, Prime meenister o Great Breetain (d. 1778)
• 1738 - William Herschel, German-Inglis astronomer an componer (d. 1822)
• 1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1946)
• 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American penter (d. 1986)
• 1891 - Erwin Rommel, German general (d. 1944)
• 1897 - Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politeecian (d. 1960)
• 1907 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German activist (d. 1944)
• 1922 - Francesco Rosi, Italian director an screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1929 - Ed Asner, American actor
• 1930 - J. G. Ballard, Inglis writer (d. 2009)
• 1931 - Mwai Kibaki, former Preses o Kenyae
• 1942 - Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-Israeli pianist an conductor
• 1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norse-Swadish sangster
• 1954 - Aleksander Kwasniewski, former Preses o Poland
• 1977 - Peter Phillips, Breetish ryal
• 1983 - Fernando Verdasco, Spainyie tennis player
• 1986 - Sania Mirza, Indie tennis player
• 1991 - Shailene Woodley, American actress

Daiths

• 655 - Penda, Keeng o Mercia
• 1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer an mathemateecian (b. 1571)
• 1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi o Cheenae (b. 1835)
• 1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Pols writer (b. 1846)
• 1949 - Nathuram Godse, assassin o Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1949 - Narayan Apte, conspirator against Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor, sangster an producer (b. 1914)
• 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scots pheesicist an meteorologist (b. 1869)
• 2016 - Sixto Duran Ballen, 37t Preses o Ecuador (b. 1921)

Halidays

• Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)
• Independence Day (Palestine)
• Belgium:
  • Day o the German-speakin Community
  • Keeng's Feast
• The 15t o November is the eat day o the follaein saunts:

St. Albert the Great

St. Zachary

St. Leopold

St. Abibus

St. Arnulf

St. Zachariah

St. Secundus, Fidentian, & Varicus

St. Desiderius

St. Findan

St. Gaius o Korea

St. Hugh Faringdon, Blessed

St. Hugh Green, Blessed

Bl. John Eynon

Bl. John Rugg

Bl. John Thorne

St. Luperius

St. Machudd

St. Malo

Bl. Richard Whiting

Bl. Roger James

St. Paduinus