November 15th

The November 15th is the 319e Jour of the Année (320e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 46 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 1315 : Battle of Morgarten between the three Swiss cantons and the troops of the Habsbourg. The Swiss ones push back the troops of the duke of Austria and confirm their emancipation of the supervision of the Habsbourg.

  • 1492 : Christophe Colomb announces in his newspaper the use of the Tabac by the Indiens.
  • 1533 : The Spaniards take Cuzco, city of the South-east of the Peru in the middle of the the Andes.
  • 1577 : The English navigator Sir Francis Drake installs for a Round the world tour.
  • 1715 : signature of the treated of Antwerp.
  • 1796 : Beginning of the Battle of Arcole, within the framework of the French countryside of Italy.
  • 1862 : the French dancer Emma Livry is burned alive on scene during the repetitions of a ballet.
  • 1889 : Abdication of Pierre II with the Brazil, which becomes a Republic.

XXe century

  • 1908 : the State independent of Congo, possession personal of the king of the Belgians Léopold II, becomes a colony under the Belgian name of Congo.

  • 1916 : Meeting with Chantilly (Oise), on the initiative of the general Joffre, of a new interallied military conference, which will finish the following day, to stop the plan of the operations of 1917.
  • 1920: The Société of the Nations holds its first meeting with Geneva.
  • 1928 : The Great fascistic Council becomes constitutional institution in Italy.
  • 1935 : Manuel Quezon becomes the first president of the the Commonwealth of Philippines.
  • 1956 : blue helmets of UNO arrive in Egypt.
  • 1971 : The first Microprocesseur (4004) of the history is marketed.
  • 1976 :
    • the Syrian army makes sure of the control of Beirut, practically putting a term at confrontations which had lasted for 18 months with the Lebanon.
    • Rene Lévesque and the Left Québécois, social democrat, seizes the power and clearly becomes the first government of the Quebec at the 20th century in favor of the Indépendance.
  • 1980 : For the first time for 155 years, a Pape (Jean-Paul II) has gone in France.
  • 1983 : independence of the Turkish part of Cyprus.
  • 1988 :
    • At the conclusion of a meeting of the Palestinian National council with Algiers, Yasser Arafat proclaims the creation of an independent State in Palestine.
    • First and last flight of the Soviet Space shuttle Buran without crew.
  • 1995 : The plan of reform of the Social security, presented to the National Assembly by Alain Juppe, will cause starting from the 24 a general strike in the public transport which will paralyze the France during three weeks.
  • 1997 : Boutros Boutros-Ghali is elected at the post of first general secretary of the Francophonie.
  • 1999 : Law instituting the Civil pact of solidarity (PACS).

XXIe century

  • 2001 : The Parliament Macedonian grants more rights to the albanophones of Macedonia.

  • 2002 : Hu Jintao, 59 years, is elected general secretary of the central committee of the Chinese Communist party to replace Jiang Zemin, 76 years, which remains however president of the central military Commission of PCC.
  • 2003 :
    • the Iraqi temporary Government council announces that the American administration of occupation will give the capacity to an Iraqi government of transition before June; George W. Bush ensures that the the United States will not once withdraw a Iraq the installation of this transition government.
    • a double murder with the car bomb aiming at the most important synagog of the Turkey and another smaller made at least 20 died and 303 wounded with Istanbul, into full Shabbat.
  • 2004 :
    • By the agreement of Paris, the Iran agrees to suspend its activities of enrichment of Uranium against a European of co-operation Nucléaire, commercial and political promise.
    • the Council of State cancels the elections of the May 23rd in the district of the Windward Islands, most important of French Polynésie.
    • the American Secretary of State Colin Powell gives its resignation to George W. Bush; Condoleezza Rice succeeds to him.
    • UNO unanimously approves a resolution imposing a immediate Embargo 13 month on the weapons on the Ivory Coast.
  • 2005 :
    • Eight members of the collective of the voluntary Reapers of transgenic cultures are condemned by the Court of Appeal of Toulouse with custodial sentences, firm for Jose Bove - four months, with deferment for the others; they will decide to be provided in cassation.
    • the Israeli government and the Palestinian Autorité manage an agreement on the opening, the November 25th, of the point of passage of Rafah between the Band of Gaza and the Egypt.
    • the Princess Sayako, only daughter of the emperor Akihito, wife a commoner, Yoshiki Kuroda, thus giving up its royal statute.
  • 2006 :
    • a Tsunami of 40 cm touched in evening certain coasts of the north of the Japan following a Earthquake of a magnitude of 8,1 close to the Russian archipelago of the Kouriles.
    • Launching of the television channel Al Jazeera English.
  • 2007 : The Cyclone Sidr devastates the coasts of the Bangladesh and causes the death of more than 3000 people.

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • In Belgium, on November 15th is the Fête of the King, since it is the Saint Léopold (first king of the Belgians). During the regency of the prince Charles, this day was called Fête of the dynasty . Since, this day is sometimes incorrectly called thus.
  • In Belgium, festival of the the German-speaking Community.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Holy Maclou or Holy Malo bishop of Aleth.

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

See too

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