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People born on 15 November
1866 - Cornelia Sorabji - India's first female barrister.
1875 - Birsa Munda, India's famous freedom fighter, a tribal leader.
1884 – German writer Grey Hopptmann, who won the Nobel Prize, was born.
1915 - Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer - was a judge of India.
1986 - Jyoti Prakash Nirala - Awarded 'Ashok Chakra' was one of the Martyr Garuda Commandos of the Indian Air Force.
1986 – Sania Mirza, the country's female tennis player, was born.
Died on 15 November
1630 - Euhann Kepler, the famous German astronomer, died at the age of 59.
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad - Hindi litterateur.
1938 - Mahatma Hansraj - Famous Arya Samaj leader, social reformer and educationist of Punjab.
1961 - Bankim Mukherjee - first communist leader to be elected MLA in India.
1982 – Acharya Vinayak Narhari Bhave alias Vinoba Bhave, the basis of the Bhoodan movement, died at Punar Ashram.
1996 - RC Prasad Singh - India's famous poet, storyteller and monographer.
2013 - Kripalu Maharaj - the famous saint of Mathura, who built the famous 'Prem Mandir'.
2015 - Saeed Jaffrey - was an Indian-born British actor.
2017 - Kunwar Narayan - was counted among the respected poets of Hindi.
2020 - Veteran Bengali film actor Soumitra Chatterjee (85) passed away at Bell View Clinic, Kolkata.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 15th November
- Shri Birsa Munda Jayanti (Tribal Pride Day).
- Shri Jyoti Prakash Nirala Jayanti (Labdha Ashoka Chakra).
- Jharkhand State Formation Day (15 November 2000).
- National Newborn Baby Week (15 to 21 November).
Important Events of 15th November
1777 - The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the Continental Congress.
1808 – Mahmud II (1808–1839) Mustafa IV (1807–1808) is elected as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1830 - Social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy left for England.
1859 - The first Zappa Olympics are started in Greece.
1884 – A conference begins in Berlin, the capital of Germany, to distribute colonies to European countries in the continent of Africa.
1901 - Miller Rees patents an electrically powered hearing aid (hearing aid).
1902 - The Hanoi Exhibition is established in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam.
1905 - King Camp Gillette is granted a patent for a safety razor by the US Patent Office. In this way, for the first time, the shaving blade with both sides came in front of the world.
1920 – The first meeting of the League of Nations takes place in Geneva, Switzerland.
1936 - The Anti-Comintron Treaty is signed between Nazi Germany and Japan.
1947 - The World Health Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
1949 - Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte, convicted of assassinating Mahatma Gandhi, were hanged.
1955 - Trade agreement between Poland and Yugoslavia is signed.
1961 - The United Nations banned nuclear weapons.
1966 - Gemini 12's mission ends successfully.
1971 - Intel launches the world's first single chip microprocessor 'Intel 4004'.
1978 – A plane taking from Mecca to Indonesia crashed in Sri Lanka. In which 183 people died.
1988 - P.L.O. Palestine declared an independent nation by the President of the United States, Yasser Arafat.
1989 - Sachin Tendulkar, the great Indian batsman made his Test debut against Pakistan. He played his last Test on 14 November 2013 against West Indies.
1989 – Waqar Younis made his Test debut in Karachi, Pakistan.
1989 - France conducts nuclear tests on the island of Maura.
1998 - US President Bill Clinton cancels his visit to the Asian countries of India and Pakistan.
2000 - The coup in Fiji declared illegal.
2000 - Jharkhand became the 28th state of India. @arun@
2001 - Documents related to the making of an atomic bomb were found from an al-Qaeda hideout.
2003 – A bomb explodes near a Jewish shrine in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 16 and injuring 150.
2004 - The two hundredth anniversary of the naming of Australia Money.
2004 - Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, resigns from his post.
2007 - A severe earthquake of magnitude 7.7 hits Chile.
2007 - Ariana-5 rocket launches UK and Brazil telecommunications satellites into space.
2008 - Y Venugopal Reddy, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, is included in a task force set up by the United Nations to examine reforms in the global financial system.
2008 - Yogendra Maqbal formed a new party named Rashtriya Bahujan Congress.
2012 - Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
2019 - The government declares a state of emergency after nearly 6 feet (1.87 m) of water flooded the Italian city of Venice.
2020 - 15 countries signed the world's largest trade agreement under the Regional Economic Comprehensive Partnership (RCEP).
2020 - The Baghjan gas well in Assam is completely (successfully) brought under control 172 days after it caught fire.
2020 - Afghanistan's Interior Affairs Ministry has released a list announcing that about 70 Taliban commanders were killed, 152 Pakistani fighters killed in an operation launched a month earlier in Helmand and Kandahar.
2020 - China succeeds in targeting underwater warships from a distance of thousands of km, destroying targets by firing its DF-26B and DF-21D missiles.
