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

* 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 becomes Preses.
* 1908 - Leopold II o Belgium sells the Congo Free State (nou the Democratic Republic o the Congo) tae the Belgian state.
* 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 Mahatma Gandhi.
* 1953 - The succar spreader is patentit in Wast Germany.
* 1955 - The Leeberal Democratic Pairty o Japan is creatit.
* 1983 - Declaration o the Turkish Republic o Northren Cyprus. It is recognisit anly bi Turkey.
* 1985 - The Anglo-Erse Agreement is signed, giein the Republic o Ireland the richt tae mediate in the Northren Ireland conflict.
* 1988 - An independent state o Palestine is declarit.
* 1990 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches, on mission STS-38.
* 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.
* 2004 - Colin Powell propales his demission as Unitit States Secretar o State.
* 2007 - Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killin 3,447 fowk.
* 2017 - The result o a postal survey suggest a 61.6% level o support for same-sex marriage in Australie.
* 2017 - The militar taks ower in Zimbabwe, as lang-term Preses Robert Mugabe is placit unner hoose reest.
* 2017 - The UK Supreme Coort in Lunnon rules that the Scots Govrenment is alloued tae introduce minimum pricin for alcohol.
* 2017 - Leonardo da Vinci's pentin "Salvator Mundi" smashes the record for a wirk o airt sauld at auction.
* 2017 - Argentine submarine "ARA San Juan" disappears aff the coast o soothren Argentinae, wi 44 fowk on baird.
* 2018 - Several Breetish govrenment meenisters propale thair demissions ower Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal, incluidin Brexit Secretar Dominic Raab an Wirk an Pensions Secretar Esther McVey.

## Births

* 1708 - William Pitt, 1st Yerl 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)
* 1889 - King Manuel II o Portugal (d. 1932)
* 1891 - Erwin Rommel, German general (d. 1944)
* 1922 - Francesco Rosi, Italian director an screenwriter (d. 2015)
* 1929 - Ed Asner, American actor
* 1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norse-Swadish sangster
* 1958 - Lesley Laird, Scots politeecian
* 1983 - Fernando Verdasco, Spainish tennis player
* 1993 - Paulo Dybala, Argentine fitbawer

## Daiths
* 655 - Penda, King o Mercia
* 1028 - Constantine VIII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
* 1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer an mathematician (b. 1571)
* 1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi o Cheenae (b. 1835)
* 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scots physicist an meteorologist (b. 1869)
* 1978 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)

## Halidays

* Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)
* Independence Day (Palestine)
* Belgium:
**Day o the German-speakin Community
**King'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

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