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Events from History on November 15

1315 : Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I (II?) of Austrian
1316 : Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later
1348 : Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1491 : 6 Jews & 5 Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain
1491 : Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle"
1492 : Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 : In Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
1527 : Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods)
1532 : Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
1533 : Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco
1577 : Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington
1583 : Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees
1660 : 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1679 : English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill
1688 : Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England
1715 : Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
1727 : NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of
1727 : a Christian" from abjuration oath
1763 : Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line
1763 : between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1777 : Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
1791 : 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1806 : 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Govt, publishes 1st issue
1806 : Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)
1813 : Allied troops occupies Groningen
1813 : Tax revolt in Amsterdam
1824 : Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
1826 : Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
1827 : Creek-indians lose all their property in US
1832 : Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation," premieres
1835 : HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti
1837 : Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system
1845 : Opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
1849 : 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
1852 : H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #21 Lutetia
1864 : 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
1864 : Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
1869 : Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1870 : Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union
1881 : American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1882 : British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
1884 : Colonization of Africa orgainized at Intl conference in Berlin
1887 : British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1889 : Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
1892 : A Charlois discovers asteroid #344 Desiderata
1892 : Max Wolf discovers asteroids #343 Ostara & #549 Jessonda
1899 : Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill & wife captured in Natal
1901 : Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs Gus Ruhlin in SF
1901 : James J Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1902 : Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
1903 : Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague
1904 : King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1911 : Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins
1914 : Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
1919 : Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1920 : Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg
1920 : Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
1920 : League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
1921 : KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1922 : British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party
1924 : Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
1925 : B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #3881 Doumergua
1925 : E Delporte discovers asteroid #1052 Belgica
1926 : 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
1926 : AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
1930 : E Delporte discovers asteroid #1176 Lucidor & #3567
1931 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1207 Ostenia & #5703 Hevelius
1932 : Walt Disney Art School created
1934 : Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
1935 : Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
1936 : A Patry discovers asteroid #1515 Perrotin & #1797 Schaumasse
1936 : Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1937 : 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1938 : 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
1938 : Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1939 : Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1939 : FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
1939 : Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 : Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1940 : 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1940 : 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls
1940 : NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
1941 : Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1941 : Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
1944 : Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
1945 : The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of
1946 : Joseph McCarthy's HUAC interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
1946 : Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
1947 : Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG
1947 : Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal
1948 : William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada
1949 : KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 : WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 : 1st Negro player in organized hockey-Arthur Dorrington signed
1950 : Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey (Atl City
1950 : Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
1951 : NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
1953 : WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 : WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 : 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1955 : Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1956 : "Li'l Abner" opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances
1956 : Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in NYC
1957 : US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
1959 : Cleve Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest
1959 : Robert White & Perry Smith kill Clutters
1959 : run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
1960 : USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1961 : Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
1961 : Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
1961 : UN bans nuclear arms
1962 : Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
1964 : Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
1964 : KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 : Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
1965 : Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 : Gemini XII (Lovell/Aldrin) returns to Earth
1967 : Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
1967 : Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1967 : WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 : 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four"
1969 : 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)
1969 : 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
1969 : 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War
1969 : Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, Fla
1969 : Wendy's Hamburgers opens
1971 : Intel advertises 4004-processor
1972 : Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 : Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1972 : White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
1973 : Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war
1974 : Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK
1975 : Miss Teenage America Pageant
1976 : Syrian army conquerors Beirut
1977 : Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1978 : 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1978 : Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London
1979 : ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1979 : Brit govt identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1979 : E F Helin discovers asteroid #4015 Wilson-Harrington
1980 : Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
1981 : "Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 48 performances
1982 : E Bowell discovers asteroid #3537, #6630 Skepticus, #7077 & #7162
1982 : Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
1983 : 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 : Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
1986 : 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts)
1987 : 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
1987 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #6379, #6596, #6897 & #7464
1987 : Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
1987 : NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
1987 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 : Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #6086 & #6476
1988 : 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses
1988 : PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
1988 : Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1989 : "Batman" is released on video tape
1989 : "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
1989 : Aaron Sorkin's "Few Good Men," premieres in NYC
1989 : Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
1989 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 : E W Elst discovers asteroid #7651 Villeneuve
1990 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #5827 & #7469
1990 : Pres Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 : Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album
1990 : T Seki discovers asteroid #5966 Tomeko
1990 : US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
1991 : Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1992 : Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
1993 : F Uto discovers asteroid #8041
1993 : Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
1993 : Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
1993 : T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #8197
1994 : "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
1994 : 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
1994 : Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1994 : Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1995 : "Master Class" opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances
1995 : K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #7674
1995 : Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
1996 : "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
1996 : T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #7538
1996 : Y Shimizu & T Urata discover asteroid #7502
1997 : 19th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
1997 : William Shatner (66) weds Norine Kidd
1999 : Next transit of Mercury visible in North America

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