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15 November, 2006
The Al Jazeera English news channel is launched.
15 November, 2005
Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
15 November, 2004
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey leaves office, three months after resigning due to a gay extra-marital affair. State Senator Richard Codey takes over as interim governor.
15 November, 2003
The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on November 20.
15 November, 2002
Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
15 November, 2000
A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
15 November, 1993
13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
15 November, 1990
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
15 November, 1990
Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
15 November, 1988
In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.
15 November, 1988
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
15 November, 1988
The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
15 November, 1987
Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
15 November, 1985
A research assistant is injured as a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
15 November, 1985
The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
15 November, 1983
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
15 November, 1979
A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
15 November, 1978
A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
15 November, 1976
René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
15 November, 1971
Intel releases worlds first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
15 November, 1970
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon.
15 November, 1969
Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
15 November, 1969
Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death."
15 November, 1969
Dave Thomas opens the first Wendys fast food restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.
15 November, 1967
The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft, and is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
15 November, 1966
Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
15 November, 1966
A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
15 November, 1960
The Polaris missile is test launched.
15 November, 1959
Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
15 November, 1958
Morocco promulgates a press code.
15 November, 1949
Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
15 November, 1948
Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
15 November, 1943
Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." (see Porajmos)
15 November, 1942
World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
15 November, 1942
World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
15 November, 1941
Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
15 November, 1939
In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
15 November, 1935
Canada and the United States signed the reciprocal trade agreement in Washington.
15 November, 1926
The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
15 November, 1920
First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
15 November, 1889
Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
15 November, 1864
American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Shermans March to the Sea.
15 November, 1854
In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.
15 November, 1806
Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).
15 November, 1791
The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
15 November, 1777
American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
15 November, 1533
Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
15 November, 1515
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal
15 November, 1315
Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft wins the battle against Habsburg.
15 November, 655
Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.

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