Historical Events on November 15

• 655 Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Bernicia.
• 1315 Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
• 1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
• 1491 Anne of Brittany becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle"
• 1492 In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
• 1515 Thomas Wolsey is invested as an English Cardinal
• 1527 Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods)
• 1532 Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
• 1660 First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)
• 1679 English House of Commons accepts Exclusion Bill
• 1688 Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay, England; the 'Glorious Revolution' commences
• 1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
• 1727 NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
• 1763 Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line 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 Government, publishes 1st issue
• 1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak in Colorado
• 1813 Allied troops occupies Groningen
• 1813 Tax revolt in Amsterdam
• 1824 Series of fires kills 10 in Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1826 Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
• 1827 Creek-indians lose all their property in US
• 1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system
• 1845 Opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
• 1849 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
• 1854 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
• 1864 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
• 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 European Colonization and trade in Africa is officially regulated at the international Berlin Conference, formalizing European powers "Scramble for Africa"
• 1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
• 1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
• 1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
• 1903 Eugen d'Albert's opera "Tiefland" premieres in Prague
• 1919 US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
• 1920 Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen" premieres in Nuremberg
• 1920 Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
• 1920 League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva
• 1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
• 1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
• 1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
• 1926 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
• 1932 Walt Disney Art School created
• 1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
• 1935 Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
• 1935 "A Night at the Opera", directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released
• 1936 Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
• 1937 First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
• 1938 First telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
• 1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
• 1939 The first unemployment compensation law, under the Social Security Act, that of the District of Columbia, was approved for grants by the Social Security Board
• 1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
• 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
• 1942 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
• 1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
• 1945 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame
• 1946 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
• 1949 KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, California (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1949 WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1950 Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed, by Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
• 1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pakistan XI v MCC, Lahore
• 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
• 1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
• 1987 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
• 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 Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet retires from Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide with break trouble but wins his 3rd World Formula 1 Drivers Championship by 12 points from Nigel Mansell
• 1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapses
• 1988 Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
• 1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
• 1988 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• 1989 "Batman" film is released on video tape
• 1989 "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
• 1989 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
• 1989 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album
• 1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
• 1991 Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
• 1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
• 1992 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
• 1992 Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
• 1992 42nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Alan Kulwicki wins
• 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 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
• 1994 "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
• 1994 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
• 1994 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
• 1995 "Master Class" opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances
• 1995 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
• 1996 "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 performances
• 1997 19th ACE Cable Awards: Nickelodeon wins the Golden CableACE for "The Big Help"
• 1999 Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
• 2000 A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
• 2000 New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India