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There are many events that happened on this date in history. Here are just a few of them!

November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 46 days remain until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1806 – Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.

1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea.

1920 – The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".

1965 – Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.

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".

2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console.

2013 – Sony releases the PlayStation 4 (PS4) game console.

2022 – The world population reached 8 billion.

BIRTHS

Pre-1600

1397 – Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1455)

1498 – Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)

1738 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822)

1873 – Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (d. 1945)

1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (d. 1960)

1919 – Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (d. 2017)

1929 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2021)

1932 – Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress

1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)

1940 – Tony Mendez, American CIA technical operations officer (d. 2019)

1940 – Sam Waterston, American actor

1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2023)

1948 – Jimmy Choo, Malaysian fashion designer

1951 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer

1967 – Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic

1977 – Sean Murray, American actor[24]

DEATHS

1527 – Catherine of York, English princess (b. 1479)

1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)

1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (b. 1723)

1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)

1919 – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)

1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)

1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)

1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)

2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925)

2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)

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