15 November

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.

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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

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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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