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What happened in history on this day: November 15?
On November 15 in ...
- 1763 - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
- 1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
- 1791 - First Catholic college in the US opens, Georgetown.
- 1806 - First US college magazine, Yale Literary Cabinet, publishes first issue.
- 1864 - First US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, New York.
- 1864 - USA Army General Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1867 - Stock tickers are introduced at the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1869 - Free US postal delivery formally inaugurated.
- 1881 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1902 - A meteorite falls to earth, landing in Sharpsburg, Kentucky, USA. The main piece weighs 181 pounds.
- 1919 - US Senate first invokes closure to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty).
- 1926 - NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations.
- 1935 - Commonwealth of Phillipines inaugurated, within the United States of America.
- 1937 - First congressional session in air-conditioned chambers.
- 1938 - The US Mint releases the President Thomas Jefferson 5-cent coin to circulation.
- 1939 - Social Security Administration approves first unemployment check.
- 1940 - First 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime in US.
- 1957 - US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and US$3,000 fine.
- 1965 - At the Cherry Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney, Roy Disney, and Florida Governor Hayden Burns make the first public announcement of plans to build a new Disney theme park near Orlando.
- 1966 - Gemini XII returns to Earth.
- 1969 - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War.
- 1972 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 is launched to study gamma rays.
- 1977 - US President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran.
- 1985 - In separate events, mail bombs kill two people in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 1987 - 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9 die in crash at Denver, Colorado, USA.
- 1988 - 91-metre radio telescope dish at Green Bank, West Virginia collapses.
- 1990 - US President George Bush signs the Clean Air Act of 1990.
- 1991 - Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive).
- 2001 - Microsoft launches the Xbox video game system in North America. Price is US$299. The system features four controller ports, one controller, 8 GB hard drive, 733 MHz Intel main processor, 250 MHz NVidia XGP graphics processor, 64 MB RAM, 3D audio support, Ethernet port, broadband Internet connection. Games come on dual-layer DVD-ROM discs that can store 9 GB of data. The system can also play DVD movies. 500,000 units are sold in the first seven days; 1.5 million in the first month.
- 2006 - Start of the Sales and Use Tax in Puerto Rico; a response to the Puerto Rico budget crisis of May 2006.
- 2006 - The State of Hawaii bans smoking in all enclosed public places.
- 2006 - In the Kuril Islands, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs. A tsunami with a recorded wave height of 176 cm damages a dock at Crescent City, California.
- 2008 - In Washington, D.C., leaders of the "G20" nations, representing 90 percent of global GDP, meet for an economic summit, for the first time ever.
- 2020 - NASA and SpaceX launch the SpaceX Crew-1 mission from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A to the ISS, the first operational flight of the Crew Dragon capsule.
Births on November 15
- 1815 - Birth of John Banvard in New York City, New York, USA; painted world's largest painting (3-mile canvas).
- 1879 - Birth of Lewis Stone in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Prisoner of Zenda).
- 1881 - Birth of Franklin P Adams in Chicago, Illinois, USA; columnist (Information Please).
- 1887 - Birth of Georgia O'Keeffe in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA; painter (Cow's Skull).
- 1887 - Birth of Marianne Moore in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; poet (Pulitzer Prize - 1951 - Collected Poems).
- 1902 - Birth of Jack Ingram in Illinois, USA; actor (Melody Ranch, Annie Oakley, The Cisco Kid, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Lone Ranger).
- 1919 - Birth of Carol Bruce in Great Neck, New York, USA; actress (Lillian Carlson - WKRP in Cincinnati, General Hospital, Knot's Landing).
- 1919 - Birth of Joseph Albert Wapner in Los Angeles, California, USA; judge (California state Superior Court), TV judge (People's Court, Animal Court).
- 1929 - Birth of Edward Asner in Kansas City, Kansas, USA; actor (Lou Grant - Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant).
- 1930 - Birth of Whitman Mayo in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Grady - Sanford and Son).
- 1932 - Birth of Clyde McPhatter in Durham, North Carolina, USA; singer (Dominoes, Drifters, "A Lover's Question", Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987)).
- 1933 - Birth of Barbara Carson in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country).
- 1934 - Birth of Joanna Barnes in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Parent Trap, Spartacus, Goodbye Charlie, 21 Beacon Street, Dateline: Hollywood).
- 1937 - Birth of Yaphet Kotto in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe).
- 1937 - Birth of Little Willie John AKA William Edward John in Cullendale, Arkansas, USA; singer ("Sleep", "Talk to Me Talk to Me", "Fever").
- 1939 - Birth of Thalmus Rasulala [Jack Crowder] in Miami, Florida, USA; actor (Blacula, Roots).
- 1940 - Birth of Sam Waterston in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Law and Order, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate).
- 1946 - Birth of Janet Lennon in Culver City, California, USA; singer (Lennon Sisters).
- 1954 - Birth of Beverly D'Angelo in Columbus, Ohio, USA; actress (Vacation, European Vacation, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Talk to Me).
- 1955 - Birth of Oliver Conant in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Summer of '42).
- 1968 - Birth of Brenda Alyce Bassett in Kokomo, Indiana, USA; Miss Indiana-America (1991).
- 1968 - Birth of James Brady in Brooklyn, New York, USA; columnist (New York Post).
Deaths on November 15
- 1984 - Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center.
- 1996 - Death of Alger Hiss, U.S. State Department official (born 1904).
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