Editing November 15 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1917]] &ndash; ''[[Parliament of Finland|Eduskunta]]'' declares itself the supreme state power of [[Finland]], prompting its [[Independence of Finland|declaration of independence]] and secession from [[Soviet Russia|Russia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://demokraatti.fi/100-vuotta-sitten-15-marraskuuta-eduskunta-julistautui-korkeimman-vallan-kayttajaksi-vallankumous-peruutettiin|title=100 vuotta sitten 15. marraskuuta: Eduskunta julistautui "korkeimman vallan" käyttäjäksi – vallankumous peruutettiin|first=Topi|last=Juga|work=[[Demokraatti]]|date=November 15, 2017|language=fi|access-date=November 15, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1920]] &ndash; The first assembly of the [[League of Nations]] is held in [[Geneva]], [[Switzerland]].
*  1920   &ndash; The [[Free City of Danzig]] is established.
*[[1922]] &ndash; At least 300 are [[1922 Guayaquil general strike|massacred]] during a general strike in [[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pineo |first=Ronn F. |date=1988 |title=Reinterpreting Labor Militancy: The Collapse of the Cacao Economy and the General Strike of 1922 in Guayaquil, Ecuador |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |volume=68 |issue=4 |doi=10.2307/2515679 |page=729|jstor=2515679 }}</ref>
*[[1928]] &ndash; The [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution|RNLI]] lifeboat [[RNLB Mary Stanford (ON 661)|''Mary Stanford'']] capsizes in [[Rye Harbour]] with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.<ref name=RNLI>{{cite web|url=https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/lifeboat-stations/rye-harbour-lifeboat-station/station-history-rye-harbour|title=Rye Harbour Lifeboat: station history |publisher=RNLI |accessdate=13 January 2021}}</ref>
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Thailand]] holds [[1933 Siamese general election|its first election]].
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Nazi Germany]] bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of [[Kristallnacht]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=1938: Key Dates|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/1938-key-dates|access-date=2022-01-17|website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org|language=en}}</ref> 
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Naval Battle of Guadalcanal|Battle of Guadalcanal]] ends in a decisive [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] victory.
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[The Holocaust]]: German [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] leader [[Heinrich Himmler]] orders that [[Romani people|Gypsies]] are to be put "on the same level as [[Jews]] and placed in [[Internment#Concentration camp|concentration camp]]s".
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Nikos Beloyannis]], along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the [[Communist Party of Greece]].
*[[1955]] &ndash; The first part of the [[Saint Petersburg Metro]] is opened.
*[[1957]] &ndash; Short Solent 3 [[1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash|crashes]] near [[Chessell]].<ref name="Times1957-11-18">{{cite news | title=45 Dead in Flying Boat Crash| work=The Times | date=1957-11-18 | location=London | page=12 | issue=54001}}</ref>
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Clutter family murders|Four members of the Clutter family are murdered]] near [[Holcomb, Kansas]], by [[Perry Edward Smith|Perry Smith]] and [[Richard Hickock]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Flowers|first1=R. Barri|last2=Flowers|first2=H. Loraine|title=Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Co.|date=2001|isbn=9780786410378|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gh6q_-Vzc0YC|page=33}}</ref> a crime later detailed by [[Truman Capote]] in his 1966 [[non-fiction novel]] ''[[In Cold Blood]]''.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,899952,00.html "Anatomy of a Murder"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. December 22, 1967. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101615/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C899952%2C00.html |date=July 21, 2013 }}</ref>
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Craig Breedlove]] sets a land speed record of 600.601&nbsp;mph (966.574&nbsp;km/h) in his car, the [[Spirit of America (automobile)|Spirit of America]], at the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]] in [[Utah]].<ref name="Twite">{{cite book|last=Twite|first=Mike|title=World of Automobiles, Volume 2|publisher=Orbis Publishing|year=1974|page=231|chapter=Breedlove: Towards the sound barrier}}</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Project Gemini]]: ''[[Gemini 12]]'' completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the [[Atlantic Ocean]].
*[[1967]] &ndash; The only fatality of the [[North American X-15]] program occurs during the [[X-15 Flight 3-65-97|191st flight]] when Air Force test pilot [[Michael J. Adams]] loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the [[Mojave Desert]].
*[[1968]] &ndash; The [[Cleveland Transit System]] becomes the first transit system in the [[Western Hemisphere|western hemisphere]] to provide direct rapid transit service from [[Cleveland|a city's downtown]] to [[Cleveland Hopkins International Airport|its major airport]].
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: The [[Soviet submarine K-19]] collides with the [[United States Navy|American submarine]] [[USS Gato (SSN-615)|USS ''Gato'']] in the [[Barents Sea]].
*  1969   &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: In [[Washington, D.C.]], 250,000–500,000 protesters staged a [[Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam#November 15, 1969, Moratorium March on Washington|peaceful demonstration against the war]], including a symbolic "March Against Death".
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Intel]] releases the world's first commercial single-chip [[microprocessor]], the [[Intel 4004|4004]].
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[René Lévesque]] and the ''[[Parti Québécois]]'' [[1976 Quebec general election|take power]] to become the first [[Quebec]] government of the 20th century clearly in favor of [[Quebec sovereignty movement|independence]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; A chartered [[Douglas DC-8]] [[Loftleiðir Flight 001|crashes]] near [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]], killing 183.
*[[1979]] &ndash; A package from Unabomber [[Ted Kaczynski]] begins smoking in the cargo hold of [[American Airlines Flight 444|a flight]] from [[Chicago]] to [[Washington, D.C.]], forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Northern Cyprus|Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus]] declares independence; it is [[Foreign relations of Northern Cyprus|only recognized by Turkey]].
*[[1985]] &ndash; A research assistant is injured when a package from the [[Unabomber]] addressed to a [[University of Michigan]] professor explodes.
*  1985   &ndash; The [[Anglo-Irish Agreement]] is signed at [[Hillsborough, County Down|Hillsborough Castle]] by [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] and Irish [[Taoiseach]] [[Garret FitzGerald]].
*[[1987]] &ndash; In [[Brașov]], [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]], [[Brașov Rebellion|workers rebel]] against the communist regime of [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]].
*  1987   &ndash; [[Continental Airlines Flight 1713]] crashes during takeoff from [[Stapleton International Airport]] in [[Denver]], Colorado, killing 25.<ref name="Final Report AAR-88-09">{{cite journal |date=September 27, 1988 |title=Continental Airlines, Inc., Flight 1713, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14, N626TX, Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, November 15, 1987 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR8809.pdf |journal=Aircraft Accident Report |publisher=[[National Transportation Safety Board]] |id=NTSB/AAR-88/09 |access-date=September 1, 2016}} – [https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR88-09.pdf Copy at] [[Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University]] (note the ERAU copy does not include the errata sheet, and may be older than the one on the NTSB website).</ref>
*[[1988]] &ndash; In the [[Soviet Union]], the uncrewed [[Buran (spacecraft)|Shuttle ''Buran'']] makes its only space flight.
*  1988   &ndash; [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]: An independent [[State of Palestine]] is proclaimed by the [[Palestinian National Council]].
*  1988   &ndash; The first [[Fairtrade certification|Fairtrade]] label, [[Stichting Max Havelaar|Max Havelaar]], is launched in the [[Netherlands]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; The Communist [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]] is disestablished and a new [[Bulgaria|republican government]] is instituted.
*1990   &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] is launched on [[STS-38]], a [[Classified information in the United States|classified]] mission for the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]].<ref>{{cite web |title=STS-38 |url=http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-38.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030174606/http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-38.htm |archive-date=October 30, 2013 |access-date=February 26, 2014 |website=Spacefacts}}</ref>
*[[1994]] &ndash; A [[1994 Mindoro earthquake|magnitude 7.1 earthquake]] hits the central Philippine island of [[Mindoro]], killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to {{convert|8.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} high.<ref>{{Cite web|title=15 November 1994, Mw 7.1, Mindoro, Philippines|url=http://itic.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2129&Itemid=3131|access-date=2022-03-19|website=itic.ioc-unesco.org|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2000]] &ndash; A chartered [[Antonov An-24]] [[2000 ASA Pesada Antonov An-24 crash|crashes]] after takeoff from [[Luanda]], [[Angola]], killing more than 40 people.
*  2000   &ndash; [[Jharkhand]] officially [[Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000|becomes]] the 28th [[States of India|state of India]], formed from [[List of districts of Bihar|eighteen districts]] of southern [[Bihar]].<ref name=a>{{cite book|title=The Unrest Axle: Ethno-social Movements in Eastern India edited by Gautam Kumar Bera|pages=60–61|isbn=9788183241458|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9qrmTdshzKQC&q=Bihar+State+reorganization+bill&pg=PA60|last1=Bera|first1=Gautam Kumar|year=2008|publisher=Mittal Publications }}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Microsoft]] launches the [[Xbox (console)|Xbox]] game console in [[North America]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Davies|first=Jamie|date=2020-06-07|title=Looking Back at Xbox Launch Titles|url=https://www.gamegrin.com/articles/looking-back-at-xbox-launch-titles/|access-date=15 November 2021|website=GameGrin|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Hu Jintao]] becomes [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] and a new nine-member [[Politburo Standing Committee]] is inaugurated.
*[[2003]] &ndash; The first day of the [[2003 Istanbul bombings]], in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.
*[[2006]] &ndash; ''[[Al Jazeera English]]'' launches worldwide.
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Cyclone Sidr]] hits [[Bangladesh]], killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest [[mangrove]] forest, the [[Sundarbans]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Xi Jinping]] becomes [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] and a new seven-member [[Politburo Standing Committee]] is inaugurated.
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Hong Kong High Court|Hong Kong's High Court]] bans elected politicians [[Yau Wai-ching]] and [[Baggio Leung]] from the city's [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Parliament]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Haas|first1=Benjamin|title=Hong Kong court bans pro-independence politicians from office|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/15/hong-kong-bans-pro-democracy-politicians-after-beijing-rewrites-oath-law|work=The Guardian|date=15 November 2016}}</ref> 
*[[2017]] – A [[2017 West Attica floods|flood]] a few miles outside of [[Athens]] results in the death of 25 people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Group) |first=Radiotileoptiki S. A. (OPEN Digital |date=2022-11-15 |title=15 Νοεμβρίου 2017: Πέντε χρόνια από τη φονική πλημμύρα στη Μάνδρα που κόστισε τη ζωή σε 24 ανθρώπους |url=https://www.ethnos.gr/greece/article/232839/15noembrioy2017pentexroniaapothfonikhplhmmyrasthmandrapoykostisethzohse24anthropoys |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=ΕΘΝΟΣ |language=el}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[Lewis Hamilton]] wins the [[2020 Turkish Grand Prix|Turkish Grand Prix]] and secures his [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|seventh drivers' title]], equalling the all-time record held by [[Michael Schumacher]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Turkish Grand Prix 2020 race report & highlights: Lewis Hamilton seals historic 7th title with peerless wet-weather victory in Turkish Grand Prix {{!}} Formula 1®|url=https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.hamilton-seals-historic-7th-title-with-peerless-wet-weather-victory-in.4wK1atemiXDvWXQxOknL4J.html|access-date=2021-05-17|website=www.formula1.com|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; The [[world population]] reached [[Day of Eight Billion|eight billion]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=World set to reach 8 billion people on 15 November 2022 |url=https://www.unfpa.org/press/world-set-reach-8-billion-people-15-november-2022 |access-date=8 October 2022 |website=United Nations Population Fund |language=en}}</ref>