This Day in History
15 Nov 1315
Battle of Morgarten Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
15 Nov 1348
Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
15 Nov 1491
Anne of Brittany becomes devoted to end la guerre folle
15 Nov 1492
In La Guardia Spain 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
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Baby Fae dies
Baby Fae a month-old infant who had received a baboon-heart transplant dies at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda California. T...
Erwin Rommel is born
Erwin Rommel the German commander known as the Desert Fox for his cunning in North Africa during World War II is born in Heidenheim Germany.Rom...
Brazil’s last emperor deposed
After a 49-year reign Pedro II the second and last emperor of Brazil is deposed in a military coup.The Brazilian monarchy was established in 1822 when Portu...
First stock ticker debuts
On this day in 1867 the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the stock market by making up-to-th...
Georges Clemenceau named French prime minister
On November 15 1917 with his country embroiled in a bitter international conflict that would eventually take the lives of over 1 million of its young men 76-...
Second moratorium against the war held
Following a symbolic three-day March Against Death the second national moratorium opens with mass demonstrations in San Francisco a...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs heckled at university
Gen. Earle Wheeler Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff addresses a gathering at Brown University and approximately 60 students walk out to protest his defen...
Craig Breedlove sets new land-speed record
On November 15 1965 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah 28-year-old Californian Craig Breedlove sets a new land-speed record600.601 miles an hour...
President Carter hosts shah of Iran
On this day in 1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the shah of Iran and his wife Empress (or Shahbanou) Farrah to Wash...
Zebulon Pike spots an imposing mountain
Approaching the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains during his second exploratory expedition Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a distant mountain peak that l...
Final installment of A Tale of Two Cities is published
On this day in 1859 Charles Dickens serialized novel A Tale of Two Cities comes to a close as the final chapter is published in Dickens circ...
Elvis makes movie debut in Love Me Tender
On this day in 1956 Love Me Tender featuring the singer Elvis Presley in his big-screen debut premieres in New York City at the Paramount Theater. Set in Tex...
Plane crashes into Sri Lankan plantation
A plane carrying Muslim pilgrims from Mecca to Indonesia crashes in Sri Lanka on this day in 1978 killing 183 people.The Icelandic Airlines DC-8 was chartered ...
Accused of rape, James Montgomery’s struggle for justice begins
Mamie Snow a mentally disabled white woman from Waukegan Illinois claims that James Montgomery a black veteran factory worker and homeowner raped her. Mon...
Nikita Khrushchev challenges United States to a missile “shooting matchâ€
In a long and rambling interview with an American reporter Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev claims that the Soviet Union has missile superiority over the United...
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