November 15
The Day Of The Imprisoned Writer is observed internationally on this date.
There are
46 days remaining in 2016.
There are
39 days until Christmas.
Events
1532 – Commanded by
Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under
Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader
Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca,
arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.<--[There would be no rejoicing.]
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in
Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.<--[Still no rejoicing.]
1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the
Articles of Confederation.
1806 –
Pike expedition: Lieutenant
Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named
Pikes Peak.)
1864 – American Civil War: Union General
William Tecumseh Sherman begins his
March to the Sea.
1914 –
Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "
Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the
National Football League.
1915 –
Winston Churchill resigns from his Government, and soon commands the 6th Battalion of the
Royal Scots Fusiliers on the
Western Front.
1920 – First assembly of the
League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1926 – The
NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the
Jefferson Memorial.
1942 – World War II: The
Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1949 –
Nathuram Godse and
Narayan Apte are executed for
assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1959 – The Clutter Family is murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book
In Cold Blood.
1967 – The only fatality of the
North American X-15 program occurs
during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot
Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 – Cold War: The
Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the
American submarine USS Gato in the
Barents Sea.
1969 -
Janis Joplin was arrested during a gig in Tampa, Florida, after badmouthing a policeman and using vulgar and indecent language. Joplin became upset after police moved into the hall forcing fans to move back to their seats. As the singer left the stage she confronted a detective calling him 'a son of a bitch' and told him she would kick his face in.
1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the
4004.
1979 – A package from
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1987 -
Dire Straits became the first act to sell over three million copies of an album in the UK. Brothers in Arms contained five, top 40 singles: ‘
Money for Nothing,’ ‘
So Far Away,’ ‘
Walk of Life,’ ‘
Brothers in Arms’ and ‘
Your Latest Trick.’ The album is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history.
1990 -
Milli Vanilli producer
Frank Farian held a press conference to confirm the rumours that the two members of the group
Rob and
Fab had not sung on any of their hit records.
1992 - Ozzy Osbourne announced his retirement from touring after a gig in California, [ironically] saying "Who wants to be touring at 46?"
Births
1738 – William Herschel; 1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe

; 1891 – Erwin Rommel; 1905 - Mantovani♪ ♫; 1906 – Curtis LeMay****; 1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg; 1919 – Judge Joseph Wapner (
The Peoples' Court); 1925 – Howard Baker; 1928 – C. W. McCall♪ ♫(sang "
Convoy"; 1929 – Ed Asner; 1932 – Petula Clark♪ ♫(sang "
Downtown"); 1933 - Clyde McPhatter♪ ♫(The Drifters); 1937 –
Yaphet Kotto; 1940 – Sam Waterston (
The Killing Fields, Law & Order); 1945 - Frida Lyngstad♪ ♫(ABBA); 1945 – Bob Gunton (prison warden in
The Shawshank Redemption); 1951 – Beverly D'Angelo (
National Lampoon's Vacation movies); 1952 – Randy Savage ("Oh, yeah, brother!"); 1954 – Tony Thompson

(The Power Station, Chic); 1955 – Joe Leeway♪ ♫(Thompson Twins); 1956 – Michael Hampton

(Parliament-Funkadelic); 1957 – Kevin Eubanks

(The Tonight Show Band); 1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard♪ ♫; 1972 – Jonny Lee Miller(
Hackers, Elementary); 1974 – Chad Kroeger♪ ♫(Nickelback); 1977 – Sean Murray ('Special Agent Timothy McGee' on
NCIS)
Deaths
1630 – Johannes Kepler; 1949 – Narayan Apte & Nathuram Godse (assassins of Mohandas K. Ghandi); 1954 – Lionel Barrymore; 1958 – Tyrone Power; 1967 – Michael J. Adams (X-15 pilot); 1996 – Alger Hiss; 2015 – P. F. Sloan (wrote the songs "Eve of Destruction" & "Secret Agent Man")