15th November anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1708
  • "Birth of William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister (1766–68) ."
• event
  • 1515
  • Thomas Wolsley invested as Cardinal
  • 1920
  • First meeting of the League of Nations (in Geneva)
  • 1949
  • India
  • "Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were executed at Ambala Jail, India for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi"
  • 1968
  • Great Britain
  • The Cunard liner ‘Queen Elizabeth’ was retired from service .
  • 1969
  • "American businessman Dave Thomas opened the first Wendys fast food restaurant in Columbus, Ohio"
  • 1969
  • "In Washington DC, 250,000 protesters held a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War"
  • 1979
  • Great Britain
  • "Respected British art historian Sir Anthony Blunt, retired Surveyor of the Queens Pictures, was revealed to have been a Soviet spy the mysterious fourth man in the Cambridge spy ring (Burgess-Philby-Maclean)" more
  • 1985
  • Anglo Irish Agreement signed
  • 1988
  • An independent state of Palestine was proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
  • 1999
  • The United Nations imposed sanctions on Afghanistan for failing to hand over wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden
• Death
  • 1787
  • Austria
  • "Death of Christoph Gluck, composer" more
  • 1958
  • "Death of Tyrone Power, American actor (‘The Mark of Zorro’ etc) ."
  • 1959
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of C.T.R. Wilson, Scottish physicist who won the Nobel Prize for developing the Wilson cloud chamber used in the study of radioactivity"
  • 1983
  • "Death of John Le Mesurier, British actor (played Sergeant Wilson in ‘Dad’s Army’)."
  • 1984
  • "Death of Baby Fae, the American baby who received a baboons heart to replace her own deformed one. She died 3 weeks after the transplant"
  • 1998
  • "Death of Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture), Trinidad-born American civil rights activist."