What National Day is November 15

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Historical Events on November 15
Famous Birthdays on November 15
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Chinese New Year
Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan)
National Day of Prayer
Armed Forces Day
Memorial Day

November 15 holidays in 2022

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Historical Events on November 15

1777: The Continental Congress finally approves the Articles of Confederation after a year and four months of solid debate during the American Revolutionary War.
1791: The first Catholic college in the United States – Georgetown University – opens for the first time on this day.
1864: Union General William Sherman makes his now famous March to the Sea.
1920: In Geneva, Switzerland, the League of Nations is assembled for the first time.
1922: At a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, approximately a thousand people are massacred during a strike.
1926: NBC Radio Network starts 24 stations.
1933: The first election is held in the country of Thailand.
1942: During WWII, the Battle of Guadalcanal comes to a end. It’s an overwhelming victory for the Allies.
1943: Under order from Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler, all Gypsies are ordered to be put into concentration camps as if they were Jews.
1959: Members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas occur. These events lead Truman Capote to pen his non-fiction book “In Cold Blood.”
1966: Gemini 12 lands safely in the Atlantic Ocean thereby completing Project Gemini’s final mission.
1971: The microprocessor – the 4004 – is released by Intel. It’s the first single-chip processor to be released.
1985: A package from the Unabomber that was addressed to a professor of the University of Michigan explodes – injuring a research assistant.
1988: The unmanned space shuttle Buran is launched into space by the Soviet Union.
1990: Flight STS-38 of the Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on this date.

Famous Birthdays on November 15

German-English astronomer William Herschel is born in 1738.
French-Canadian poet and playwright, Joseph Quesnel is born in 1746.
German lawyer and politician, Friedrich Ernst Scheller is born in 1791.
German novelist, playwright, poet and Nobel Prize laureate, Gerhart Hauptmann is born in 1862.
American physician Sara Josephine Baker is born in 1873.