What are the important events that happened on November 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 15: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 15 is the 319^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 2, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,768 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecaenneagon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 94 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,712 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 15 Historical Events

• 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).
• 1939 –
  In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
• 1951 –
  Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
• 1959 –
  Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
• 1966 –
  Gemini program: Gemini 12 completes the program’s final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1969 –
  Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March Against Death”.
• 1979 –
  A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
• 1987 –
  Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
• 2005 –
  Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.

Who were born on November 15?

• 1891 –
  Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, “The Desert Fox” (d. 1944)
• 1922 –
  Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004)
• 1925 –
  Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
• 1963 –
  Benny Elias, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1968 –
  Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and film director
• 1982 –
  D. J. Fitzpatrick, American Football League kicker
• 1984 –
  Gemma Atkinson, English actress
• 1985 –
  Lily Aldridge, American fashion model
• 1988 –
  Zena Grey, American actress
• 1991 –
  Shailene Woodley, American actress

Who died on November 15?

• 1670 –
  John Amos Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)
• 1794 –
  John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
• 1795 –
  Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
• 1922 –
  Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician (b. 1866)
• 1922 –
  Petros Protopapadakis, Greek politician (b. 1854)
• 1959 –
  Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
• 1976 –
  Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
• 1994 –
  Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
• 2003 –
  Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2009 –
  Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, Serbian religious figure (b. 1914)