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

• 655 –
  Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
• 1315 –
  Battle of Morgarten: the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
• 1532 –
  Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
• 1777 –
  American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
• 1949 –
  Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
• 1966 –
  A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
• 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 –
  In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
• 2000 –
  A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.

Who were born on November 15?

• 1511 –
  Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
• 1859 –
  Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
• 1881 –
  Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (d. 1960)
• 1895 –
  Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1925 –
  Howard Baker, American political advisor
• 1928 –
  C. W. McCall, American singer
• 1932 –
  Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher
• 1957 –
  Harold Marcuse, American historian
• 1972 –
  Jonny Lee Miller, English actor
• 1979 –
  Brooks Bollinger, retired American football quarterback

Who died on November 15?

• 1630 –
  Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
• 1832 –
  Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767)
• 1916 –
  Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846)
• 1919 –
  Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
• 1922 –
  Nikolaos Stratos, Greek politician (b. 1872)
• 1922 –
  Petros Protopapadakis, Greek politician (b. 1854)
• 1945 –
  Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (b. 1864)
• 1949 –
  Narayan Apte, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1961 –
  Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
• 2003 –
  Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)