November 15<\/p>\n
1532 \u2013 Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa outside Cajamarca, and arrange a meeting on the city plaza the following day.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 The 2nd Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation and sends them to the states for ratification.<\/p>\n
1806 \u2013\u00a0 While on mission to explore the south and western sections of the Louisiana Purchase, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike espies a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains, later named for him.<\/p>\n
1849 \u2013 Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana<\/em> explode as she pulls from the dock in New Orleans, killing more than 150 people.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his ‘March to the Sea’, leaving Atlanta to attack towards Savannah.<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.<\/p>\n 1920 \u2013 The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, one of its first acts being to establish Danzig, Prussia, (now Gdansk Poland) as a Free City under its protection.<\/p>\n 1926 \u2013 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.<\/p>\n 1938 \u2013 Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 President Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy with the sinking of a Japanese battleship, destroyer and 4 transports.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 SS Reichsf\u00fchrer Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed by hanging at Ambala Central Jail, Haryana state, India,\u00a0for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 Craig Breedlove drives his General Electric J79 turbojet engine powered Spirit of America – Sonic 1 <\/em>car at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to a land speed record of 600.601 mph which stands for nearly 4 years before being exceeded.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 Gemini 12 completes the program’s final mission, splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 The only fatality of the North American X-15<\/em> program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed midair over the Mojave Desert.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 At a depth of 200 feet, the Soviet submarine K-19<\/em> collides with the U.S. submarine USS Gato<\/em> in the Barents Sea with no casualties reported, but heavy damage to the Soviet boat.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Intel releases the world’s first commercial single chip microprocessor, the 4004.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 American Airlines Flight 444, a Boeing 727 flying from Chicago to\u00a0 Washington National Airport makes an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport after a bomb sent by Unabomber Ted Kazinski partially detonates in the cargo hold, damaging the plane and causing 12 passengers to be treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 A research assistant and the intended recipient, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan are injured when a package from the Unabomber explodes.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9, crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, killing 28 of the 82 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Microsoft launches the Xbox game console.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Sony releases the PlayStation 4 game console.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 The world population reached 8 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 15 1532 \u2013 Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa outside Cajamarca, and arrange a meeting on the city plaza the following day. 1777 \u2013 The 2nd Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation and sends them to the states for ratification. 1806 \u2013\u00a0 While on … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61819"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97726,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61819\/revisions\/97726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}