Talk:October 15
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Selected anniversaries entry for this day. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before editing this entry. --mav 00:30, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
October 15: Simchat Torah in Judaism ends at sunset (2006); White Cane Safety Day in the United States.
- 1582 - The Gregorian calendar was implemented to replace the Julian calendar, in use since 45 BC.
- 1894 - The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French military, was wrongly arrested for treason.
- 1917 - Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (pictured) was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany.
- 1987 - The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England.
- 2003 - Chinese space program: Shenzhou 5, China's first manned space mission was launched, carrying astronaut Yang Liwei.
Recent days: October 14 – October 13 – October 12
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- 1928 - Graf Zeppelin lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Outside of "this day in history"-type webpages (VERY bad source), I could only find one website that gives this info. Her maiden voyage was sometime in the teens of October, but I can't pin down the exact days to any reasonable degree of certainty. --mav 03:51, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I removed "October 15th is the last day to file an Individual Income Tax Return with the Internal Revenue Service with a granted additional extension." as it doesn't belong in the intro, and I don't know what country it applies to. DJ Clayworth 18:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] hunley
I question the claim H. L. Hunley was "first successful submarine", when she sank on two trials and her only operational mission, as well as the fact she was preceded by David Bushnell's Turtle in 1776.
