Talk:November 15

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November 15: Republic Day in Brazil (1889); Shichigosan in Japan

655 – Penda of Mercia was defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in what is modern-day Yorkshire.
1889 – A military coup led by Field Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca overthrew Emperor Pedro II and declared Brazil a republic.
1920 – The first general assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva, Switzerland, with 42 founding members.
1971 – Intel released the 4004 4-bit central processing unit (pictured), the world's first commercially available microprocessor, capable of executing approximately 60,000 instructions per second.
1985 – Northern Ireland peace process: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement, giving the Irish Government an advisory role in Northern Ireland's government.
1988 – The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, unmanned, on her first and only space flight.

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Could not be confirmed. --mav 05:17, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Trivial. It is an important submarine so the day it was launched should have a note about it. --mav 05:17, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)