Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 15
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This is a list of selected November 15 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.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.
More events: November 14 – November 15 – November 16
