Are you looking forward to that perfect date today? Do you have a feeling that this could be the best day of your life? How about we reminisce the major events that happened on this day in history?
We have come up with a list of historic events that took place in different geographic regions on November 15. Take a look!
- 1902 – Leopold II, King of Belgium, almost assassinated by the Italian anarchist
- 1904 – King C. Gillette patented the Gillette razor blade.
- 1920 – League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva.
- 1934 – Nobel for chemistry was awarded to Harold C Urey.
- 1946 – Baseball player, Ted Williams, was picked as AL MVP.
- 1948 – Mackenzie King retired after 22 years of being the Canadian Prime Minister.
- 1954 – 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over the North Pole began.
- 1961 – UN banned nuclear arms.
- 1969 – An estimated 2 million people took part in the Vietnam War Moratorium Demonstration across the United States.
- 1971 – Intel advertised a 4004-processor.
- 1974 – In the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency was formed in Paris within the OECD framework.
- 1985 – Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.
- 1988 – 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapsed.
- 1990 – US President George W. Bush signed the Clear Air Act.
- 1992 – Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career.
- 1999 – Representatives from China and the United States signed a major trade agreement that involved China’s membership in the World Trade Organization.
- 2003 – First day of the Istanbul Bombings.
- 2004 – Maria Sharapova became the first Russian to win tennis season-ending WTA Tour Championship.
- 2011 – Drake’s “Take Care” 2nd studio album was released, becoming Grammy Award Best Rap Album in 2013.
- 2017 – Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of “Salvator Mundi” sells for $450.3 million at auction in New York, a world record price for any artwork.