Historical Events - November 15

1945 : Venezuela entered the United Nations.

1949 : Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were hanged for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

1971 : Intel released the world’s first commercial microprocessor chip, the 4004.

1989 : Sachin Tendulkar made his international debut.

1996 : United Nations announced Sasakawa Environmental Award to Indian scientist Dr. Trilokinath Khushu.

2000 : Jharkhand became the 28th state.

2006 : Al Jazeera English launched worldwide.

2012 : Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee was inaugurated.

Famous Birthdays   – November 15  

1738: William Herschel, German-British astronomer, and composer.

1866: Cornelia Sorabji, the first female advocate in India, and the first woman to practice law in India and Britain.

1875: Birsa Munda, a tribal freedom fighter from Jharkhand, India.

1885: Gijubhai Badheka, a pioneer in the field of modern child education.

1891: Erwin Rommel, a German general, and military theorist.

1908: Carlo Abarth, founder of the Abarth Company.

1915: V. R. Krishna Iyer, a noted judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism in India. 

1927: Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, Indian Singer.

1936: Tara Singh Her, an Indian-Canadian journalist, and publisher.

1955: M. A. Yusuff Ali, a UAE-based Indian billionaire businessman.

1986: Sania Mirza, an Indian professional tennis player. 

Death Anniversaries   – November 15

1630: Johann Kepler, German mathematician, and astronomer.

1706: Buddhist 6th Dalai Lama.

1937: Jaishankar Prasad, an Indian writer.

1949: Nathuram Godse and Narayan Dattatraya Apte, main accused in the assassination plot of Mahatma Gandhi.

1978: Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist.

1982: Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Indian activist, a pioneer of the Bhudan movement, and a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.

1998: Stokely Carmichael, African-American political activist.

2015: Saeed Jaffrey, a British-Indian actor.

2020: Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian film actor, director, playwright, writer and poet.