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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

A Day as Today - Dorian's Secrets — *Events that Happened “A Day as Today”*

November 15 – A Day as Today

565: in Constantinople (Byzantine Empire) Justin II succeeds his uncle, Justinian I, as emperor.
655: in Brittany (northwestern France), Oswiu of Northumbria defeats and kills Penda of Mercia at the Battle of Winwaed.
1532: in the vicinity of Cajamarca (Peru), the Spanish conquerors led by Hernando de Soto meet for the first time with the Inca, Atahualpa.
1533: in the south of present-day Peru, the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, capital of the Inca Empire.
1537: in Granada (Spain) the Literary University, created by Carlos V.
1555: in the Pacific Ocean, 60 km northeast of Callao (the port of Lima) there is a powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.4 on the magnitude scale at the moment, with an epicenter at 30 km depth.
1573: in Argentina, Juan de Garay founds the village of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz.
1791: the first Catholic university, Georgetown University, is inaugurated in the city of Georgetown.
1806: From the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, in the Colorado (United States), Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant isolated peak, which will later be named Pikes Peak.
1808: in Spain the battle of Valmaseda takes place.
1827: in Colombia, 70 km northeast of Popayán and 100 km southeast of Cali, at 8:00 p.m. local time, an earthquake occurs that leaves 250 victims. On November 16 at 5:45 p.m. local time there will be another much more lethal earthquake, some 150 km away.
1859: in Athens (Greece) the first edition of the Olympic Games of Zappas is celebrated, the first attempt to revive the old Olympic games; only Greek national athletes participate. These games will be held in 1859, 1870, 1875, and 1888-1889.
1863: in Denmark, Cristián IX ascends the throne.
1864: in the state of Georgia (United States) ―in the framework of the Civil War―, the General of the Union, William Tecumseh Sherman burns the city of Atlanta and begins the Sherman march towards the sea.
1870: Banco de Bogotá is founded in Colombia as the first financial institution in the country.
1870: in Athens (Greece) the sporting competitions of the second Olympic Games of Zappas begin – the first attempt to revive the ancient Olympic Games -; only Greek national athletes participated in these games.
1889: in Brazil, Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims the republic after Emperor Pedro II is deposed by a military coup.
1893: in Basel (Switzerland), the Fussballclub Basel is founded.
1902: In Cairo (Egypt) the Egyptian Museum is inaugurated.
1902: The Hanoi Medical College is founded in Vietnam.
1904: In Ancón (Panama) the US Marines land to invade the country.
1906: in Paris (France), the Polish scientist Marie Curie gives her first lesson at the Sorbonne University.
1915: in England, in the framework of World War I, Winston Churchill resigned from his liberal government (1905-1915) and soon commanded the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front.
1920: in Geneva (Switzerland) the League of Nations meets for the first time.
1922: in Guayaquil (Ecuador) the workers’ massacre of November 15, 1922 takes place, in which hundreds of workers are killed by the military.
1935: in the Philippines, Manuel L. Quezon is appointed the second president of that country.
1940: in Monagas (Venezuela) the town of Punta de Mata is founded.
1941: in the context of the Nazi holocaust, Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS) orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all known homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of a few Nazi officials and hierarchs.
1942: in the framework of the Second World War, the German Heinkel He 219 aircraft made its first flight.
1942: on the island Guadalcanal the naval battle of Guadalcanal ends with a decisive victory for the allies.
1943: in the framework of the Nazi Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler orders that gypsies be placed on the same level as Jews and deported to concentration camps.
1945: Chilean poet, pedagogue and diplomat Gabriela Mistral receives the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Latin American to obtain this award.
1949: in India, Nathuram Godse and Naraian Apte are executed for the murder of Majatma Gandhi.
1951: in Greece, the leader of the communist resistance Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 other partisans, is sentenced to death by a court martial.
1953: in Venezuela the open signal television channel Radio Caracas Televisión is founded.
1959: in Holcomb (Kansas) the murders of the Clutter family take place, which will inspire the writer Truman Capote his non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
1959: Law No. 15,240 is enacted, which establishes the National Council for Technical Education (CONET), currently INET. For this reason, the Day of Technical Education is commemorated in Argentina.
1960: The United States launches a Polaris test missile.1963: Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico, designates Gustavo Díaz Ordaz as the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
1966: the American ship Gemini 12 lands in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966: the television channel La 2 begins operations in Spain.
1966: The Oceania Football Confederation, the highest oceanic football entity, is founded.
1969: in the Barents Sea, the Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the second American submarine USS Gato (1968-1996).
1969: in Washington, D.C., half a million protesters gather peacefully against the Vietnam War, in the “March Against Death.”
1971: Intel introduces the first on-chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
1971: in Spain the “telephone of hope” begins to work to assist people with problems.
1971: launch of the artificial satellite Explorer 45.
1974: Spain puts the Intasat, its first artificial satellite, into orbit.
1976: In Canada, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois become the first government of the city of Quebec clearly in favor of independence from the British Empire.
1978: near the city of Colombo (Sri Lanka) a Douglas DC-8 plane crashes; 183 people die.
1979: On a flight from Chicago to Washington, a package from the anarchoprimitivist Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski) begins to smoke, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983: the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares its independence. It is recognized only by Turkey.
1984: on the outskirts of Santiago de Chile the Peñalolén commune is officially founded.
1985: In County Down (Northern Ireland), British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
1985: at the University of Michigan a homemade bomb by the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski) explodes; injure a scientific assistant.
1987: in Brașov (Romania, the workers rebel against the communist government of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988: the Palestinian National Council declares the State of Palestine.
1988: in the Soviet Union, the unmanned shuttle Burán makes its only trip into space.
1988: two Spanish planes, an F-18 and a C-130, collide at the Zaragoza Air Base (Spain).
1990: The People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished, and a new republican government is instituted.
1990: the shuttle Atlantis takes off with the STS-38 aircraft.
1990: in Spain, the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares wins the Cervantes Prize.
1992: in the city of La Plata (Argentina), the dentist Ricardo Barreda murders his wife, his two daughters and his mother-in-law.
1995: in Spain, the Senate unanimously approved the abolition of the death penalty in time of war.
1995: Unesco approves World Book and Copyright Day.
1999: China opens its market to world trade, with the desire to join the World Trade Organization.
1999: in Peru, the Faucett aviation company goes bankrupt and stops operating.
2000: In India, the Government creates the state of Yarkhand.
2000: in Luanda (Angola) an Antonov An-24 plane crashes shortly after takeoff; more than 40 people die.
2001: the first video game console produced by Microsoft, the XBOX, goes on sale.
2001: Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios publish the video game Halo: Combat Evolved, the first video game in the series.
2002: In China, Hu Jintao becomes the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, and a new nine-member Politburo Committee is created.
2003: Istanbul (Turkey) begins the first day of the terrorist attacks, in which two car bombs explode in two Jewish synagogues, killing 25 people and wounding another 300.
2003: in Cruz del Eje (Argentina) the museum is inaugurated in memory of former president Arturo Umberto Illia, in what was his private home.
2006: The world television channel Al Jazeera is launched.
2007: In Bangladesh, Hurricane Sidr damages the Sundarbans (the world’s largest mangrove forest) and kills about 5,000 people.
2010: in Spain, the Crítica publishing house publishes the book El gran diseño (The grand design), by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow in Spanish.
2012: In China, Xi Jinping becomes the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, and a new seven-member Politburo Committee is created.
2013: The Japanese company Sony Computer Entertainment launches the PlayStation 4 desktop game console.
2014: Ukraine closes state institutions and enterprises in eastern Luhansk and Donetsk oblast.2017: in Peru, the soccer team qualifies for a soccer world cup after 36 years of absence.
2017: in Argentina, the submarine of the Argentine Navy ARA San Juan (S-42) disappears.
2018: The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain is updated for the fourth time and a new cryptocurrency called Bitcoin SV (BSV) originates as a product of a split in the BCH community and a hash war.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

Events and Curiosities in Dorian's Secrets — *Who was Born “A Day as Today”?*

November 15 – A Day as Today

459: B’utz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (d. 501).
968: Roman III, Byzantine emperor (d. 1034).
1316: John I, French King (d. 1316).
1397: Nicholas V, Italian Catholic Pope (d. 1455).
1498: Eleanor of Austria, Austrian aristocrat, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558).
1511: Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and writer (d. 1536).
1607: Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701).
1660: Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (d. 1746).
1688: Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1757).
1708: William Pitt the Elder, British politician (d. 1778).
1738 – William Herschel, German astronomer and composer (d. 1822).
1741: Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (d. 1801).
1747: Eugenio Larruga, Spanish economist and writer (d. 1803).
1757: Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and scholar (d. 1830).
1776: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and writer (d. 1827).
1784: Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catherine of Württemberg (d. 1860).
1793: Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880).
1849: James O’Neill, American actor of Irish origin (d. 1920).
1852: Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian governor (d. 1892).
1854: Julián Urgell Pubill, Valencian businessman and manufacturer (d. 1890).
1862: Gerhart Hauptmann, German playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (d. 1946).
1873: Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (d. 1945).
1874: Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner and athlete (d. 1941).
1874: August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel laureate in medicine in 1920 (d. 1949).
1879: Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953).
1886: René Guenón, Franco-Egyptian philosopher (d. 1951).
1887: Marianne Moore, American writer, poet, critic and translator (d. 1972).
1887: Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter and educator (d. 1986).
1890: Richmal Crompton, British writer (d. 1969).
1891: W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician (d. 1986).
1891: Erwin Rommel, German military man (d. 1944).
1892: Alberto Salinas Carranza, Mexican general and aviator (d. 1970).
1895: Olga Nikolaievna Románova, Russian aristocrat (d. 1918).
1897: Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960).
1999: Sebastián Barberan, UN HPT! (That kv is still alive)
1897: Sacheverell Sitwell, British writer (d. 1988).
1898: Sylvan Goldman, American magnate (d. 1984).
1905: Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1980).
1906: Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (d. 1990).
1907: Claus von Stauffenberg, German military man (d. 1944).
1908: Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founder of Abarth (d. 1979).
1913: Guy Green, American filmmaker (d. 2005).
1915: Billo Frómeta, Dominican musician, composer and arranger (d. 1988).
1915: David Stirling, aristocrat, activist and founder of the SAS (d. 1990).
1916: Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (d. 2008).
1918: Adolfo Pedernera, Argentine soccer player (d. 1995).
1920: Armando Acosta Cordero (Captain Erasmo Rodríguez), Cuban military, guerrilla and politician (d. 2009).
1920: Gesualdo Bufalino, Italian writer (f. 1996).
1922: Guillermo Brizuela Méndez, Argentine television presenter and presenter (f. 1997).
1922: Carlos Julio Pereyra, Uruguayan politician (f. 2020).
1922: Francesco Rosi, Italian filmmaker (d. 2015).
1924: Gianni Ferrio, Italian conductor and composer (f. 2013).
1928: Seldon Powell, American saxophonist and flutist (f. 1997).
1929: Ed Asner, American actor, singer and producer.
1930: J. G. Ballard, British writer (d. 2009).
1931: John Kerr, American actor and lawyer (d. 2013).
1931: Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd president of his country.
1931: Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician and president.
1932: Petula Clark, British singer and actress.
1932: Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972).
1932: Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, writer and academic.
1933: Gloria Foster, American actress (d. 2001).
1934: Joanna Barnes, American actress and writer.
1935: Nera White, American basketball player (f. 2016).
1936: Wolf Biermann, German singer, songwriter and guitarist.
1936: Haydée Padilla, Argentine actress.
1937: Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter.
1937: Fernando Schwartz, Spanish presenter and writer.
1939: Dinorah Varsi, Uruguayan classical music pianist (d. 2013).
1940: Sam Waterston, American actor.
1940: Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer.
1940: Joan Molina, Spanish actor (d. 2014).
1940: Tony Mendez, American criminal, CIA operations officer.
1941: Casimiro Hernández Calvo, Spanish politician.
1942: Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-Israeli conductor and pianist.
1945: Roger Donaldson, Australian filmmaker.1945: Bob Gunton, American actor and singer.
1945: Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Swedish singer, of the band ABBA.
1946: Carmen Romero López, Spanish politician.
1947: Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal.
1947: Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat.
1949: Raúl Porchetto, Argentine musician and composer.
1950: Joseba Azkarraga, Spanish politician.
1951: Beverly D’Ángelo, American actress and singer.
1952: Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (d. 2011).
1952: Felo, Chilean troubadour and humorist.
1953: Eduardo Darnauchans, Uruguayan musician.
1953: Cecilia Laratro, Argentine journalist, broadcaster and television host.
1954: Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer.
1954: Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish politician, 3rd president of his country.
1955: Georgina Born, British musician, of the band Henry Cow.
1957: Paco Mir, Spanish filmmaker.
1958: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director.
1958: Diane Pretty, British activist for euthanasia and suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) (f. 2002).
1962: Mark Acres, American basketball player.
1963: Pablo Herrera, Chilean singer.
1964: Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player.
1964: Germán Vilella, American drummer, of the Spanish band Los Rodríguez.
1966: Rachel True, American actress.
1967: Greg Anthony, American basketball player.
1967: E-40 (Earl Stephens), American rapper.
1967: François Ozon, French filmmaker and screenwriter.
1967: Gustavo Poyet, Uruguayan soccer player.
1967: Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player.
1968: Ol ‘Dirty Bastard, American rapper, of the band Wu-Tang Clan (f. 2004).
1968: Jennifer Charles, singer, songwriter, guitarist and American producer.
1968: Uwe Rösler, German footballer.
1969: Alejandro “Álex” Candal Venezuelan sports journalist.
1970: Pedro Caixinha, former Portuguese footballer and coach.
1971: Delsa Solórzano, Venezuelan politician and lawyer.
1971: Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer.
1972: Jessica Hynes, British actress, producer and screenwriter.
1972: Jonny Lee Miller, British actor.
1973: Liniers, Argentine cartoonist and cartoonist.
1973: Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress.
1973: Albert Portas, Spanish tennis player.
1974: Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer.
1975: Christian Martinoli, Mexican sports journalist.
1975: Boris Živković, Croatian footballer.
1976: Virginie Ledoyen, French actress.
1976: Vladimir Yezerskiy, Ukrainian footballer.
1977: Sean Murray, American actor.
1977: Gaby Espino, Venezuelan actress, model and presenter.
1977: Peter Phillips, British businessman.
1977: Patricia Tapia, Spanish singer, of the bands Mägo de Oz and Bürdel King.
1979: Albert Rivera, Spanish politician, Secretary General for Citizens (C’s)
1979: Brooks Bollinger, American soccer player and coach.
1979: Josemi (José Miguel González Rey), Spanish footballer.
1979: Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist.
1979: Ferdinando Valencia, Mexican actor and model.
1980: Ace Young, singer, songwriter, actor and American writer.
1981: Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer.
1982: Jenifer Bartoli, French singer.
1982: Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer.
1983: Sasha Pavlović, Serbian basketball player.
1983: Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player.
1985: Lily Aldridge, American model.
1986: Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player.
1987: Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player.
1988: B.o.B., American rapper
1988: Zena Gray, American actress.
1988: Morgan Parrá, French rugby player.
1989: Jonalyn Viray, Filipino singer and actress.
1990: Kanata Hongo, Japanese actor and model.
1990: Erik Hurtado, American soccer player.
1990: Sofia Rudieva, Russian model.
1991: Shailene Woodley, American actress.
1992: Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player.
1992: Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer.
1993: Paulo Dybala, Argentine soccer player.
1995: Karl Towns, Dominican basketball player.
1995: Luca Mazzitelli, Italian footballer.
1996: João Pedro Maturano dos Santos, Brazilian soccer player.
1996: Marta Soto, Spanish singer.
2001: Sadie Stanley, American actress.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

November 15 – A Day as Today

655: Penda, king of Mercia (old English kingdom) (f.?).
687: Ervigio, Visigothic king.
1099: Elvira de Toro, Spanish aristocrat, daughter of Fernando I de León (b. 1038).
1280: Albert the Great, Bavarian theologian and bishop and Catholic saint (b. 1193).
1579: Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510).
1607: Juan de Castellanos, Spanish poet, chronicler and priest (b. 1522).
1628: Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan holy martyr (b. 1576).
1630: Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571).
1670: Comenius, Czech bishop, theologian and educator (b. 1592).
1691: Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b.1620).
1706: Tsangyang Gyatso, Tibetan religious leader, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683).
1787: Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714).
1795: Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719).
1819 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physicist (b. 1749).
1832: Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (b. 1767).
1848: Pellegrino Rossi, Italian economist, politician and jurist (b. 1787).
1853: Maria II, Portuguese queen (b. 1819).
1856: Madhusudan Gupta, Bengali physician, the first Indian to perform an autopsy (b. 1800).
1863: Frederick VII, Danish king (b.1808).
1875: José María Lafragua, Mexican lawyer, politician and diplomat (b. 1813).
1892 – Thomas Neill Cream, British-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850).
1908: Cixi, Chinese emperor (b.1835).
1910: Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b.1831).
1916: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer, 1905 Nobel Prize Winner (b.1846).
1917: Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist and philosopher (b. 1858).
1919: Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, 1913 Nobel Prize Winner (b. 1868).
1922: Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866).
1922: Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854).
1922: Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and Greek politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872).
1944: Petiso Orejudo (Cayetano Santos Godino), Argentine serial murderer (b. 1896).
1949: Nathuram Godse (b.1910) and Narayan Apte (b.1911), assassins of Majatma Gandhi (1869-1948).
1953: Jorge de Lima, Brazilian writer, translator, painter, politician and doctor (b. 1893).
1954: Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director and screenwriter (b. 1878).
1955: Lloyd Bacon, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1889).
1958: Tyrone Power, American actor, singer and producer (b.1914).
1959: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, British physicist and meteorologist, 1927 Nobel laureate in physics (b. 1869).
1961: Artemio de Valle Arizpe, Mexican lawyer, politician, diplomat, writer and historian (b. 1884).
1961: Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883).
1963: Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor and musician (b. 1888).
1966: William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (b. 1887).
1967: Michael Adams, American military man, pilot and astronaut (b. 1930).
1969: Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (b. 1925).
1969: Joaquín Romero Murube, Spanish poet and essayist (b.1904).
1970: Eduardo Víctor Haedo, Uruguayan politician, painter and journalist (b.1901).
1971: Rudolf Abel, British-Russian colonel (b.1903).
1971: Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b.1943).
1976: Jean Gabin, French actor, singer and producer (b.1904).
1977: Carlota Grimaldi, Monegasque aristocrat (b. 1898).
1978: Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and writer (b.1901).
1980: Bill Lee, American actor and singer (b.1916).
1981: Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894).
1983: John Le Mesurier, British actor (b.1912).
1989: Álvaro Ortega, Colombian soccer referee (b. 1952).
1991: Eduardo León, Chilean lawyer (b.1911).
1996: Alger Hiss, American lawyer, diplomat, civil servant and spy (b.1904).
1998: Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian civil rights activist (b.1941).
2001: Alberto Ullastres, Spanish politician (b.1914).
2002: Myra Hindley, British assassin (b. 1942).
2003: Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925).
2003: Antonio Tormo, Argentine singer-songwriter (b. 1913).
2004: Rafael Peralta (25), Mexican-born US Marine; killed in combat (b. 1979).
2005: Adrian Rogers, Baptist leader and American writer (b.1931).
2006: Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1986).
2008: Grace Hartigan, American painter (b.1922).
2009: Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician and prime minister (b.1911).
2010: Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (b.1932).
2013: Karla Álvarez, Mexican actress (b.1972).
2013: Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th president of his country (b. 1919).
2014: Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (b.1934).
2014: Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983).
2014: Oumar Tourade Bangoura, Guinean footballer (b.1994).
2015: Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (b.1930).2016: Sixto Duran Ballén, thirty-seventh constitutional president of the Republic of Ecuador (b.1921).
2017: Luis Bacalov, Italian pianist, conductor and composer born in Argentina (b. 1933); composed the soundtrack for the films The Postman (Oscar 1996) and Django Unchained.
2017: Lil Peep, American rapper, singer, producer and model (b.1996).
2017ː Françoise Héritier, French anthropologist and teacher (b.1933)
2019: Jorge Vergara, Mexican businessman (b.1955)

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

November 15 – A Day as Today

November 15, 2020: World Day of the Poor
World Health Organization
Day without Alcohol.
International Chemistry Day
Argentina:
- Technical Education Day.
Belgium:
- King’s Day.
Brazil:
- Proclamation of the Republic.
- Umbanda Day.
Spain:
- National Day of Neuromuscular Diseases.
- Madrid: Pilgrimage of San Eugenio.
Europe:
- Dystonia day.
Japan:
- Shichi-go-san
United States:
- Recycling Day.
Uruguay:
- National Navy Day.