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This is a lists selected November 15 anniversaries that appear in 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. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.

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Intel 4004
Presidential inauguration of Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel L. Quezon
William Tecumseh Sherman
King James II
Pedro II of Brazil
Main façade of the Castellania Palace
Edoardo Agnelli
Xi Jinping
Buran
Detail from Fountain of Time sculpture
Evangelos Zappas

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Blurb	Reason
Republic Day in Brazil (1889)	Proclamation article not up to scratch, and Brazil article doesn't cover in detail.
; Shichi-Go-San in Japan	refimprove
1315 – A 1,500-strong Swiss force ambushed a group of Austrian soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire on the shores of the Ägerisee.	10+ {cn} tags
1688 – Prince William of Orange landed at Brixham in Devon, on his way to depose his uncle and father-in-law King James II, the last Catholic monarch of England.	Date not cited
1920 – The semi-autonomous Free City of Danzig was created in order to give Poland access to a well-sized seaport.	unreferenced section
1968 – Vietnam War: American forces launched Operation Commando Hunt, a large-scale bombing campaign to prevent the People's Army of Vietnam from transporting personnel and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh trail.	self-contradictory
1971 – Intel released the 4004, the world's first commercially available microprocessor, capable of executing approximately 60,000 instructions per second.	refimprove section
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois took power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century that was clearly in favour of independence from Canada.	refimprove
1983 – Turkish Cypriots on the northeastern portion of Cyprus declared the creation of a new state known as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which currently remains recognised only by Turkey.	external links
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.	unreferenced section
1988 – Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat proclaimed the creation of the State of Palestine as "the state of Palestinians wherever they may be".	Declaration of independence has a bunch of cn tags within main content, State of Palestine 'needs additional citations for verification' (oct 2024)

Eligible

565 – Justin II became Byzantine emperor, having allegedly been chosen by his uncle Justinian I as his successor on his deathbed.
655 – Penda of Mercia and Æthelhere of East Anglia were defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in Yorkshire, England.
1864 – American Civil War: Union army general William Tecumseh Sherman began his March to the Sea, inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure using scorched-earth tactics on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
1908 – As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory, the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo.
1922 – Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1935 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines was officially established, with Manuel L. Quezon inaugurated as its president.
1943 – The Holocaust: In the Romani Holocaust, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler ordered that the Romani were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1988 – The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of the industrialist patriarch of Fiat Gianni Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin.
2012 – Xi Jinping replaced Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding as the paramount leader of China.
Born/died: | Odo II, Count of Blois |d|1037| Herman of Alaska |d|1836| Georgia O'Keeffe |b|1887| Claus von Stauffenberg |b|1907| Émile Durkheim |d|1917| Gus Poyet |b|1967| John Le Mesurier |d|1983| E. S. Raja Gopal |d|2018|

November 15

Deodoro da Fonseca

1760 – The chapel of the newly constructed Castellania in Valletta, Malta, was consecrated.
1859 – Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.
1889 – Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca (pictured), while the country was proclaimed a republic.
1922 – During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.
1959 – Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas; the events became the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a pioneering work of the true crime genre.

Madeleine de Scudéry (b. 1607)
Sara Josephine Baker (b. 1873)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (d. 1959)
Margaret Mead (d. 1978)

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