15th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON NOVEMBER 15

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
• 1660 - First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)
• 1720 - Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial
• 1827 - Creek-indians lose all their property in US
• 1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
• 1884 - Colonization of Africa orgainized at international conference in Berlin
• 1899 - Winston Churchill,  Morning Post reporter  captured by Boers in Natal
• 1914 - Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo d'Italia
• 1919 - US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
• 1920 - League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva
• 1932 - Walt Disney Art School created
• 1936 - Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
• 1947 - Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG
• 1948 - Mackenzie King retires after spending 22 years as the Prime Minister of Canada
• 1961 - UN bans nuclear arms
• 1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
• 1974 - International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis
• 1988 - Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
• 1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• 1989 - Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
• 1990 - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
• 1992 - Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
• 1999 - Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
• 2000 - New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India
• 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
• 2014 - World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth