WHAT HAPPENED ON 15. OCTOBER
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The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated. (15. October 1939)

The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed. (15. October 1940)

The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary. (15. October 1944)

World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason. (15. October 1945)

Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives. (15. October 1951)

The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). (15. October 1951)

British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. (15. October 1953)

Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far north as North Carolina. (15. October 1954)

Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. (15. October 1956)

Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act. (15. October 1965)

Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. (15. October 1966)

Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capital. (15. October 1969)

Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses. (15. October 1970)

The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey. (15. October 1970)

The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia. (15. October 1971)

Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party. (15. October 1979)

The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. (15. October 1987)

Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. (15. October 1989)

Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation. (15. October 1990)

Marco Campos, died in an accident in a International Formula 3000 race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours circuit, making him the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series. (15. October 1995)