WHAT HAPPENED ON 15. NOVEMBER
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World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219. (15. November 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory. (15. November 1942)

The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (See Porajmos.) (15. November 1943)

Venezuela joins the United Nations. (15. November 1945)

Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi. (15. November 1949)

Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial. (15. November 1951)

The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. (15. November 1959)

Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. (15. November 1966)

A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board. (15. November 1966)

The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. (15. November 1967)

Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. (15. November 1969)

Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death". (15. November 1969)

Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. (15. November 1971)

René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence. (15. November 1976)

A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183. (15. November 1978)

A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. (15. November 1979)

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey. (15. November 1983)

A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes. (15. November 1985)

The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. (15. November 1985)

Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash. (15. November 1987)