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Events on November 15

• 1315 Duke Leopold I of Habsburg is defeated in the Battle of Morgarten by the Schwyz and the other forest cantons.
• 1884 The Berlin Conference, which concludes with the partition of Africa into colonial territories, begins at the invitation of Otto von Bismarck.
• 1892 The exhibition of paintings by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch in the Berlin “Architektenhaus” is closed after only one week, following a major scandal caused by the paintings on display.
• 1923 The introduction of the Rentenmark in Germany ends inflation.
• 1940 On the night of November 16, German occupation troops begin to seal off the Warsaw Ghetto completely from the outside world. Jews are no longer allowed to leave the ghetto.
• 1959 The SPD adopts the Godesberg Program at a party congress, in which a social market economy and the free development of the individual are called for.
• 1961 Der Herr Karl, a merciless portrayal of opportunistic petit-bourgeois sensibilities by Carl Merz and Helmut Qualtinger, is shown on television for the first time.
• 1971 With the 4004, Intel brings the first mass-produced single-chip microprocessor available on the open market to market.
• 1980 Pope John Paul II visits the Federal Republic of Germany. The last Roman Catholic head of the Church to be in Germany before him had been there 198 years earlier.
• 1988 The reusable Soviet space shuttle Buran 1.01 launches for the first and so far only time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and completes its mission as planned after two orbits of the Earth.
• 1996 The first downloadable version of the instant messaging service ICQ is released worldwide.
• 2005 At midnight, the closing-time restriction in British pubs takes effect, provided they have applied for a special licence.

Born on November 15

• 1862 Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist and writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1872 Hans Dominik, German writer, science-fiction author, journalist and engineer
• 1891 Erwin Rommel, German field marshal and commander of the Afrika Korps
• 1932 Petula Clark, British actress and pop singer
• 1940 Sam Waterston, American actor
• 1942 Daniel Barenboim, Israeli pianist and conductor
• 1960 Susanne Lothar, German actress
• 1970 Uschi Disl, German biathlete
• 1991 Shailene Woodley, American actress
• 1992 Aminata Touré, German politician

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „15. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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