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Events on October 15

• 1582 With the introduction of the Gregorian calendar on October 4 of the Julian calendar (Thursday), the next 10 days are omitted. October 15 (Friday) is thus the first day of the new calendar, even though most countries will not adopt this calendar until later.
• 1815 Napoléon Bonaparte sets foot on the island of St. Helena, where he will spend his final years in exile.
• 1842 Karl Marx takes over the editorship of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne.
• 1880 38 years after the Central Association for the Construction of Cologne Cathedral was founded in Cologne, the completion of Cologne Cathedral, begun in 1248, is celebrated.
• 1946 Hermann Göring, who was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, commits suicide using a poison capsule on the night before his planned execution.
• 1949 The Soviet Union becomes the first state to recognize the GDR under international law and establishes diplomatic relations with it.
• 1950 The first election to the People's Chamber of the GDR is held. According to official figures, the National Front's single list, dominated by the SED, receives 99.7 percent of the votes.
• 1962 In the Cuban Missile Crisis, photos taken during spy flights on the previous day provide the USA with proof of Soviet SS-4 medium-range missiles stationed in Cuba.
• 1963 After Konrad Adenauer resigns the previous day, Ludwig Erhard (CDU) is elected the second Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1969 250,000 people protest in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
• 2003 The People's Republic of China launches the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft with “taikonaut” Yang Liwei on board. This makes it the third country with a successful crewed spaceflight.
• 2010 After almost 11 years of construction, the first tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel is broken through.

Born on October 15

• 1881 P. G. Wodehouse, English writer
• 1901 Hermann Josef Abs, German banker
• 1920 Mario Puzo, U.S. crime writer
• 1940 Benno Ohnesorg, German student, victim of a police operation
• 1942 Chris Andrews, British singer and songwriter
• 1970 Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish alpine skier
• 1971 Niko Kovač, Croatian football player and coach
• 1980 Tom Boonen, Belgian road racing cyclist
• 1990 Johannes Lochner, German bobsledder
• 1992 Sarah Engels, German singer

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

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