Today in History: October 15
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Today in History
October 15
| 1529 |
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Ottoman armies under Suleiman end their siege of Vienna and head back to Belgrade. |
| 1582 |
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The Gregorian (or New World) calendar is adopted in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal; and the preceding ten days are lost to history. |
| 1783 |
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Francois Pilatre de Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon. The first flight was let out to 82 feet, but over the next few days the altitude increased up to 6,500 feet. |
| 1813 |
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During the land defeat of the British on the Thames River in Canada, the Indian chief Tecumseh, now a brigadier general with the British Army (War of 1812), is killed. |
| 1863 |
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For the second time, the Confederate submarine H L Hunley sinks during a practice dive in Charleston Harbor, this time drowning its inventor along with seven crew members. |
| 1878 |
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Thomas A. Edison founds the Edison Electric Light Co. |
| 1880 |
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Victorio, feared leader of the Minbreno Apache, is killed by Mexican troops in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. |
| 1892 |
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An attempt to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kan., ends in disaster for the Dalton gang as four of the five outlaws are killed and Emmet Dalton is seriously wounded. |
| 1894 |
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, is arrested for betraying military secrets to Germany. |
| 1914 |
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Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which labor leader Samuel Gompers calls "labor's charter of freedom." The act exempts unions from anti-trust laws; strikes, picketing and boycotting become legal; corporate interlocking directorates become illegal, as does setting prices which would effect a monopoly. |
| 1924 |
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German ZR-3 flies 5000 miles, the furthest Zeppelin flight to date. |
| 1941 |
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Odessa, a Russian port on the Black Sea which has been surrounded by German troops for several weeks, is evacuated by Russian troops. |
| 1945 |
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Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval is executed by a firing squad for his wartime collaboration with the Germans. |
| 1950 |
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President Harry Truman meets with General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island to discuss U.N. progress in the Korean War. |
| 1964 |
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Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union. |
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Born on October 15 |
| 70 BC |
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Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman poet. |
| 1830 |
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Helen Hunt Jackson, writer and poet. |
| 1844 |
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Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer. |
| 1881 |
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P.G. Wodehouse, novelist and playwright. |
| 1905 |
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C.P. Snow, novelist. |
| 1908 |
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John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, writer and diplomat. |
| 1910 |
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Torbjorn Oskar Caspersson, Swedish cytologist and geneticist. |
| 1917 |
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. |
| 1920 |
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Mario Puzo, novelist and screenwriter best known for The Godfather. |
| 1923 |
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Italo Calvino, Italian novelist. |
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