Year 1621
Jahangir captured Kakda Fort.
NOVEMBER 15
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15 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 15 November.
Year 1817
Battle of Yerwada.
Year 1830
Ram Mohun Roy sailed for England. He was the first Indian Brahmin (then 'Brahmo') to go to England.
Year 1875
Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar.
Year 1911
First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
Year 1913
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems "Gitanjali" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Noble Prize.
Year 1920
Assembly meeting of the League of Nations.
Year 1921
16 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels.
Year 1932
Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi.
Year 1937
Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) "Kamayanee" and plays "Chandra Gupt" and "Skand Gupt".
Year 1945
Venezuela entered the United Nations.
Year 1949
Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were hanged for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Year 1971
Intel released the world’s first commercial microprocessor chip, the 4004.
Year 1988
Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet.
Year 1989
Sachin Tendulkar made his international debut.
Year 1991
Import curbs on capital goods relaxed.
Year 1993
Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme.
Year 1995
Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations.
Year 1996
United Nations announced Sasakawa Environmental Award to Indian scientist Dr. Trilokinath Khushu.
Year 1997
INS Delhi' commissioned.
Year 1998
Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.
Year 2000
Jharkhand became the 28th state.
Year 2006
Al Jazeera English launched worldwide.
Year 2007
Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
Year 2012
Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
Year 2016
Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.
Born 1738
William Herschel, German-British astronomer, and composer.
Born 1866
Cornelia Sorabji, the first female advocate in India, and the first woman to practice law in India and Britain.
Born 1875
Birsa Munda, a tribal freedom fighter from Jharkhand, India.
Born 1885
Gijubhai Badheka, a pioneer in the field of modern child education.
Born 1891
Erwin Rommel, a German general, and military theorist.
Born 1908
Carlo Abarth, founder of the Abarth Company.
Born 1915
V. R. Krishna Iyer, a noted judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism in India.
Born 1927
Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, Indian Singer.
Born 1932
Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi.
Born 1936
Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist, and publisher (d. 1998)
Born 1955
M. A. Yusuff Ali, a UAE-based Indian billionaire businessman.
Born 1986
Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
Died 1630
Johann Kepler, German mathematician, and astronomer.
Died 1706
Buddhist 6th Dalai Lama
Died 1937
Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) "Kamayanee" and plays "Chandra Gupt" and "Skand Gupt".
Died 1949
Nathuram Godse and Narayan Dattatraya Apte, main accused in the assassination plot of Mahatma Gandhi.
Died 1978
Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist.
Died 1982
Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Indian activist, a pioneer of the Bhudan movement, and a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi. He died in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Died 1982
S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.
Died 1998
Stokely Carmichael, African-American political activist.
Died 2012
K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1931)
Died 2015
Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
Died 2020
Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian film actor, director, playwright, writer and poet.