Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 15
This is a list of selected October 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Edward Gibbon -
Pierre Laval
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Global Handwashing Day | inappropriate tone |
| White Cane Safety Day in the United States | stub |
| Teachers' Day in Brazil; | refimprove |
| ; Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in Canada and the United States | inappropriate tone |
| National Tree Planting Day in Sri Lanka | need to verify date (not sure if Sept, Oct, or Nov 15) Differing sources show it as Oct 15 in 2010, Nov 15 in 2011, and Sept 15 in 2012, so its exact date each year may be variable. |
| 1764 – English historian Edward Gibbon observed friars singing Vespers at Capitoline Hill in Rome, inspiring him to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. | date appears to have been arbitrarily chosen by Gibbon |
| 1894 – Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French military, was wrongly arrested for treason. | refimprove section |
| 1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (pictured) was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany. | lots of CN tags |
| 1945 – Pierre Laval, twice head of government of Vichy France, was executed for high treason. | refimprove |
| 1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completed the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives. | refimprove section |
| 1966 – The Black Panther Party, a Marxist/Maoist African-American organization that promoted Black Power and self-defense in the United States, was founded in Oakland, California. | not all viewpoints represented |
| 1970 – Thirty-five construction workers were killed when a section of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed due to structural failure. | refimprove |
| 1982 – Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani was assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran while praying Friday prayer. | needs copy editing |
| 1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people. | unreferenced section |
| 1997 – The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft mission launched from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – Iraqis overwhelmingly ratified the country's proposed constitution. | no footnotes |
| 2007 – New Zealand Police conducted several anti-terrorism raids in relation to the discovery of an alleged paramilitary training camp in the Urewera mountain ranges, arresting 17 people and seizing four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition. | cleanup required |
| P. G. Wodehouse (b. 1881) | TFA for 2018 |
Eligible
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Confederates captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later.
- 1954 – Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing a total of 176 people in both countries.
- 1997 – In Nevada's Black Rock Desert, Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green set the first supersonic land speed record in the jet-propelled car ThrustSSC.
- 2003 – Shenzhou 5, China's first manned space mission, was launched, carrying astronaut Yang Liwei.
- 2005 – A march by members of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, in Toledo, Ohio, U.S., sparked a riot among protestors.
- 2006 – An offshore earthquake measuring 6.7 Mw occurred 10 km (6 miles) southwest of the island of Hawaii.
- 2011 – Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.
- Born/died: Marie-Marguerite d'Youville (b. 1701) · Tadeusz Kościuszko (d. 1817) · Elizabeth Alexander (d. 1958)
Notes
- Jack the Ripper appears on August 31, so From Hell letter should not appear in the same year
- 1529 – The Siege of Vienna ended as the Austrians repelled the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1888 – George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received a letter allegedly from Jack the Ripper.
- 1932 – Air India (modern aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
- 1965 – Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City, David J. Miller burned his draft card, the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
- 2013 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.
Al-Mu'tamid (d. 892) · Dolores Jiménez y Muro (d. 1925) · Julia Yeomans (b. 1954)