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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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| 565 | Justin II becomes Byzantine Emperor |
| 1380 | King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12 |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi |
| 1863 | Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee |
| 1906 | TR is the 1st president to visit a foreign country, Panama |
| 1910 | 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va |
| 1919 | Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia |
| 1935 | Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship |
| 1935 | The Philippine Commonwealth is established |
| 1940 | Luftwaffe "coventryizes" Coventry |
| 1942 | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: US secures command of the seas |
| 1942 | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Navy & Marine a/c sink Japanese ships |
| 1942 | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: BB Washington defeats Japanese squadron |
| 1942 | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Japanese reinforcements land. |
| 1944 | Chinese New 22nd Div takes Mantha, in northern Burma |
| 1956 | Hungarian Revolution finally crushed by overwhelming Soviet forces |
| 1968 | "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" |
| 1975 | Spain abandons Spanish Sahara |
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| 1533 | Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco |
| 1763 | Surveying of the Mason-Dixon Line is completed |
| 1864 | Sherman burns what Confederates have left of Atlanta |
| 1884 | Congress of Berlin carves up Africa among European powers |
| 1889 | Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed, and a republic proclaimed |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: Winston Churchill is captured by the Boers |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: Leading elements of Army Corps arrive in Natal |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: Botha destroys armoured train near Chieveley |
| 1914 | Benito Mussolini founds "Il popolo d'Italia", a pro-war newspaper |
| 1920 | League of Nations establishes the Free City of Danzig |
| 1938 | Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona |
| 1940 | First 75,000 drafted men report for duty with Uncle Sam |
| 1942 | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Japanese scuttle BB Kirishima |
| 1943 | U.S. bombers based in China attack harbor installations in Hong Kong. |
| 1957 | US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years |
| 1967 | Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km |
| 1969 | 250,000 demonstrate against the Vietnam War in Washington |
| 1983 | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed |
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| 1532 | Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca |
| 1621 | Catholics adopt Jan 1 as New Year's, Protestants don't, confusing chronology |
| 1632 | Battle of Lutzen: Gustavus Adolfus's Swedes defeat Wallenstein's Imperials |
| 1776 | Hessians capture Ft Washington, Manhattan |
| 1776 | Dutch salute US Grand Union flag, in USS Andrew Doria, St. Eustatius |
| 1778 | John Paul Jones writes, "I wish to go in harm's way." |
| 1856 | USN helps RN reduce the Barrier Forts at Canton, China (to Nov 20) |
| 1863 | Battle of Campbell's Station, TN |
| 1894 | 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan |
| 1914 | Pope Benedict XV calls for peace in WW I, is lambasted by all sides |
| 1918 | Hungary secedes from the Hapsburg Empire |
| 1933 | US and USSR establish diplomatic relations |
| 1939 | German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland |
| 1943 | U.S. sub Corvina sunk by Japanese submarine I-179 near Truk. |
| 1947 | Brussels: 1,500 protest mild sentences given Nazi war criminals |
| 1950 | Egyptian King Faruk demands departure of all British troops |
| 1982 | Maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Columbia |
| 1989 | 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops |
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