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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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Global Handwashing Day | inappropriate tone |
| Feast day of Saint Teresa of Ávila (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism) | lots of CN tags |
| 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 | poor layout |
| National Tree Planting Day in Sri Lanka | need to verify date |
| 1582 – Spain, Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and most of the Italian states became the first countries to replace the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar. | unreferenced section |
| 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 firing squad for spying for Germany. | Lots uncited |
| 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. | external links |
| 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 during Friday prayers in Kermanshah. | Referencing issues |
| 1987 – The great storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people. | refimprove section |
| 1997 – The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft mission launched from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. | refimprove section |
| 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. | Referencing issues |
| 2003 – Shenzhou 5, China's first crewed space mission, was launched, carrying astronaut Yang Liwei. | unreferenced section |
| 2005 – Iraqis overwhelmingly ratified the country's proposed constitution. | no footnotes |
| Prannoy Roy |b|1949 | DOB not in reference. |
| Sai Baba of Shirdi |d|1918| | Lots uncited |
Eligible
- 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later.
- 1932 – Air India, the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
- 1954 – Hurricane Hazel (flooding pictured) made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.
- 1967 – The Motherland Calls, a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad, was dedicated, becoming the then-tallest statue in the world.
- 1996 The Criminal Assets Bureau was established following the gangland murders of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and investigative journalist Veronica Guerin.
- 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 earthquake registering 6.7 Mw occurred off the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaii.
- 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.
- 2011 – Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.
- 2013 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.
- 2018 – Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, and held captive for 88 days.
- Born/died: | Lambert of Italy |d|898| Louis-Eugène Cavaignac |b|1802| Tadeusz Kościuszko |d|1817| William H. Crook |b|1839| Ernest Peixotto |b|1869| P. G. Wodehouse |b|1881| Hiram Fong |b|1906| Dolores Jiménez y Muro |d|1925| Neal Ball |d|1957| Stepan Bandera |d|1959|Julia Yeomans |b|1954| Sartono|d|1968| Elizabeth Alexander Aydın Sayılı |d|1993| Konrad Emil Bloch |d|2000|
Notes
- Jack the Ripper appears on August 31, so From Hell letter should not appear in the same year
Draft-card burning in 1967
- 1529 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1888 – The "From Hell" letter, allegedly from Jack the Ripper, was sent to George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London.
- 1965 – Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City, David J. Miller burned his draft card (example pictured), the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
- 1979 – President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.
- Razia Sultana (d. 1240)
- Marie-Marguerite d'Youville (b. 1701)
- Franklin Peale (b. 1795)
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (d. 1988)
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