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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 15 November.

1. Johannes Kepler dies
2. Continental Congress approves Articles of Conf
3. Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
4. Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated
5. American Federation of Labor founded in Pitts (AFL)
6. Dom Pedro II Emperor of Brazil deposed; republic proclaimed
7. League of Nations holds 1st meeting in Geneva
8. NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
9. Walt Disney Art School created
10. 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
11. Social Security Adm approves 1st unemployment check
12. 1st 75 000 men were called to armed forces duty during peacetime
13. Cow Palace opens in SF
14. William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada
15. KRON (Channel 4 SF) signs on from 7 to 10 PM
16. 1st Negro player in organized hockey - Arthur Dorrington signed
17. Flight over North Pole on regularly scheduled commercial route began
18. Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at 44
19. Mickey Wright shoots a 62 lowest golf score for a woman pro
20. Gemini XII returns to Earth
21. Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
22. 250 000 protesters peacefully demonstrate against Vietnam War
23. Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
24. Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
25. Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
26. 75th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
27. Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart dies at Calif medical center

These famous people were born on 15 November.

1. 1738 - Sir William Herschel, astronomer discovered Uranus
2. 1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (Before Dawn) (Nobel 1912)
3. 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, in Sun Prairie, Wis, painter
4. 1887 - Marianne Moore, poet in St. Louis
5. 1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshall
6. 1891 - W. Averell Harriman, governor, cabinet member
7. 1919 - Joseph Albert Wapner, La (People's Court)
8. 1919 - Carol Bruce, in Great Neck
9. 1925 - Howard Baker, senator from Tennessee, presidential chief of staff
10. 1929 - Ed Asner, Actor (Lou Grant)
11. 1932 - Petula Clark, in England
12. 1934 - Joanna Barnes, Actress
13. 1940 - Sam Waterston, Actor
14. 1945 - Anni-Frid, in Lyngsdtad Sweden (ABBA)
15. 1946 - Janet Lennon, (Lennon Sisters)