This Day in History on 15 November
The historical events hold a lot of value for aspirants who are sitting for UPSC competitive exams including the IAS Exam.
On this page, we will list all historical events that occurred on 15 November. The students can refer to them while preparing for all competitive exams and banking exams.
Important Days
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Important Events
1621: Jahangir captured Kakda Fort.
1817: Battle of Yerwada.
1830: Ram Mohun Roy sailed for England. He was the first Indian Brahmin (then ‘Brahmo’) to go to England.
1875: Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar.
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.
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.
1920: Assembly meeting of the League of Nations.
1921: 16 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels.
1932: Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi.
1937: Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) “Kamayanee” and plays “Chandra Gupt” and “Skand Gupt”.
1945: Venezuela entered the United Nations.
1949: Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were hanged for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
1971: Intel released the world’s first commercial microprocessor chip, the 4004.
1988: Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet.
1989: Sachin Tendulkar made his international debut.
1991: Import curbs on capital goods relaxed.
1993: Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme.
1995: Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples’ Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations.
1996: United Nations announced Sasakawa Environmental Award to Indian scientist Dr. Trilokinath Khushu.
1997: INS Delhi’ commissioned.
1998: Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.
2000: Jharkhand became the 28th state.
2006: Al Jazeera English launched worldwide.
2007: Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2012: Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2016: Hong Kong’s High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city’s Parliament.
Birth/Birth Anniversary
1738: William Herschel, German-British astronomer, and composer.
1866: Cornelia Sorabji, the first female advocate in India, and the first woman to practice law in India and Britain.
1875: Birsa Munda, a tribal freedom fighter from Jharkhand, India.
1885: Gijubhai Badheka, a pioneer in the field of modern child education.
1891: Erwin Rommel, a German general, and military theorist.
1908: Carlo Abarth, founder of the Abarth Company.
1915: V. R. Krishna Iyer, a noted judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism in India.
1927: Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, Indian Singer.
1932: Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi.
1936: Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist, and publisher (d. 1998)
1955: M. A. Yusuff Ali, a UAE-based Indian billionaire businessman.
1986: Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
Death/ Death Anniversary
1630: Johann Kepler, German mathematician, and astronomer.
1706: Buddhist 6th Dalai Lama
1937: Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) “Kamayanee” and plays “Chandra Gupt” and “Skand Gupt”.
1949: Nathuram Godse and Narayan Dattatraya Apte, main accused in the assassination plot of Mahatma Gandhi.
1978: Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist.
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.
1982: S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of ‘Yugvani’, died.
1998: Stokely Carmichael, African-American political activist.
2012: K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1931)
2015: Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
2020: Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian film actor, director, playwright, writer and poet.