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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_15" title="November 15">November 15</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1859" title="1859">1859</a> – Sponsored by Greek businessman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelos_Zappas" title="Evangelos Zappas">Evangelos Zappas</a>, the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappas_Olympics" title="Zappas Olympics">first modern revival</a></b> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic Games</a> took place in Athens.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908" title="1908">1908</a> – As a result of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State" title="Atrocities in the Congo Free State">numerous atrocities in the territory</a></b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State" title="Congo Free State">Congo Free State</a> was annexed to Belgium to form the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Congo" title="Belgian Congo">Belgian Congo</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a> – During <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_Guayaquil_general_strike" title="1922 Guayaquil general strike">a general strike</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayaquil" title="Guayaquil">Guayaquil</a>, Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a>: In the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_Holocaust" title="Romani Holocaust">Romani Holocaust</a></b>, Nazi official <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a> ordered that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people" title="Romani people">Romani</a> were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" title="Nazi concentration camps">concentration camps</a>".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – The Soviet spacecraft <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)" title="Buran (spacecraft)">Buran</a></b></i>, a reusable vehicle built in response to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program" title="Space Shuttle program">Space Shuttle program</a>, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Josephine_Baker" title="Sara Josephine Baker">Sara Josephine Baker</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1873); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead" title="Margaret Mead">Margaret Mead</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1978); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Le_Mesurier" title="John Le Mesurier">John Le Mesurier</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1983); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._S._Raja_Gopal" title="E. S. Raja Gopal">E. S. Raja Gopal</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2018)</p>
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