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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/655" title="655">655</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penda_of_Mercia" title="Penda of Mercia">Penda of Mercia</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelhere_of_East_Anglia" title="Æthelhere of East Anglia">Æthelhere of East Anglia</a></b> were defeated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswiu" title="Oswiu">Oswiu of Northumbria</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Winwaed" title="Battle of the Winwaed">Battle of the Winwaed</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>, England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1760" title="1760">1760</a> – The chapel of the newly constructed <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellania_(Valletta)" title="Castellania (Valletta)">Castellania</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valletta" title="Valletta">Valletta</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a>, was consecrated.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864" title="1864">1864</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" title="Union Army">Union Army</a> general <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman" title="William Tecumseh Sherman">William Tecumseh Sherman</a></b> began his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea" title="Sherman's March to the Sea">March to the Sea</a>, inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth" title="Scorched earth">scorched-earth tactics</a> on his way from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah, Georgia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a> –, in Chicago's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_(Chicago_park)" title="Washington Park (Chicago park)">Washington Park</a>, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent" title="Treaty of Ghent">Treaty of Ghent</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a></b> replaced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao" title="Hu Jintao">Hu Jintao</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" title="General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party">General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party</a>, succeeding as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_leader" title="Paramount leader">paramount leader</a> of China.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg" title="Claus von Stauffenberg">Claus von Stauffenberg</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1907); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thomson_Rees_Wilson" title="Charles Thomson Rees Wilson">Charles Thomson Rees Wilson</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1959)</p>