Shimla, Nov. 15 Keekli Bureau
2011
Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski recorded his 903rd career win, surpassing Bob Knight to become the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men’s history.
2001
Microsoft released Xbox, a video game console system.
1978
American anthropologist Margaret Mead, whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work, died at age 76.
1959
The Clutter family was discovered murdered on their Kansas farm, and their deaths—as well as the capture, conviction, and execution of two drifters—inspired Truman Capote’s classic nonfiction novel In Cold Blood.
1938
A farewell parade was held in Barcelona, Spain, for the volunteers of the International Brigades who had fought for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
1891
- Averell Harriman, a statesman and leading U.S. diplomat in relations with the Soviet Union during World War II and the Cold War, was born.
1891
German field marshal Erwin Rommel, who led the Afrika Korps to spectacular victories during World War II, was born.
1889
Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was forced to abdicate by a group of military officers led by Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca.
1885
St. Joseph Mukasa, one of the Martyrs of Uganda, was beheaded by order of Mwanga, kabaka (ruler) of Buganda.
1884
The Berlin West Africa Conference opened, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin of Central Africa.
1864
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman began his March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, laying waste to the economic resources of the state as he sought to crush white Southern civilians’ support of the Confederate cause; his campaign helped end the American Civil War.
1848
Pellegrino Rossi, a former member of the Carboneria, was assassinated in Rome during the Revolutions of 1848.
1818
The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the first of four congresses held by Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and France following the Napoleonic Wars, concluded.
1630
Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion, died in Regensburg, Germany.
1315
The Swiss Confederation achieved its first great military success against the Austrian Habsburgs at the Battle of Morgarten.
