11-15-2004, 07:02 AM
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November 15th
1630 ~ Death of Johannes Kepler, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.
1787 ~ Death of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer.
1854 ~ In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, was given the needed royal concession by the Said.
1887 ~ Birthday of Georgia O'Keeffe, Painter.
1891 ~ Birthday of Erwin Rommel, German field marshal.
1942 ~ Birthday of Daniel Barenboim, Pianist & Conductor.
1943 ~ German SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."
1969 ~ Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.
1971 ~ Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1998 ~ Iraqi climbdown averted air strikes: American and British bombers were on their way to Baghdad when they were called off after Iraq's letter was delivered to the United Nations Security Council. "Now Iraq must live up to its obligations," President Bill Clinton Clinton said.
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