October 15: Global Handwashing Day
Air India Boeing 747
- 1529 – The Siege of Vienna ended as the Austrians repelled the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1894 – Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French military, was wrongly arrested for treason.
- 1932 – Air India (aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
- 1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completed the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.
- 2006 – An offshore earthquake measuring 6.7 Mw occurred 10 km (6 miles) southwest of the Island of Hawaii.
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