November 15: Republic Day in Brazil (1889); Shichi-Go-San in Japan
Main façade of the Castellania Palace
- 655 – Penda of Mercia was defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in modern-day Yorkshire, England.
- 1760 – The chapel of the new Castellania Palace (pictured) in Valletta, Malta, was consecrated.
- 1889 – Brazilian Emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca, and Brazil was proclaimed a republic.
- 1959 – Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas, U.S.; the events became the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a pioneering work of the true crime genre.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: American forces launched Operation Commando Hunt, a large-scale bombing campaign to prevent the People's Army of (North) Vietnam from transporting personnel and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Madeleine de Scudéry (b. 1607) · Émile Durkheim (d. 1917) · María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar (d. 2012)
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