15 October

The 15t o October is the 288t day o the year (289t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 77 days bidin.

Events

1997: Cassini-Huygens launch

• 1582 - The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Spain, Portugal, Italy an Poland.
• 1815 - Napoleon I stairts his time in exile on the Sooth Atlantic island o St. Helena.
• 1880 - Cologne Cathedral is completit efter ower 600 year.
• 1894 - French military office Alfred Dreyfus is arrested, stairting the Dreyfus Affair.
• 1945 - Vichy Fraunce politeecian Pierre Laval is executit.
• 1946 - Hermann Göring, Nazi politeecian, commits suicide.
• 1987 - Blaise Compaoré takes ower in Burkina Faso.
• 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1993 - Nelson Mandela an Frederik Willem de Klerk win the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1997 - The Cassini-Huygens space probe is launched tae the planet Saturn.
• 2001 - The Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 mile o Jupiter's muin Io.
• 2012 - In the Edinburgh Agreement, David Cameron an Alex Salmond agree the terms for a referendum on Scots unthirldom.

Births

Friedrich Nietzsche

• 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
• 1542 - Akbar the Great, Mughal Emperor (d. 1605)
• 1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian pheesicist an mathemateecian (d. 1647)
• 1795 - Frederick William IV o Proushie (d. 1861)
• 1814 - Mikhail Lermontov, Roushie writer, poet an penter (d. 1841)
• 1829 - Asaph Hall, American astronomer (d. 1907)
• 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
• 1893 - Carol II o Romanie (d. 1953)
• 1894 - Moshe Sharett, 2nt Prime meenister o Israel (d. 1965)
• 1914 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King o Afghanistan (d. 2007)
• 1920 - Mario Puzo, American writer (d. 1999)
• 1923 - Italo Calvino, Italian jurnalist an writer (d. 1985)
• 1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
• 1931 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, 11t Preses o Indie (d. 2015)
• 1944 - Sali Berisha, Albanian politeecian
• 1944 - David Trimble, Northren Erse politeecian
• 1946 - Stewart Stevenson, Scots politeecian
• 1959 - Sarah, Duchess o York
• 1968 - Didier Deschamps, French fitbawer
• 1971 - Andy Cole, Inglis fitbawer
• 1974 - Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
• 1977 - David Trezeguet, French fitbawer
• 1981 - Elena Dementieva, Roushie tennis player
• 1988 - Mesut Oezil, German fitbawer

Daiths

• 1389 - Pape Urban VI (b. 1318)
• 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer an spy (b. 1876)
• 1934 - Raymond Poincaré, French politeecian (b. 1860)
• 1945 - Pierre Laval, French politeecian (b. 1883)
• 1946 - Hermann Göring, German Nazi politeecian (b. 1893)
• 1956 - Jules Rimet, 3rd Preses o FIFA (b. 1873)
• 1964 - Cole Porter, American componer (b. 1891)
• 2012 - Norodom Sihanouk, King o Cambodie (b. 1922)

Halidays

• Global Handwashing Day
• Teacher's Day (Brazil)