November 15

People born on this day are Scorpio.

On this day in history01

2000
A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
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2001
Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America.
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2002
Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
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2003
The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.
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2006
Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
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2007
Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
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2010
A fire in a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China kills 58 people.
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2012
Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
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2016
Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.
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2017
A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.
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2020
Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.
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2022
The world population reached eight billion.
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