Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 15

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  Pope Gregory XIII
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  Draft-card burning in 1967
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  Yang Liwei
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  Demonstrators in Madrid, 2011
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  ThrustSSC
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  Edward Gibbon
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  Pierre Laval
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  Coat of arms of Volgograd Oblast

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Global Handwashing Day	inappropriate tone
Feast day of Saint Teresa of Ávila (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism)	lots of CN tags
White Cane Safety Day in the United States	stub
Teachers' Day in Brazil;	refimprove
; Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in Canada and the United States	poor layout
National Tree Planting Day in Sri Lanka	need to verify date
Simchat Torah (Jewish diaspora, 2025)	Too much uncited
1582 – Spain, Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and most of the Italian states became the first countries to replace the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar.	unreferenced section
1894 – Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French military, was wrongly arrested for treason.	refimprove section
1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (pictured) was executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.	Lots uncited
1945 – Pierre Laval, twice head of government of Vichy France, was executed for high treason.	refimprove
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.	refimprove section
1966 – The Black Panther Party, a Marxist/Maoist African-American organization that promoted Black Power and self-defense in the United States, was founded in Oakland, California.	external links
1970 – Thirty-five construction workers were killed when a section of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed due to structural failure.	refimprove
1982 – Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani was assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran during Friday prayers in Kermanshah.	Referencing issues
1987 – The great storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people.	refimprove section
1997 – The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft mission launched from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.	refimprove section
1997 – In Nevada's Black Rock Desert, Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green set the first supersonic land speed record in the jet-propelled car ThrustSSC.	Referencing issues
2003 – [[Shenzhou 5|Template:Nowrap]], China's first crewed space mission, was launched, carrying astronaut Yang Liwei.	unreferenced section
2005 – Iraqis overwhelmingly ratified the country's proposed constitution.	no footnotes
Sai Baba of Shirdi |d|1918|	Lots uncited
Prannoy Roy |b|1949	DOB not in reference.
Julia Yeomans |b|1954|	Birthday not in article
Konrad Emil Bloch |d|2000|	Deathdate not cited in article

Eligible

• 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later.
• 1967 – The Motherland Calls (depicted in coat of arms), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad, was dedicated, becoming the then-tallest statue in the world.
• 2007 – New Zealand Police conducted several anti-terrorism raids in relation to the discovery of an alleged paramilitary training camp in the Urewera mountain ranges, arresting 17 people and seizing four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition.
• 2011 – Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.

• 1529 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
• 1888 – The "From Hell" letter, allegedly from Jack the Ripper, was sent to George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London.
• 1965 – Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City, David J. Miller burned his draft card (example pictured), the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
• 1979 – President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.
• 2013 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.
• 2018 – Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, and held captive for 88 days.
• Born/died: | Razia Sultana |d|1240| Marie-Marguerite d'Youville |b|1701| Franklin Peale |b|1795| William H. Crook |b|1839| Ernest Peixotto |b|1869| [[P. G. Wodehouse|Template:Nowrap Wodehouse]] |b|1881| Neal Ball |d|1957| Elizabeth Alexander|d|1958| Stepan Bandera |d|1959| Sartono|d|1968| Amrullah Saleh |b|1972| Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji|d|1988| Charlotte Hope |b|1991| Aydın Sayılı |d|1993|

Lambert of Italy |d|898| Louis-Eugène Cavaignac |b|1802| Dolores Jiménez y Muro |d|1925| Manuel Flores |b|1965|

Notes

• Jack the Ripper appears on August 31, so From Hell letter should not appear in the same year

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• 1815 – Napoleon began his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, which would encompass his final six years.
• 1932 – Air India (modern aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
• 1954 – Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.
• 1996 – The Irish Criminal Assets Bureau was established following the gangland murders of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and investigative journalist Veronica Guerin.
• 2006 – An earthquake registering 6.7 M_w occurred off the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaii.