November 15 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2016 — Hong Kong High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.[1] ↗
• 2012 — Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. ↗
• 2007 — Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans. ↗
• 2006 — Al Jazeera English launches worldwide. ↗
• 2003 — The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1995 — Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
• 1994 — Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 — Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
• 1993 — Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer
• 1992 — Sofia Goggia, Italian skier