| 129961 | November 15 | Event | 1705 – Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians). |
| 129962 | November 15 | Event | 1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. |
| 129963 | November 15 | Event | 1791 – The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors. |
| 129964 | November 15 | Event | 1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.) |
| 129965 | November 15 | Event | 1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece. |
| 129966 | November 15 | Event | 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea. |
| 129967 | November 15 | Event | 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup. |
| 129968 | November 15 | Event | 1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League. |
| 129969 | November 15 | Event | 1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| 129970 | November 15 | Event | 1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established. |
| 129971 | November 15 | Event | 1922 – Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador. |
| 129972 | November 15 | Event | 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations. |
| 129973 | November 15 | Event | 1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew. |
| 129974 | November 15 | Event | 1935 – Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines. |
| 129975 | November 15 | Event | 1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. |
| 129976 | November 15 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory. |
| 129977 | November 15 | Event | 1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (See Porajmos.) |
| 129978 | November 15 | Event | 1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations. |
| 129979 | November 15 | Event | 1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi. |
| 129980 | November 15 | Event | 1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial. |
| 129981 | November 15 | Event | 1955 – The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened. |
| 129982 | November 15 | Event | 1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. |
| 129983 | November 15 | Event | 1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 129984 | November 15 | Event | 1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board. |
| 129985 | November 15 | Event | 1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. |
| 129986 | November 15 | Event | 1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. |
| 129987 | November 15 | Event | 1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death". |
| 129988 | November 15 | Event | 1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. |
| 129989 | November 15 | Event | 1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence. |
| 129990 | November 15 | Event | 1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183. |