| 129991 | November 15 | Event | 1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. |
| 129992 | November 15 | Event | 1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey. |
| 129993 | November 15 | Event | 1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes. |
| 129994 | November 15 | Event | 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. |
| 129995 | November 15 | Event | 1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash. |
| 129996 | November 15 | Event | 1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu. |
| 129997 | November 15 | Event | 1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight. |
| 129998 | November 15 | Event | 1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council. |
| 129999 | November 15 | Event | 1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands. |
| 130000 | November 15 | Event | 1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38. |
| 130001 | November 15 | Event | 1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted. |
| 130002 | November 15 | Event | 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people. |
| 130003 | November 15 | Event | 2000 – Jharkhand state comes into existence in India. |
| 130004 | November 15 | Event | 2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. |
| 130005 | November 15 | Event | 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. Additional bombings follow on November 20. |
| 130006 | November 15 | Event | 2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide. |
| 130007 | November 15 | Event | 2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans. |
| 130008 | November 15 | Event | 2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. |
| 130009 | November 15 | Event | 2012 – Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in the Midland train crash after a Union Pacific train struck a parade float in Midland, Texas. |
| 130010 | November 15 | Birth | 459 – B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (d. 501) |
| 130011 | November 15 | Birth | 1316 – John I of France (d. 1316) |
| 130012 | November 15 | Birth | 1397 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455) |
| 130013 | November 15 | Birth | 1498 – Eleanor of Austria (d. 1558) |
| 130014 | November 15 | Birth | 1511 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (d. 1536) |
| 130015 | November 15 | Birth | 1556 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618) |
| 130016 | November 15 | Birth | 1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (d. 1701) |
| 130017 | November 15 | Birth | 1660 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (d. 1746) |
| 130018 | November 15 | Birth | 1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (d. 1743) |
| 130019 | November 15 | Birth | 1688 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1757) |
| 130020 | November 15 | Birth | 1692 – Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (d. 1775) |