15 Aban 1401

Events

• 963 (1063 years ago) Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of an armed rebellion against Otto.
• 1860 (166 years ago) Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race.
• 1900 (126 years ago) President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York.
• 1936 (90 years ago) Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.
• 1976 (50 years ago) Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.
• 1985 (41 years ago) Colombian conflict: leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
• 2016 (10 years ago) Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launch an offensive to capture the ISIL-held city of Raqqa.

Births

• 1494 (532 years ago) Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1566)
• 1661 (365 years ago) Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire (died 1700)
• 1932 (94 years ago) François Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)
• 1946 (80 years ago) Sally Field, American actress
• 1987 (39 years ago) Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
• 1988 (38 years ago) Emma Stone, American actress
• 1988 (38 years ago) Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer
• 1990 (36 years ago) André Schürrle, German footballer

Deaths

• 1003 (1023 years ago) Pope John XVII,
• 1406 (620 years ago) Pope Innocent VII,
• 1672 (354 years ago) Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (born 1585)
• 1893 (133 years ago) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (born 1840)
• 1991 (35 years ago) Gene Tierney, American actress (born 1920)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Clive Dunn, English actor (born 1920)
• 2015 (11 years ago) Yitzhak Navon, Israeli author, playwright, and politician, 5th President of Israel (born 1921)
• 2025 (a year ago) James Watson, American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928)

All 187 events, births and deaths of November 6