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Events

• 1815 (211 years ago) Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
• 1864 (162 years ago) American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
• 1965 (61 years ago) Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
• 1987 (39 years ago) Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
• 1990 (36 years ago) Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
• 1991 (35 years ago) The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
• 1991 (35 years ago) The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

Births

• 70 BC Virgil, Roman poet (died 19 BC)
• 1542 (484 years ago) Akbar, Mughal emperor (died 1605)
• 1608 (418 years ago) Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)
• 1814 (212 years ago) Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)
• 1844 (182 years ago) Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (died 1984)
• 1931 (95 years ago) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (died 2015)
• 1988 (38 years ago) Mesut Özil, German footballer

Deaths

• 55 BC Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (born 98 BC)
• 1564 (462 years ago) Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (born 1514)
• 1917 (109 years ago) Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (born 1876)
• 1934 (92 years ago) Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (born 1860)
• 1946 (80 years ago) Hermann Göring, German general and Nazi politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1893)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1922)
• 2018 (8 years ago) Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)

All 375 events, births and deaths of October 15