Daily Calendar for Saturday, November 15, 2025
Died
- Johannes Kepler (astronomer) –
- Lionel Barrymore (actor) –
- Margaret Mead (author) –
Born
- Sir William Herschel (astronomer) –
- James O'Neill (actor) –
- Franklin Pierce Adams (newspaper columnist) –
- Felix Frankfurter (U.S. Supreme Court justice) –
- Georgia O'Keeffe (painter) –
- Marianne Moore (poet) –
- Joseph Wapner (judge & TV personality) –
- Ed Asner (actor) –
- Petula Clark (singer) –
- Sam Waterston (actor) –
- Kevin Eubanks (musician & The Tonight Show bandleader) –
- Helen Mersi Kelesi (tennis player) –
- Jonny Lee Miller (actor) –
- Zena Grey (actress) –
Events
- Pikes Peak first sighted by Zebulon M. Pike –
- First U.S. poultry show began, Boston, Massachusetts –
- First meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations –
- Sadie Hawkins Day debuted in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip –
- First gas-turbine electric locomotive in the United States was track-tested, Erie, Pennsylvania –
- Elvis Presley’s first movie, Love Me Tender, premiered –
- Walt Disney announced plans to build Epcot Center
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- A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck Japan –
Weather
- Forty-five inches of snow fell on Watertown, New York, in 24 hours –
- Thirty-five tornadoes ripped through the Midwest –
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