What happend on 15th November

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1966

Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

1961

Roger Maris is voted the American League MVP (baseball)

1960

The Polaris missile is test launched.

1959

Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.

1956

The first film starring Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender, opens.

1948

Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.

1943

German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." (see Porajmos)

1942

World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends.

1941

SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.

1940

The Warsaw Ghetto, with a population of 400,000 Jews, is sealed off from the outside world by the Nazis.