1922 - British General Election: Conservative party wins a majority under Andrew Bonar Law
1935 - Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
1949 - Dmitri Shostakovich' oratorio "Song of the Forests" premieres in Leningrad, USSR
1978 - Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal" premieres in London
1988 - Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1899 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian cavalryman (Czarist Cavalry, WWI; Estonian Army, 1918-40; Wehrmacht Cavalry, 1940-45), veterinarian, and Estonian Minister of War-In-Exile (1973-90), born in Viluvere, Livonia, Russian Empire (d. 1990)
1919 - Joseph Wapner, American judge (People's Court), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2017)
1930 - Whitman Mayo, American actor (Grady Wilson-"Sanford and Son"), born in New York City (d. 2001)
1931 - Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan politician, President of Kenya (2002-13), born in Gatuyaini, Kenya (d. 2022)
1985 - Lily Aldridge, American model (Victoria's Secret), born in Santa Monica, California
1028 - Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
1629 - Bethlen Gabor, King of Hungary (1620-29), dies at 49
1819 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (isolation of nitrogen in 1772), dies at 70
1971 - Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
2018 - Zhores Medvedev, Soviet biologist, writer and activist (The Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko; Nuclear Disaster in the Urals), dies of a heart attack at 93
On November 15, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman and his army begin a six-week expedition of destruction across Georgia. They destroyed most of the state during the March to the Sea.