Talk:October 15

--mav 00:30, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Selected anniversaries for the "On this day" section of the Main Page

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October 15: Teachers' Day in Brazil; Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in Canada and the United States. 1582 – Spain, Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and most of the Italian states became the first countries to replace the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar. 1764 – English historian Edward Gibbon (pictured) observed friars singing Vespers at Capitoline Hill in Rome, inspiring him to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1932 – Air India, the flag carrier airline of India, began operations as Tata Airlines. 1945 – Pierre Laval, twice head of government of Vichy France, was executed for high treason. 1965 – Vietnam War protests: The Catholic Worker Movement staged an anti-war rally in Manhattan, including the burning of draft cards, the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act. More anniversaries: October 14 – October 15 – October 16 It is now May 24, 2013 (UTC) – Reload this page

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• 1928 - Graf Zeppelin lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Outside of "this day in history"-type webpages (VERY bad source), I could only find one website that gives this info. Her maiden voyage was sometime in the teens of October, but I can't pin down the exact days to any reasonable degree of certainty. --mav 03:51, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I removed "October 15th is the last day to file an Individual Income Tax Return with the Internal Revenue Service with a granted additional extension." as it doesn't belong in the intro, and I don't know what country it applies to. DJ Clayworth 18:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

hunley

I question the claim H. L. Hunley was "first successful submarine", when she sank on two trials and her only operational mission, as well as the fact she was preceded by David Bushnell's Turtle in 1776.

2500-year celebratio nof Iran begins in 1971

Anyone have any idea what this is?216.57.30.2 15:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Fortran

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• 1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.

have a wired article for a reference - http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/10/1015fortran-launch —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mxtbcca (talk • contribs) 22:07, 15 October 2009 (UTC)