October 15

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[edit] Events

• 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
• 1815 - Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• 1894 - Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying - Dreyfus affair begins.
• 1918 - Adolf Hitler is temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack in World War I
• 1928 - The airship, the Graf Zeppelin completed its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA.
• 1944 - The Arrow Cross Party takes power in Hungary.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the United States.
• 1970 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt
• 2003 - China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.

[edit] Births

• 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
• 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
• 1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
• 1983 - Daniel Wretström, nationalist martyr and Swedish murder victim (d. 2000)

[edit] Deaths

• 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
• 1946 - Hermann Göring, German air force commander (b. 1893)
• 1996 - Robert F. Williams, radical Black activist (b. 1925)