* Astronomy

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November 15th

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The first Green Bank telescope collapsed on 15 November 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope

The first public mention of the Intel 4004 CPU was on November 15, 1971
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004

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Transit 4B was a US Navy navigation satellite launched on the 15th November, 1961.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t51563432/transit-4b-satellite/

A test flight of the North American X-15 experimental aircraft took place on November 15, 1967
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-15_Flight_191

The Small Astronomy Satellite 2 was launched on 15 November 1972
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Astronomy_Satellite_2

INTASAT, Spain's 1st satellite, was launched with NOAA 4 on 15 November 1974.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1974-089C

The only orbital launch of the (unmanned) Buran shuttle 1.01 was on 15 November 1988
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3178377/buran-revival/

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-38 was launched on 15 November 1990
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46186793/sts-38/

ESA SMART-1 satellite entered orbit around the Moon on 15 November 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART-1#Flight

STS-126 was launched on 15 November 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-126

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People

Timothy Creamer (November 15, 1959) is a NASA astronaut and a Colonel in the US Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Creamer

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 - 14 October 1944) was a German Field Marshal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel

Mary Emma Byrd (November 15, 1849 - July 13, 1934) was an American educator and is considered a pioneer astronomy teacher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E._Byrd

Ngô Bo Châu (born June 28, 1972) is a Vietnamese and French mathematician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4_B%E1%BA%A3o_Ch%C3%A2u

Louis Bertrand Castel (15 November 1688 - 9 January 1757) was a French mathematician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bertrand_Castel

Emil Racovitza (15 November 1868 - 17 November 1947) was a Romanian biologist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Racovita

Dutchman Dirk Klinkenberg (15 November 1709, Haarlem - 3 March 1799, The Hague) was a mathematician and amateur astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Klinkenberg

Sir Frederick William Herschel (15 November 1738 - 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t21803494/william-herschel/

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NGC 7403 is a magnitude +14.0 star discovered by Philip Sidney Coolidge on the 15th November 1859.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t55577281/ngc-7403/

Small Nebulous Ring About Nova Persei, 1917. Nov. 15. Photographed with 60-inch reflector.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40710104

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Asteroid 21 Lutetia was discovered on 15 November 1852
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Lutetia

Comet 29P/SchwassmannWachmann was discovered on November 15, 1927
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29P/Schwassmann%E2%80%93Wachmann

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Meteorites