Today in History - History - November 15th

1977Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran

1980Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany

1492Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco

1974Ringo Starr releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK

198375th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy

1967Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP

1964Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro

1577Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington

1835Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle

1948Mackenzie King retires after spending 22 years as the Prime Minister of Canada

1874August Krogh [Schack], Denmark, zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries, Nobel-1920), (d. 1949)

1862Gerhart Hauptmann, Obersalzbrunn, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912), (d. 1946)

1708William Pitt the Elder, London, British Prime Minister (Whig, 1756-61, 66-68), `Great Commoner', (d. 1778)

1891Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-African campaign)

1997"Rescue 911" TV host and actor William Shatner (66) weds former Ford model Norine Kidd (37) in Pasadena, California

1986Golfer Byron Nelson (74) weds advertising copy writer Peggy Simmons (42)

1630Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58

1794John Witherspoon, president of the College of New Jersey, dies at 71

1978Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), dies of pancreatic cancer at 76

565Justinian I (The Great), Byzantinian Emperor (527-565), dies at 82. Corpus Juris Civilis, civil law code, written during reign.