Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 15
October 15: White Cane Safety Day in the United States.
- 1582 – Spain, Portugal, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Italy became the first countries to replace the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar.
- 1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (pictured) was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany.
- 1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people.
- 1989 – Playing for the Los Angeles Kings against his old team, the Edmonton Oilers, Canadian professional ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe's National Hockey League record of 1,850 career points.
- 2003 – Chinese space program: Shenzhou 5, China's first manned space mission was launched, carrying astronaut Yang Liwei.
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