15 November

This Year

• 2025: Our paper "Coexistence of weak and strong light-matter coupling of a quantum dot in a photonic molecule" is finally accepted (actually the day before, but its first-author got the notice on his birthday).

In History

• 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
• 1533 – The next year from previous line, Pizarro enters in Cuzco.
• 1899 – Churchill is captured at the battle of Chieveley in the second Boer War.
• 1917 – Finland declares its independence from Russia.
• 1955 – The Metro opens in Saint-Petersbourg.
• 1971 – Intel releases the first commercial single-chip microprocessor (the 4004).
• 1983 – The Turkish north part of Cyprus declares its independence from the south Greek one.

Birthdays

• 1738: William Herschel is born.
• 1891: Erwin Rommel.
• 1907: Claus von Stauffenberg.
• 1984: Stefan Lichtmannecker.