Timeline November 1915

Events in November 1915 6

• 1856 – 1915 Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) Died 14 November 1915, aged 59 Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, was the most prominent African American educator and political leader of his generation, advocating vocational education and gradual economic advancement. He died at Tuskegee, Alabama, after years of declining health.
• 1915 – 2011 Sargent Shriver (1915-2011) Died 18 January 2011, aged 95 The American statesman founded the Peace Corps under President Kennedy and later led the War on Poverty programs of the Johnson administration. He was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1972. He died in Maryland after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
• 1915 – 2006 Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006) Died 10 December 2006, aged 91 Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator who ruled from 1973 to 1990, died while facing numerous charges for human rights abuses and corruption. His seventeen-year rule was marked by the killing and disappearance of thousands of opponents. He never stood trial for the crimes committed under his regime.
• 1915 – 2001 Chung Ju-yung (1915-2001) Died 21 March 2001, aged 85 Chung founded the Hyundai group, building it from a car-repair shop into one of South Korea's largest conglomerates, spanning construction, shipbuilding and cars. Born to a poor farming family in what is now North Korea, he became a symbol of the country's rapid industrialisation. In 1998 he drove herds of cattle across the border in a gesture of reconciliation.
• 1915 General relativity completed Four lectures in November, and Mercury falls into place Through November 1915 Einstein presented successive versions to the Prussian Academy, racing David Hilbert to the final field equations. On 18 November he found that the theory accounted exactly for the anomaly in Mercury's orbit. He wrote that he was beside himself with excitement for days.
• 1915 Second Ku Klux Klan founded William J. Simmons revives the Klan atop Stone Mountain, Georgia On 25 November 1915 William J. Simmons founded a new Ku Klux Klan at a cross-burning ceremony on Stone Mountain, Georgia, reviving the name of the Reconstruction-era organization. This second Klan grew into a mass movement with millions of members across the United States during the 1920s.