Here are some of the great historical events that happened today, October 15th, in history!
| 1555 | The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England. |
| 1701 | Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Kilingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal.  |
| 1793 | Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution. |
| 1846 | Ether was first administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed by Dr. John Collins Warren. |
| 1859 | Abolitionist John Brown, hoping to start an anti-slavery rebellion, led a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia. |
