On this day: October 15

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October 15

Air India Boeing 747​

• 1815 – Napoleon began his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, which would encompass his final six years.
• 1932 – Air India (modern aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
• 1954 – Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.
• 1996 – The Irish Criminal Assets Bureau was established following the gangland murders of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and investigative journalist Veronica Guerin.
• 2006 – An earthquake registering 6.7 Mw occurred off the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaiʻi.

• Tadeusz Kościuszko (d. 1817)
• Hiram Fong (b. 1906)
• Jamie Stuart (b. 1976)
• Jim Bolger (d. 2025)

More anniversaries:

• October 14
• October 15
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