User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/October 15

October 15

 * 1552 - Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny.
 * 1863 - American Civil War: The first submarine to sink a ship, and first to sink an enemy warship, CSS H. L. Hunley sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
 * 1880 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
 * 1894 - Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying - Dreyfus affair begins.
 * 1904 - The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
 * 1945 - World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
 * 1946 - Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution.