What happened on 15 October?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1542 Born: Akbar the Great Greatest Mughal emperor; expanded the empire and pursued religious tolerance.
2. 1926 Born: Michel Foucault Philosopher; analyses of power, sexuality, prisons.
3. 1973 Sharon crosses the Canal Finding the seam between Egypt's two armies, Ariel Sharon's division fights across the Suez Canal at Deversoir and turns the war inside out: Israeli tanks fan out on the African ba
4. 1582 Gregorian calendar reform Pope Gregory XIII corrects the drifting Julian calendar; the Gregorian calendar is now the world's civil standard.
5. 2017 MeToo movement viral Alyssa Milano's tweet sends Tarana Burke's 2006 phrase viral after the Weinstein revelations.
6. 1904 The voyage of the Baltic Fleet With the Pacific squadron bottled up, the Tsar sends his Baltic Fleet the long way round the world — 18,000 miles, seven months, coaling from German colliers in the tropics because
7. 1917 Mata Hari executed Dutch dancer Margaretha Zelle ('Mata Hari') executed by French firing squad as a German spy.
8. 1905 Debussy's La Mer Three symphonic sketches evoking the sea.
9. 1966 Black Panther Party founded Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form the militant Black self-defence and community organisation in Oakland.
10. 2003 Shenzhou 5: China's first astronaut Yang Liwei orbits fourteen times and China becomes the third nation to launch its own people into space — forty-two years after Gagarin, with a station to follow within twenty.