Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 15 [ talk · edit · history ] 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 M w occurred off the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaiʻi .

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