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What Happened on August 15th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban as Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan along with local residents and foreign nationals, effectively reestablishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
2020	Russia begins production on the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.
2015	North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 8.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;widt
2013	At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
2013	The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
2007	An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
2005	Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2005	The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
1999	Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
1998	Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
1998	Apple introduces the iMac computer.
1995	In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
1995	Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan, releases the Murayama Statement, which formally expresses remorse for Japanese war crimes committed during World War II.
1985	Signing of the Assam Accord, an agreement between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement to end the movement.
1984	The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish Armed Forces with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh.
1977	The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
1976	SAETA Flight 232 crashes into the Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador, killing all 59 people on board; the wreckage is not discovered until 2002.
1975	Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
1975	Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1974	Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee.
1973	Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends.
1971	President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
1971	Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1970	Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
1969	The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in Bethel, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
1965	The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1963	Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
1963	President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
1962	James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
1961	Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1960	Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1959	American Airlines Flight 514, a Boeing 707, crashes near the Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, New York, killing all five people on board.
1954	Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
1952	A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
1950	Measuring .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.
1948	The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula.
1947	India gains independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1947	Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
1945	Emperor Hirohito broadcasts his declaration of surrender following the effective surrender of Japan in World War II; Korea gains independence from the Empire of Japan.
1944	World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
1943	World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
1942	World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1941	Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
1940	An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
1939	Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn.
1939	The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1935	Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
1920	Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
1915	A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
1914	A servant of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, and murders seven people there.
1914	The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1914	World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
1914	World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
1907	Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
1899	Fratton Park football ground in Portsmouth, England is officially first opened.
1893	Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
1863	The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1843	The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1843	Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1824	The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
1760	Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1695	French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
1599	Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1592	Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu.
1549	Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549).
1540	Arequipa, Peru is founded.
1537	Asunción, Paraguay is founded.
1534	Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
1519	Panama City, Panama is founded.
1517	Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1511	Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
1483	Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1461	The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1430	Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1310	The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
1281	Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
1261	Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned as the first Byzantine emperor in fifty-seven years.
1248	The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
1237	Spanish Reconquista: The Battle of the Puig between the Moorish forces of Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon culminates in an Aragonese victory.
1185	The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1096	Starting date of the First Crusade as set by Pope Urban II.
1070	The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
1057	King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
1038	King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him.
1018	Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
982	Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria.
927	The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
805	Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising
778	The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army.
747	Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother, Pepin the Short, becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom.
718	Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
717	Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
636	Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins.

Famous People Born on August 15

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Year	Name
1927	Oliver Popplewell, English cricketer and judge
1839	Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker (d. 1915)
1951	John Childs, English cricketer
1967	Tony Hand, Scottish ice hockey player and coach
1987	Michel Kreder, Dutch cyclist
1950	Tommy Aldridge, American drummer
1951	Bobby Caldwell, American singer-songwriter
1575	Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1650)
1999	Paola Reis, BMX rider
1892	Abraham Wachner, New Zealand politician, 35th Mayor of Invercargill (d. 1950)

Famous People Deaths On August 15

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Date	Name
1506	Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (b. c. 1445)
1990	Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician and actor (b. 1962)
2006	Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand queen (b. 1931)
1994	Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (b. 1929)
1328	Yesün Temür, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (b. 1293)
874	Altfrid, bishop of Hildesheim
1399	Ide Pedersdatter Falk, Danish noblewoman (b. 1358)
1967	René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
1981	Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895)
2014	Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (b. 1909)