Notable Historical Events on August 15th
August 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
778 |
Battle of Roncevaux Pass: Roland, commander of the rearguard of Charlemagne's army is defeated by the Basques |
927 |
The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto. |
1040 |
King Duncan I of Scotland killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth (not murdered in his sleep as per Shakespeare's play). The latter does succeed him as King. |
1185 |
The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. |
1248 |
Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun |
1308 |
Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece |
1457 |
Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed |
1461 |
The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered. |
1517 |
Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary. |
1519 |
Panama City founded |
1534 |
Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits |
1537 |
Asunción, Paraguay, is founded. |
1540 |
Arequipa, Peru, is founded. |
1548 |
Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France |
1549 |
Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549). |
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. |
1620 |
Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims |
1635 |
1st recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony |
1653 |
-16] Dutch ship "Sperwer" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea |
1658 |
France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Confederation of the Rhine |
1668 |
Confederation of the Rhine disbands |
1684 |
Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France |
1741 |
French troops attack the Rhine |
1748 |
United Lutheran Church the American colonies organized |
1760 |
Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia |
1785 |
French cardinal De Rohan arrested |
1795 |
Joseph Haydn leaves England forever |
1824 |
Freed American slaves establish Liberia on the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS) |
1832 |
Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism |
1843 |
National black convention meets (Buffalo NY) |
1843 |
Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens |
1848 |
M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair |
1858 |
Regular mail to Pacific coast begins |
1861 |
Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO |
1863 |
Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars |
1863 |
The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863). |
1864 |
Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners |
1865 |
Battle of Lone Jack, Missouri |
1867 |
2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England |
1869 |
The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto. |
1870 |
Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado |
1876 |
US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find |
1886 |
Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game |
1891 |
San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed. |
1892 |
4th & last British government of William Gladstone forms |
1893 |
US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea |
1899 |
Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game |
1900 |
Russian troops advance further unto Manchuria |
1900 |
In China, the Empress and some of her family, the court, and retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to put down the Boxer Rebellion |
1901 |
Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro |
1901 |
Great Britain issues a proclamation calling on the Boers to surrender by 15 September or face banishment and confiscation of their property |
1903 |
The New Zealand All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match against Australia's Wallabies at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; New Zealand wins, 22-3 |
1905 |
Phila A's Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings |
1906 |
1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago |
1906 |
Kind Edward VII of Britain visits Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations' naval forces |
1911 |
Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening |
1912 |
Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game |
1914 |
13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2) |
1914 |
Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs |
1914 |
German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured |
1914 |
Japan joins side of allies |
1914 |
Panama Canal opens (under cost) |
1914 |
A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground. |
1914 |
The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads |
1914 |
US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, in a letter to J P Morgan, declares that loans to any of the belligerents go against US neutrality |
1915 |
Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia |
1918 |
1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania) |
1918 |
Russia severs diplomatic ties with US |
1923 |
Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State |
1923 |
Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917 |
1925 |
Norway annexes Spitsbergen |
1925 |
White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919 |
1931 |
Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi) |
1931 |
Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary |
1931 |
Spakenburg soccer team forms |
1939 |
First night game at baseball's Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2 |
1939 |
13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors. |
1939 |
"The Wizard of Oz", premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, stars Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Frank Morgan (Wizard), Billie Burke (Glinda), and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch). |
1940 |
1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazis) |
1940 |
Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircraft damaged |
1941 |
Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto |
1942 |
5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel |
1943 |
Allies land on Kiska Aleutians |
1944 |
Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed |
1944 |
German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day |
1944 |
Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast |
1944 |
Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence |
1944 |
US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans |
1944 |
US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres |
1945 |
A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II |
1945 |
US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends |
1945 |
Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually |
1945 |
World War II: Korean Liberation Day. |
1945 |
Victory over Japan Day, the Japanese surrender and the end of WWII is announced in Japan (due to time zones 14th Aug in the Americas) |
1947 |
India gains independence from Great Britain, remains a dominion until 1950 |
1948 |
3rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias |
1948 |
Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day) |
1949 |
WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000 |
1950 |
Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title |
1950 |
Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium |
1950 |
Constitution of India goes into effect |
1950 |
Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier |
1950 |
Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia |
1950 |
Rotterdam harbor strike begins |
1950 |
Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. |
1952 |
19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316) |
1952 |
9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34 |
1954 |
Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay |
1954 |
WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins |
1955 |
WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins |
1955 |
Hurricane Connie dissipates after killing 43 in NC, SC, Virginia & Maryland |
1957 |
David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon |
1957 |
USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter |
1958 |
25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000) |
1958 |
Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank |
1960 |
CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium |
1960 |
Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo) |
1960 |
Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France |
1960 |
Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 |
1960 |
UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen |
1961 |
Keiyo Road is specified as the first driveway in Japan. |
1962 |
Netherlands & Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea |
1962 |
Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia |
1963 |
Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville |
1964 |
Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke) |
1964 |
Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago |
1964 |
Phillies triple-play NY Mets |
1964 |
Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill |
1964 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½" |
1965 |
47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA |
1965 |
Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium |
1965 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open |
1965 |
Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues |
1966 |
Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission |
1967 |
Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae |
1967 |
UK's Marine Offences Bill making pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down |
1968 |
Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting |
1968 |
Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu visits Prague |
1968 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1969 |
Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) |
1970 |
Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) |
1971 |
Bahrain gains independence from Britain |
1971 |
Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0) |
1971 |
KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins |
1971 |
US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents |
1971 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open |
1971 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party announce a campaign of civil disobedience in response to the introduction of Internment in Northern Ireland |
1973 |
Black September kills 3 and wounds 55 in Athens |
1973 |
David Storey's "Cromwell" premieres in London |
1973 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1974 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1974 |
Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed |
1974 |
Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days)) |
1974 |
South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination |
1975 |
Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed |
1975 |
Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges |
1975 |
Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. |
1976 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
1977 |
England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Aust |
1977 |
Herbert Kappler, head of Nazi police and security services in Rome during WWII, escapes from prison hospital in Rome |
1978 |
US House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA |
1979 |
Andrew Young resigns as US ambassador to the United Nations |
1979 |
"Apocalypse Now", starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen, is released |
1981 |
Ian Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford |
1981 |
Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m |
1982 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
1982 |
Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution |
1983 |
Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery |
1984 |
The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military |
1985 |
PW Botha gives the "Rubicon" Speech in Durban, South Africa, dissapointing many by refusing to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid system |
1985 |
First Iraqi air raid on Iran's main oil export terminal, Kharg Island |
1986 |
President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger |
1987 |
US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball |
1987 |
At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition |
1988 |
"Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 perfs |
1988 |
At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts |
1988 |
NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments |
1989 |
Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa |
1989 |
Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69) |
1989 |
US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle |
1989 |
In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines |
1990 |
51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
1990 |
Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons |
1990 |
Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990) |
1990 |
At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa |
1991 |
750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park |
1991 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1992 |
Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy |
1993 |
"Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances |
1993 |
75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh |
1993 |
Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament |
1993 |
NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time |
1993 |
Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1 |
1993 |
Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte |
1994 |
South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning |
1994 |
Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan |
1995 |
Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA |
1997 |
Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR |
1997 |
Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts |
1997 |
LA Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2 |
1998 |
Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, killed 29 people and injured about 220 |
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. |
1999 |
81st PGA Championship: Tiger Woods shoots a 277 at Medinah Country Club |
2004 |
Bay of Plenty win Rugby Union's Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield's 102 year history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges. They defeated Auckland. 33-26 |
2004 |
86th PGA Championship: Vijay Singh shoots a 280 at Whistling Straits |
2005 |
87th PGA Championship: Phil Mickelson shoots a 276 at Baltusrol Golf Club |
2007 |
An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. |
2008 |
Lee Berger and his nine-year-old son, Matthew, discover the two-million-year-old fossils of a new species of human ancestor (Australopithecus sediba) at Malapa Cave, South Africa |
2009 |
Portugal leaves recession after three consecutive quarters of negative growth having its GDP recover by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2009 |
2010 |
92nd PGA Championship: Martin Kaymer shoots a 277 at Whistling Straits |
2013 |
20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut |
2016 |
Reports of Gunfire at JFK Airport Prompt Evacuation |
2016 |
Milwaukee Shaken by Eruption of Violence After Shooting by Police |
2016 |
Andy Murray 1st to Win 2 Olympic Tennis Singles Golds |
2016 |
Usain Bolt streaks to third consecutive Olympic gold in 100 meters |
2017 |
North Korea maps out detailed plan for missile launches to sea off Guam |
2017 |
Jury finds ex-DJ groped Taylor Swift |
2017 |
Dozens rally in Guam for peace amid North Korea threats |
2018 |
Nebraska executes first inmate since 1997 |
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