Notable Historical Events on July 15th
July 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1099 |
City of Jerusalem is captured and plundered by Christian forces during the First Crusade |
1205 |
Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitudea and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus |
1207 |
King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton. |
1240 |
A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. |
1307 |
Duke Henrik of Corinthia chosen as King of Bohemia |
1381 |
John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hung, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England. |
1410 |
Battle of Grunwald (2nd Battle of Tannenburg), one of the largest battles of medieval Europe, during Poland-Lithuanian Teutonic War. Polish King Władysław Jagiełło (Jogaila) and Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas led defeat against Teutonic Ulrich von Jungingen |
1500 |
Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion |
1500 |
Baglione family massacre at the "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in Perugia |
1501 |
Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon |
1524 |
Emperor Karel I bans German national synode |
1538 |
Peace talks between Karel & King Francois I |
1662 |
King Charles II charters Royal Society in London |
1741 |
Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska. |
1755 |
French ambassador recalled from London |
1779 |
American troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY |
1783 |
1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France |
1787 |
Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes |
1789 |
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris. |
1795 |
"Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem |
1799 |
The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. |
1806 |
Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest |
1808 |
French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples |
1815 |
Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo |
1815 |
1st flat horse race held at English race track Cheltenham on Nottingham Hill |
1823 |
A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. |
1830 |
Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, sign fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri |
1840 |
Great Britain, Russia, Austria & Prussia sign Quadruple Alliance |
1850 |
John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's |
1856 |
Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony |
1862 |
CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R |
1863 |
Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army |
1864 |
Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 & injuring 109 of 955 aboard |
1867 |
San Francisco Merchants' Exchange opens |
1869 |
Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy |
1870 |
Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to US |
1870 |
Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created |
1870 |
Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada |
1876 |
Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford |
1880 |
4th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Hartley beats H Lawford (6-2 6-3 6-2 2-6 6-3) |
1888 |
Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years |
1893 |
Commodore Perry arrives in Japan |
1895 |
12th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats H Jackson (7-5 8-6) |
1895 |
19th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats W Eaves (4-6 2-6 8-6 6-2 6-3) |
1898 |
Camillo Golgi discovers the Golgi Apparatus (a delicate network inside cells essential for the transmission and reception of information between cells) |
1900 |
President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin |
1901 |
NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0 |
1902 |
Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex v Surrey |
1904 |
1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles |
1906 |
Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam |
1909 |
Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs |
1911 |
46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines |
1912 |
British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect |
1914 |
Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe |
1915 |
The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City; an examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US |
1915 |
The Austro-German forces launch an offensive along the Eastern Front |
1916 |
22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record) |
1916 |
Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash |
1918 |
2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I |
1920 |
Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season |
1922 |
1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo |
1922 |
26th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill |
1923 |
27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in NY |
1923 |
Italian parliament accepts new constitution |
1926 |
VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms |
1927 |
62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews |
1927 |
Massacre in Vienna: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police |
1929 |
1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca |
1932 |
President Hoover cuts own salary 15% |
1933 |
Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world |
1934 |
Continental Airlines commences operations. |
1936 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget |
1937 |
Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens |
1937 |
Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China |
1938 |
Arthur Fagg completes 244 & 202 in the same cricket game for Kent |
1939 |
Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight |
1940 |
1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il |
1940 |
Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam |
1940 |
Physicist Donald Kerst becomes the first person to accelerate electrons using electromagnetic induction, reaching energies of 2.3 MeV, when his betatron device (for particle acceleration) becomes operational |
1941 |
Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin) |
1942 |
1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz |
1942 |
Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps" |
1944 |
Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb |
1945 |
27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton Ohio |
1946 |
British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown |
1948 |
Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain |
1948 |
Pres Harry Truman nominated for another term (Phila) |
1949 |
"Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances |
1949 |
Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US |
1949 |
WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1952 |
1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins |
1953 |
ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names |
1954 |
110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record) |
1954 |
1st coml jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707) |
1954 |
KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. |
1956 |
Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational |
1956 |
Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
1957 |
Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die |
1957 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months |
1959 |
The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history. |
1960 |
Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle |
1960 |
UN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis after Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé's declaration of independence for Katanga province |
1961 |
"Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 68 performances |
1961 |
90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale |
1961 |
Spain accepts equal rights for men & women |
1962 |
Algeria becomes member of Arab League |
1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
1962 |
Netherlands & Indonesia reach agreement over New Guinea |
1963 |
KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding |
1964 |
Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans |
1965 |
"Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars |
1965 |
Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece |
1967 |
"Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 608 performances |
1967 |
LA Wolves beat Wash Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Ass champs |
1967 |
Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
"One Life to Live" premieres on TV |
1968 |
Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR |
1968 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1968 |
NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA) |
1968 |
Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres |
1969 |
Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader |
1969 |
Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season |
1970 |
Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship |
1971 |
Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China |
1972 |
101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane |
1972 |
Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship |
1973 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0 |
1973 |
Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
1973 |
Paul Getty III kidnapped |
1973 |
Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide |
1973 |
Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs |
1974 |
Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees |
1975 |
46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee |
1975 |
All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) & John Matlock (NY Mets) |
1975 |
Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; will rendezvous 2 days later |
1976 |
36-hr kidnap of 26 school children & their bus driver in Calif |
1978 |
107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St Andrews |
1979 |
34th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz |
1979 |
Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India |
1980 |
Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher which breaks Yogi Berra's record |
1982 |
Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle |
1982 |
Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas |
1982 |
Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0 |
1983 |
8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France |
1983 |
Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance" |
1984 |
39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
1984 |
John Lennon's "I'm Stepping Out" released posthumously |
1985 |
Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe |
1986 |
57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston |
1986 |
All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox) |
1987 |
Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence |
1987 |
John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings |
1987 |
State of siege ends in Taiwan |
1990 |
45th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
1991 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1991 |
US troops leave northern Iraq |
1991 |
Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks & Phila Spirit |
1992 |
Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed |
1992 |
The Security Council of the UN examine violence in South Africa |
1994 |
Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary |
1994 |
Israel & Jordan agree to talks in Wash DC on July 25th |
1994 |
NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit |
1994 |
Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64) |
1994 |
Hundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire in the Congo near the end of the the Rwandan Genocide |
1995 |
Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton) |
1995 |
Jews take Jerusalem |
1995 |
Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540 |
1996 |
After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd |
1996 |
MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV |
1996 |
Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake |
1996 |
A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. |
1997 |
Jerold Mackenzie awarded $26.6M (later reduced to $625,000) for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker |
1999 |
The inaugural game at the Seattle Mariners' Safeco Field was held in Seattle, Washington. |
1999 |
Scientists uncover possible reason for SS Waratah's disappearance 100 years later; The SS Waratah was a luxury steamer which did not reach its destination in 1909, and no trace of the wreckage was ever found |
2002 |
"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. |
2002 |
Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. |
2003 |
AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. |
2003 |
74th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-6 at U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago |
2005 |
After declining an offer to remain with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Mike Babcock is named head coach of the Detroit Red Wings |
2005 |
"Wedding Crashers", starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, premieres |
2009 |
A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a small tsunami. |
2012 |
39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal |
2012 |
A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station |
2013 |
13 people are killed by a car bomb in Deir Atiyah, Syria |
2013 |
18 people are killed and 47 are injured in a riot following a boxing match in Indonesia |
2014 |
20 people are killed & 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow |
2016 |
Donald Trump chooses Mike Pence as his running mate |
2016 |
Britain warns citizens after truck attack kills 73 in Nice |
2016 |
Truck attacker kills up to 80 in Nice Bastille Day crowd |
2016 |
Nintendo surges to hit six-year high, Pokemon GO hits UK market |
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