What happened on July 15? There are more than 281 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About July 15
July 15 is the 197th day of the year 2024. There are 169 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 29th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Plainview, Nebraska 68769 sunrise will occur at 06:07 AM and sunset will occur at 09:07 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 198 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For July 15
- 1099First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
- 1149The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
- 1207King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
- 1240Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
- 1381John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
- 1410Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
- 1685Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
- 1741Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
- 1789Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
- 1799The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.
- 1806Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
- 1815Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
- 1823A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
- 1838Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
- 1870Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 1870Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
- 1888The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
- 1910In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
- 1916In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
- 1918World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
- 1920The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
- 1927Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 1954First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
- 1955Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- 1959The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
- 1966Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
- 1974In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
- 1975Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
- 1979U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called “malaise” speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation” but in which he never uses the word malaise
- 1980A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing US$160 million in damage.
- 1983A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
- 1985The Nintendo Entertainment System, the best-selling game console of its time, is released in Japan.
- 1996A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
- 1997In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
- 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.
- 2002Anti-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.
- 2003AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
- 2009Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes in northwestern Iran, killing all 153 aboard.
Who Were Born On July 15?
- 1273Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
- 1353Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
- 1471Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
- 1553Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
- 1573Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
- 1606Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (d. 1669)
- 1631Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
- 1704August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
- 1737Princess Louise Marie of France, daughter of King Louis XV of France (d. 1787)
- 1779Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet (d. 1863)
- 1796Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1867)
- 1799Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
- 1808Henry Edward Manning, English Catholic archbishop and cardinal (d. 1892)
- 1812James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
- 1837Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German-born Queen consort of Portugal, wife of King Peter V of Portugal (d. 1859)
- 1848Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
- 1850Saint Francesca Xavier Cabrini, Italian-born American Catholic nun and saint (d. 1917)
- 1851Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian writer (d. 1889)
- 1864Marie Tempest, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
- 1865Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
- 1870Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
- 1871Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
- 1892Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
- 1893Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (d. 1970)
- 1894Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
- 1899Seán Lemass, Irish politician, 3rd Taoiseach (d. 1971)
- 1902Jean Rey, Belgian politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
- 1903Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
- 1904Rudolf Arnheim, German-born American author and psychologist (d. 2007)
- 1905Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (d. 1974)
- 1906Rudolf Uhlenhaut, England-born German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989)
- 1910Ken Lynch, American actor d. 1990
- 1911Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
- 1913Abraham Sutzkever, Russian Yiddish poet (d. 2010)
- 1913Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963)
- 1914Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani social scientist, pioneer of microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
- 1914Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
- 1914Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
- 1915Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist (d. 2010)
- 1918Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003)
- 1918Joan Roberts, American actress
- 1919Iris Murdoch, Irish philosopher (d. 1999)
- 1921Henri Colpi, French film director (d. 2006)
- 1921Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
- 1922Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1925Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1926Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan novelist (d. 2007)
- 1926Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
- 1927Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1928Carl Woese, American microbiologist
- 1929Charles Anthony, American tenor
- 1929Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-born French musician and novelist (d. 2001)
- 1930Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1930Richard Garneau, French-Canadian sports journalist
- 1930Stephen Smale, American mathematician
- 1931Clive Cussler, American novelist
- 1932Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
- 1932Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (d. 2010)
- 1933Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
- 1933Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
- 1934Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
- 1934Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
- 1935Alex Karras, American football player and actor
- 1935Donn Clendenon, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1935Ken Kercheval, American actor
- 1936George Voinovich, American politician
- 1938Barry Goldwater Jr., American politician
- 1938Ernie Barnes, American painter and football player (d. 2009)
- 1939Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese politician
- 1939Patrick Wayne, American actor
- 1940Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass-murderer (d. 1990)
- 1941Denis Héroux, French-Canadian film director and producer
- 1942Mil Máscaras, Mexican professional wrestler and actor
- 1943Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
- 1944Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor
- 1944Millie Jackson, American singer
- 1945Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
- 1946Hassanal Bolkiah, 29th Sultan of Brunei
- 1946Linda Ronstadt, American singer
- 1947Peter Banks, British guitarist (Yes)
- 1948Alicia Bridges, American singer
- 1948Artimus Pyle, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1948Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek writer, literary critic and anthropologist
- 1949Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
- 1949Trevor Horn, British music producer
- 1950Arianna Huffington, Greek-born American newspaper columnist
- 1950Colin Barnett, Australian politician
- 1951Jesse Ventura, American professional wrestler and politician
- 1952Celia Imrie, British actress
- 1952Johnny Thunders, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (New York Dolls, The Heartbreakers) (d. 1991)
- 1952Judy McGrath, American television executive
- 1952Terry O'Quinn, American actor
- 1953Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian politician and Head of State
- 1953John Denham, British politician
- 1954Giorgos Kaminis, Greek professor of constitutional law and current mayor of Athens
- 1954Jeff Jarvis, American journalist
- 1954Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer
- 1954Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer
- 1956Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey coach and commentator
- 1956Ian Curtis, British singer and songwriter (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
- 1956Joe Satriani, American guitarist
- 1956Marky Ramone, American drummer (Ramones, Richard Hell & the Voidoids)
- 1956Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver
- 1958Gary Heale, English footballer
- 1958Mac Thornberry, American politician
- 1959Shep Pettibone, American record producer
- 1959Vincent Lindon, French actor
- 1960Kim Alexis, American supermodel and actress
- 1960Willie Aames, American actor
- 1961Forest Whitaker, American actor
- 1961Jean-Christophe Grangé, French writer and screenwriter
- 1961Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
- 1961Scott Ritter, American UN weapons inspector
- 1962Nikos Filippou, Greek basketball player
- 1962Steve Brown, American darts player
- 1963Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-born actress
- 1963Steve Thomas, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965David Miliband, British politician
- 1965Eleftherios Fotiadis, Greek footballer
- 1966Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Greek poet
- 1966Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
- 1966Jason Bonham, English drummer (Bonham), son of John Bonham
- 1967Adam Savage, co-host of the television series MythBusters
- 1968Eddie Griffin, American comedian
- 1968Stan Kirsch, American actor
- 1971Danijela, Croatian singer
- 1972Beth Ostrosky, American model
- 1972Scott Foley, American actor
- 1973Brian Austin Green, American actor
- 1973Buju Banton, Jamaican dancehall reggae artist
- 1973John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born American drummer (System of a Down)
- 1973Kris Holm, Canadian mountain unicycling pioneer
- 1974Chot Ulep, Filipino bassist and songwriter
- 1974Chris Taylor, Australian comedian (The Chaser)
- 1974Marilita Lambropoulou, Greek actress
- 1975Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
- 1975Kara Drew (Cherry), American pro wrestler
- 1976Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model
- 1976Jim Jones, American rapper
- 1977Andre Nel, South African cricketer
- 1977Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
- 1977John St. Clair, American football player
- 1977Kitana Baker, American model
- 1977Lana Parrilla, American actress
- 1977Ray Toro, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance)
- 1978Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
- 1979Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
- 1979Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress
- 1980Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
- 1980Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980Kelli Martin, American fashion designer
- 1980Mike Zambidis, Greek kickboxer
- 1980Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
- 1981Alou Diarra, French footballer
- 1981Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
- 1982Alan Pérez, Spanish cyclist
- 1982Neemia Tialata, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1983Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
- 1984Alex Boyd, Scottish photographer
- 1984Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer
- 1984Vice Cooler, American singer-songwriter (Hawnay Troof, Xbxrx)
- 1985Chris Tiu, Filipino professional basketball player, TV host, commercial model, and politician
- 1986Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989Tristan Wilds, American actor
- 1990J.B. Gaynor, American actor
- 1990Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
- 1991Derrick Favors, American basketball player
- 1992Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
Who Died On July 15?
- 1085Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer (b. c. 1015)
- 1262Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
- 1274Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (b. 1221)
- 1291Rudolph I of Germany, King of the Romans (b. 1218)
- 1381John Ball, English priest (b. 1338)
- 1406Duke William of Austria (b. c. 1370)
- 1410Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (b. 1360)
- 1521Juan Ponce de León, Spanish explorer (b. 1458)
- 1544René of Châlon, Dutch Prince of the House of Orange (b. 1519)
- 1571Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
- 1609Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
- 1614Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (b. c. 1540)
- 1655Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
- 1685James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England (b. 1649)
- 1750Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
- 1765Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
- 1767Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
- 1789Jacques Duphly, French composer (b. 1715)
- 1828Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
- 1839Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
- 1844Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
- 1857Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
- 1871Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (b. 1858)
- 1885Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (b. 1837)
- 1890Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
- 1898Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-born American Catholic prelate, the first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
- 1904Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
- 1919Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
- 1929Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
- 1930Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
- 1930Rudolph Schildkraut, Istanbul born American actor (b. 1930)
- 1931Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
- 1932Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (b. 1873)
- 1933Freddie Keppard, American Jazz cornetist (b. 1890)
- 1933Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
- 1940Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
- 1940Robert Wadlow, American; at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest person ever known (b. 1918)
- 1942Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (b. 1910)
- 1944Marie-Victorin, French Canadian De La Salle Christian Brother and botanist (b. 1885)
- 1946Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1947Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
- 1948John J. Pershing, U.S. general (b. 1860)
- 1953Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian Christian Bishop, founder of the Order of the Imitation of Christ (b. 1882)
- 1957James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
- 1957Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
- 1958Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
- 1959Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
- 1959Vance Palmer, Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic (b. 1885)
- 1960Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer and actor (b. 1896)
- 1960Set Persson, Swedish Communist politician (b. 1897)
- 1961John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
- 1965Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
- 1974Christine Chubbuck, American television news reporter (b. 1944)
- 1977Donald Mackay, Australian anti-drugs campaigner (b. 1933)
- 1979Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
- 1982Bill Justis, American trumpet and saxophone player and producer (b. 1926)
- 1986Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)
- 1989Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
- 1990Margaret Lockwood, British actress (b. 1916)
- 1991Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
- 1992Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist (b. 1960)
- 1992Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
- 1993Bobby Kent, American murder victim (b. 1973)
- 1993David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1996Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
- 1997Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
- 2000Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925)
- 2003Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
- 2003Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
- 2006Robert H. Brooks, American founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)
- 2008György Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist (b. 1972)
- 2008Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (b. 1970)
- 2009Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (b. 1958)
- 2010James E. Akins, American diplomat and advisor to Richard Nixon (b. 1926)
- 2011Googie Withers, British actress (b. 1917)
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