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Today In History - August 15 |
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On This Date in History |
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778 The Battle at Roncevalles 1997 The Los Angeles Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's number: #2 1997 The Dow Jones drops 247.37 points 1997 Dan Wilson hits the Seattle Mariners' 3,000th home run 1995 Keylee Sue Sanders is crowned 13th Miss Teen USA 1994 Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, is captured in Khartoum Sudan 1994 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning 1993 Televangelist Robert Tilton announces that he is divorcing Marte 1993 Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament 1993 75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger 1991 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1991 750,000 people attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park 1989 U.S. Venus probe Magellan is launched from the Space Shuttle 1989 Frederik de Klerk becomes the president of South Africa 1988 New York City begins a $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments 1987 The U.S. beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball 1985 Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg 1982 Equatorial Guinea adopts a constitution 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic 1979 Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador 1977 SS Chief Kappler escapes from a prison hospital in Rome 1976 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic 1975 Joanne Little is acquitted of murder charges 1975 Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed 1974 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes an assassination attempt 1974 Hurricanes and flooding ravages Bangladesh: 4,000 people are killed 1974 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island 1973 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test 1973 Black September kills 3 people and wounds 55 more in Athens 1971 President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices, and rents 1971 Charles Lismont wins the Helsinki marathon in 2:13:09 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman pro football player: Orlando 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State at Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm 1968 The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae 1966 Radio Free Asia in South Korea begins radio transmission 1965 Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium 1964 Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago 1963 Fulbert Youlou resigns as the President of Congo-Brazzaville 1962 Shady Grove Baptist Church is burned in Leesburg, Georgia 1962 Netherlands and Indonesia sign an accord about New Guinea 1958 Soviet Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank 1958 Rocker Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago 1954 Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay 1950 The Rotterdam harbor strike begins 1950 President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia 1950 Joseph Pholien becomes the Belgian premier 1950 Indies Constitution goes into effect 1950 An 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000 1948 Republic of Korea, South Korea, is proclaimed 1947 Pakistan, formerly West Pakistan, declares independence from UK 1947 India declares independence from the UK 1945 The U.S. wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends 1945 South Korea is liberated from Japanese rule 1945 A riot ensued in San Francisco while the city was celebrating the end of WW II 1944 The U.S. 7th Armor division reaches Chartres 1944 The U.S. 12 Army Corp enters Le Mans through Orleans 1944 Operation Dragoon: the Allied troops land in Provence 1944 Operation Anvil: the Allies land on the French Mediterranean sea coast 1944 Allied air raid on a train in the North Netherlands kills 32 people 1943 The Allies land on Kiska Aleutians 1942 Five hostages are executed by the Nazis in St. Michielsgestel 1941 The Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into the Slobodka ghetto 1940 Heavy aerial dogfights over England: 75 German aircrafts damaged 1940 The first edition of the Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam under the Nazi regime 1939 "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood 1925 Norway annexes Spitsbergen 1923 Mexico and the U.S. reach an accord over oil concession of 1917 1923 Eamon de Valera is arrested in Irish Free State 1918 Russia severs diplomatic ties with the U.S. 1918 The first full length cartoon shows: Sinking of Lusitania 1915 Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim is convicted of murder in Georgia 1914 The Panama Canal opens 1914 Japan joins the side of the Allies 1914 German assault at Dinant (Lt. Charles de Gaulle) 1914 Dinant Belgium is destroyed by German bombs 1911 Procter and Gamble unveils Crisco shortening 1906 The first freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago 1893 The U.S. is no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea 1876 A U.S. law removes the Indians from the South Dakota Black Hills after gold find 1870 Transcontinental Railway is actually completed: in Colorado 1867 The second Reform Bill extends suffrage in England 1863 The Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars 1858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins 1848 M. Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair 1843 The National black convention meets in Buffalo, New York 1824 Freed American slaves form the county of Liberia 1795 Joseph Haydn leaves England forever 1785 French cardinal De Rohan arrested 1760 Battle at Leignitz 1748 The United Lutheran Church of the U.S. organized 1741 French troops attack at the Rhine 1684 Spain and Germany sign a cease fire with France 1668 Rijnbond disbands 1658 France, Sweden, Bavarian, Brunswick, Munster, Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond 1635 The first recorded U.S. hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony 1620 The Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims 1548 Mary queen of Scotland arrives in France 1534 Ignatius of Loyola forms the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order) 1519 Panama City is founded 1457 The earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," is completed |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1432 Luigi Pulci 1619 Hubertus Quellinus 1688 Frederick-William I 1702 Francesco Zuccarelli 1725 Ferdinando Bertoni 1727 Johann Georg Holzbogen 1736 Johann Christoph Kellner 1740 M. Claudius 1741 Thomas Norris 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte 1771 Walter Scott 1776 Gottlieb Schick 1776 Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried 1782 Henri MG earl the Merode 1785 Thomas De Quincey 1787 Alexander Aliabiev 1788 Carel SW van Hogendorp 1794 Elias M. Fries 1803 James Douglas 1822 Wilhelm Rust 1823 Orris Sanford Ferry 1829 Eduard de Hartog 1839 Hugh Archibald Clarke 1845 Walter Crane 1860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding 1860 Roosje Vos 1866 Charles-Jean Vallee-Poussin 1872 Harold Fraser-Simson 1872 Rubin Goldmark 1874 Joseph Klausner 1875 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1876 Aleksandar Belic 1878 Pjotr N. Wrangel 1879 Ethel Barrymore 1885 Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko 1885 Edna Ferber 1885 Mary Nash 1886 Bill Whitty 1887 Edna Ferber, U.S., author, American Beauty, Cimarron 1888 Albert Spalding 1890 Jacques Ibert 1892 Knud Christian Jeppesen 1892 Louis-Victor prince of Broglie 1893 Harlow H. Curtice 1896 Leon Theremin 1897 Marion Eugene Bauer 1898 Lillian Carter 1900 Estelle Brody 1901 Arias Arnulfo 1901 Byron Arnold 1901 Hans Lorbeer 1901 Sulho Ranta 1902 Jan R.T. Campert 1904 Bill Baird 1906 Finn Videro 1907 Paul Vincze 1909 Raymond O'Malley 1910 Hugo Winterhalter 1910 Josef Klaus 1910 Signe Hasso 1912 Julia Child 1912 Wendy Hiller 1912 Wijnanda M. C. "Nan" Aberson 1914 Paul Rand 1914 Peter Nicholson Gunn 1915 Alma Gardeslan 1915 Kamiel van Baelen 1915 Signe Hasso 1918 Fay Honey Knopp 1918 Raymond Gallois-Montbrun 1919 Huntz Hall 1922 Lukas Foss 1923 Rose Marie 1923 Simon Peres 1924 Phyllis Schlafly 1924 Robert Bolt 1924 Robert Oxton Bolt 1925 Billy Pinkney 1925 Gertrude Shope 1925 Mike Connors 1925 Oscar Peterson 1925 Rose Marie 1926 Georgiann Johnson 1926 Lewis T. Preston 1926 Lyutsian Abramovich Prigozhn 1927 Eddie Leadbeater 1928 Nicolas Roeg 1931 Janice Rule 1931 Mario Kuri-Aldana 1933 Bobby Helms 1933 Floyd Ashton 1933 Lori Nelson 1934 Reg Scarlett 1934 Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov 1935 Abby Dalton 1935 Jim Dale 1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. 1937 Ronnie G. Flippo 1938 Maxine Waters 1938 Stephen Breyer 1939 Herman van Keeken 1941 Don Rich 1941 Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev 1942 Peter York 1943 Barbara Bouchet 1943 Eni F. H. Faleomavaega 1944 Frederick Knight 1944 Linda Ellerbee 1945 Charlemagne Palestine 1945 Gene Upshaw 1945 Khaleda Zia 1945 Thomas C. Sawyer 1946 Jimmy Webb 1946 Kathryn Jean Whitmire 1947 Brian Hulls 1947 Geraldo Velez 1947 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter, Jr. 1949 Ann Ryerson 1949 Carlien Brouwer 1949 Kate Taylor 1950 Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor 1950 Tess Harper 1950 Thomas Aldrich 1950 William "Bill" Griffin 1951 Bobby Caldwell 1951 John Childs 1952 Ger Hoeymakers 1955 Kenneth Carr 1955 Larry Mathews 1956 Gordon Bruks 1956 Vinny Denunzio 1957 Zeljko Ivanek 1959 Scott D. Altman 1960 Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper 1960 Ron van de Berg 1960 Tommy Aldridge 1961 Joan Delk 1961 Matt Johnson 1962 Bubby Brister 1962 Igor Dorokhin 1963 Greg Adams 1963 Jack Russell 1963 Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel 1964 Debi Mazar 1965 Jon Evans 1966 Fred Strickland 1966 Leo Goeas 1967 Mike James 1967 Moulay Brahim Boutaib 1967 Neil Wilkinson 1968 Luciana Bemvenuti 1968 Vassili Pankov 1969 Eric Bieniemy 1969 James Black 1969 Mark Heese 1969 Pavel Kamentsev 1969 Yancey Thigpen 1970 Dawn Ponte 1971 Perry Carter 1972 Ben Affleck 1972 Freddie Solomon 1972 Jason Maniecki 1972 Ken Walter 1972 Mikey Graham 1973 Marcus Jones 1974 Natasha Henstridge 1974 Ramon Morel 1975 Bert Berry 1975 Jurgen Dirkx 1976 Boudewijn Send 1976 Ger Unterluggauer 1976 Priscilla Taylor |
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