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This Date in History - August 15th
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* 778 The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed.
* 927 The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
* 982 Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
* 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.
* 1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
* 1057 King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Mαel Coluim mac Donnchada.
* 1185 The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
* 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.)
* 1261 Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
* 1309 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.
* 1430 Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
* 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.
* 1483 Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
* 1517 Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernγo Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
* 1519 Panama City, Panama, is founded.
* 1534 Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
* 1537 Asunciσn, Paraguay, is founded.
* 1540 Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
* 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.
* 1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.
* 1824 Freed American slaves found Liberia.
* 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.
* 1863 The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
* 1869 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
* 1891 San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
* 1907 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
* 1909 A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
* 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 Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.
* 1914 The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
* 1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw Poles defeat the Red Army.
* 1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
* 1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.
* 1940 An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbour during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
* 1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
* 1942 World War II: Operation Pedestal The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
* 1944 World War II: Operation Dragoon Allied forces land in southern France.
* 1945 World War II: Victory over Japan Day Japan surrenders.
* 1945 World War II: Korean Liberation Day.
* 1947 India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth.
* 1947 Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.
* 1948 The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
* 1954 Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
* 1950 Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
* 1952 Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people.
* 1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
* 1961 Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
* 1962 James Joseph Dresnok defects to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
* 1963 Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
* 1963 President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
* 1965 The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.
* 1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.
* 1971 President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
* 1973 Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
* 1974 Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
* 1975 Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rehman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1984 The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
* 1995 In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
* 1998 Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
* 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.
* 2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
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This Date in History - August 15th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 778 The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed.
* 927 The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
* 982 Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
* 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.
* 1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
* 1057 King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Mαel Coluim mac Donnchada.
* 1185 The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
* 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.)
* 1261 Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
* 1309 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.
* 1430 Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
* 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.
* 1483 Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
* 1517 Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernγo Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
* 1519 Panama City, Panama, is founded.
* 1534 Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
* 1537 Asunciσn, Paraguay, is founded.
* 1540 Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
* 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.
* 1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.
* 1824 Freed American slaves found Liberia.
* 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.
* 1863 The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
* 1869 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
* 1891 San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
* 1907 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
* 1909 A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
* 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 Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.
* 1914 The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
* 1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw Poles defeat the Red Army.
* 1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
* 1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.
* 1940 An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbour during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
* 1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
* 1942 World War II: Operation Pedestal The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
* 1944 World War II: Operation Dragoon Allied forces land in southern France.
* 1945 World War II: Victory over Japan Day Japan surrenders.
* 1945 World War II: Korean Liberation Day.
* 1947 India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth.
* 1947 Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.
* 1948 The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
* 1954 Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
* 1950 Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
* 1952 Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people.
* 1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
* 1961 Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
* 1962 James Joseph Dresnok defects to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
* 1963 Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
* 1963 President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
* 1965 The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.
* 1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.
* 1971 President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
* 1973 Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
* 1974 Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
* 1975 Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rehman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1984 The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
* 1995 In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
* 1998 Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
* 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.
* 2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
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