# What happened on July 15 in history?

**Date:** July 15  
**Events recorded:** 55  
**Years spanned:** 484 BC – 2018  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/july/15/

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## Featured Event

**2018** — France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_football_team)

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## Events on this date

- **484 BC** — Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Castor_and_Pollux))
- **70** — First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_70))
- **756** — An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_rebellion))
- **1099** — First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade))
- **1149** — The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre))
- **1207** — King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%2C_King_of_England))
- **1240** — Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%E2%80%93Novgorodian_Wars))
- **1381** — John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ball_(priest)))
- **1410** — Polish–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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian%E2%80%93Teutonic_War))
- **1482** — Muhammad XI is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_XI_of_Granada))
- **1640** — The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Turku))
- **1738** — Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitsyn are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Leibov))
- **1741** — Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Chirikov))
- **1789** — French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution))
- **1799** — The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone))
- **1806** — Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri,  to explore the west. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_Expedition))
- **1815** — Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars))
- **1823** — A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside_the_Walls))
- **1834** — The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition))
- **1838** — Ralph 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson))
- **1849** — The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airstrike))
- **1862** — American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1870** — Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era))
- **1870** — Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Confederation))
- **1888** — The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovolcano))
- **1910** — In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Kraepelin))
- **1916** — In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle))
- **1918** — World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1920** — Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_I))
- **1922** — The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party))
- **1927** — Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Revolt_of_1927))
- **1942** — The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust))
- **1946** — The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Borneo))
- **1954** — The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_367-80))
- **1955** — Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize))
- **1966** — Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War))
- **1971** — The United Red Army is founded in Japan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Red_Army))
- **1974** — In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing Makarios III and installing Nikos Sampson as the president of Cyprus. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicosia))
- **1975** — Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race))
- **1975** — Aeroflot Flight E-15 crashes on approach to Batumi International Airport, killing 40. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_E-15))
- **1979** — U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States))
- **1983** — An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Orly_Airport_attack))
- **1983** — Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective releases of the Famicom and SG-1000 in Japan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo))
- **1996** — A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Air_Force))
- **1998** — Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war))
- **2002** — "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban))
- **2002** — The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Terrorism_Court_of_Pakistan))
- **2003** — AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarnerMedia))
- **2006** — Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(social_network)))
- **2009** — Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Airlines_Flight_7908))
- **2009** — Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program))
- **2012** — South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psy))
- **2014** — A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Moscow_Metro_derailment))
- **2016** — Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Armed_Forces))
- **2018** — France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_football_team))

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## Notable births on July 15

- **2008** — **Iain Armitage** — American actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Armitage))
- **2005** — **JuJu Watkins** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuJu_Watkins))
- **1999** — **Mohamed Sobhy** — Egyptian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Sobhy_(footballer%2C_born_1999)))
- **1998** — **Noah Gragson** — American racing driver ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Gragson))
- **1997** — **Jil Teichmann** — Swiss tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jil_Teichmann))
- **1996** — **Vivianne Miedema** — Dutch football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivianne_Miedema))
- **1993** — **Håvard Nielsen** — Norwegian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5vard_Nielsen))
- **1993** — **Harrison Rhodes** — American racing driver ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Rhodes))
- **1993** — **Masataka Yoshida** — Japanese baseball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masataka_Yoshida))
- **1992** — **Tobias Harris** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Harris))

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## Notable deaths on July 15

- **2021** — **Peter R. de Vries** — Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (born 1956) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_R._de_Vries))
- **2017** — **Martin Landau** — American film and television actor (born 1928) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Landau))
- **2015** — **Masahiko Aoki** — Japanese-American economist and academic (born 1938) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiko_Aoki))
- **2015** — **Wan Li** — Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1916) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Li))
- **2015** — **Aubrey Morris** — British actor (born 1926) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Morris))
- **2015** — **Dave Somerville** — Canadian singer (born 1933) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Somerville))
- **2014** — **Óscar Acosta** — Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (born 1933) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Acosta))
- **2014** — **James MacGregor Burns** — American historian, political scientist, and author (born 1918) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_MacGregor_Burns))
- **2014** — **Edward Perl** — American neuroscientist and academic (born 1926) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Perl))
- **2014** — **Robert A. Roe** — American soldier and politician (born 1924) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Roe))

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