About August 15
August 15, 2024 is the 228th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 167 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 15
- 1057 –King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
- 1430 –Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
- 1517 –Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
- 1519 –Panama City, Panama, is founded.
- 1537 –Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
- 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 First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
- 1914 –The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
- 1920 –Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula.
- 1935 –Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.
- 1945 –World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
- 1995 –In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
- 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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