About August 15
August 15, 2025 is the 227th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 186 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 15
- 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
- 1483 –Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
- 1511 –Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
- 1517 –Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
- 1869 –The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
- 1907 –Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, “Priest-Apostolic” to America and the West Indies.
- 1914 –The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
- 1939 –13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.
- 1948 –The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
- 1952 –A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
- 1954 –Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
- 1961 –Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- 1971 –Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1973 –Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
- 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.
- 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.
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