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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.
- 1948 –The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
- 1954 –Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
- 1963 –Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1984 –The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
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