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
- 778 –The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed.
- 927 –The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
- 1040 –King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
- 1261 –Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
- 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.
- 1540 –Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
- 1549 –Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
- 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.
- 1907 –Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, “Priest-Apostolic” to America and the West Indies.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
- 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.
- 2005 –Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
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