About August 15
August 15, 2021 is the 227th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 170 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 15
- 293 BC –The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is dedicated.
- 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.
- 1430 –Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
- 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.
- 1517 –Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
- 1537 –Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
- 1540 –Arequipa, Peru, 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.
- 1863 –The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
- 1920 –Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1963 –President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
- 1971 –Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1971 –President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
- 1974 –Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
- 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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