About August 15
August 15, 2023 is the 227th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 179 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.
- 927 –The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
- 1261 –Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
- 1281 –Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a “divine wind” for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
- 1511 –Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
- 1537 –Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
- 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.
- 1863 –The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
- 1914 –The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
- 1920 –Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula.
- 1939 –13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.
- 1947 –Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan in Karachi.
- 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.
- 1975 –Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
- 1975 –Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
- 1984 –The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
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