About July 15
July 15, 2020 is the 197th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 212 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 15
- 1099 –First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
- 1149 –The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
- 1240 –Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
- 1381 –John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
- 1789 –Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
- 1815 –Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
- 1870 –Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 1918 –World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
- 1927 –Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 1954 –First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
- 1955 –Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- 1959 –The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
- 1974 –In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
- 1975 –Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
- 1980 –A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing US$160 million in damage.
- 1983 –A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
- 1997 –In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
- 2002 –Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- 2003 –AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
- 2009 –Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes in northwestern Iran, killing all 153 aboard.
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