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This day in history: 15 July

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430 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 15 July.
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2018: France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Anne-Marie Javouhey

Christian feast day: Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden

Christian feast day: Blessed Inácio de Azevedo

Christian feast day: Bonaventure

Christian feast day: Ceslaus

Christian feast day: Dispersion of the Apostles (formerly by the Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Donald of Ogilvy

Christian feast day: Edith of Polesworth

Christian feast day: July 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Plechelm

Christian feast day: Quriaqos and Julietta (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox)

Events

2018France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

2016Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.

2014A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.

2012South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.

2009Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.

2009Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.

2006Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.

2003AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

2002"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.

2002The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.

1998Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.

1996A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

1983An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.

1983Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective releases of the Famicom and SG-1000 in Japan.

1979U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".

1975Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family

1974In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing Makarios III and installing Nikos Sampson as the president of Cyprus.

1971The United Red Army is founded in Japan.

1966Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.

1955Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.

1954The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight.

1946The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.

1942The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.

1927Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.

1922The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.

1920Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.

1918World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.

1916In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

1910In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.

1888The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

1870Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.

1870Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

1862American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself.

1849The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.

1840The Great Powers of Europe conclude the convention of London in order to stabilise the Near East.

1838Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.

1834The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.

1823A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.

1815Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.

1806Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.

Born on this day

2008Iain Armitage, American actor

2005JuJu Watkins, American basketball player

1999Mohamed Sobhy, Egyptian footballer

1998Noah Gragson, American racing driver

1997Anthony Cirelli, Canadian ice hockey player

1997Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player

1996Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player

1994Mason Dye, American actor

1993Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver

1993Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer

1993Masataka Yoshida, Japanese baseball player

1992Porter Robinson, American DJ and singer-songwriter

1992Tobias Harris, American basketball player

1992Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter

1991Danilo, Brazilian footballer

1991Derrick Favors, American basketball player

1991Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer

1991Nuria Párrizas Díaz, Spanish tennis player

1990Damian Lillard, American basketball player

1990Olly Alexander, English singer and actor

1990Tyler Young, American racing driver

1990Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player

1989Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player

1989Anthony Randolph, American basketball player

1989Tristan Wilds, American actor and singer-songwriter

1988Aimee Carrero, American actress

1986Kareem Rahma, Egyptian-American comedian, artist, and media entrepreneur

1986Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player

1986Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, American actor

1984Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer

1984Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, Slovak skier

1983Heath Slater, American wrestler

1983Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver

1983Salvatore Iovino, American racing driver

1982Aída Yéspica, Venezuelan model and actress

1982Julien Canal, French racing driver

1982Neemia Tialata, New Zealand rugby player

1981Alou Diarra, French footballer

1981Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer

1981Petros Klampanis, Greek bassist and composer

Died on this day

2021Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (born 1956)

2017Martin Landau, American film and television actor (born 1928)

2015Aubrey Morris, British actor (born 1926)

2015Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (born 1933)

2015Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (born 1938)

2015Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1916)

2014Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (born 1926)

2014James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (born 1918)

2014Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (born 1933)

2014Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (born 1924)

2013Earl Gros, American football player (born 1940)

2013Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (born 1944)

2013John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (born 1962)

2013Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (born 1986)

2013Ninos Aho, Syrian-American poet and activist (born 1945)

2013Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (born 1924)

2013Tom Greenwell, American lawyer and judge (born 1956)

2012Boris Cebotari, Moldovan footballer (born 1975)

2012Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (born 1917)

2012David Fraser, English general (born 1920)

2012Grant Feasel, American football player (born 1960)

2012Tsilla Chelton, Israeli-French actress (born 1919)

2012Yoichi Takabayashi, Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1931)

2011Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner and politician (born 1928)

2011Googie Withers, British-Australian actress (born 1917)

2010James E. Akins, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (born 1926)

2008György Kolonics, Hungarian canoe racer (born 1972)

2006Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (born 1942)

2006Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (born 1937)

2003Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (born 1904)

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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

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