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July 15

July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1099 - Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege during First Crusade.
• 1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton
• 1381 - John Ball, veteran of Peasants' Revolt, executed in the presence of Richard II of England
• 1410 - Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris), power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians, the greatest battle of the Middle Ages
• 1685 - In England, the Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, after he was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemore.
• 1789 - Marquis de la Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
• 1799 - In the Egyptian village of Rosette, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
• 1806 - Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
• 1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon
• 1862 - American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• 1870 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
• 1916 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
• 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
• 1929 - First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
• 1931 - Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
• 1944 - World War II: Americans take Saipan
• 1953 - John Reginald Christie executed.
• 1954 - First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
• 1958 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
• 1974 - In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'etat, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
• 1975 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
• 1994 - Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians caught with a corked bat.
• 1996 - MSNBC cable-DBS channel launched
• 1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
• 2002 - So-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
• 2002 - Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
• 2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation.

Births

• 1573 - Inigo Jones, architect (d. 1652)
• 1606 - Rembrandt, artist (d. 1669)
• 1779 - Clement Moore, author, poet (d. 1863)
• 1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist, author Bulfinch's Mythology (d. 1796)
• 1808 - Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, archbishop (d. 1892)
• 1812 - James Hope-Scott, lawyer (d. 1873)
• 1848 - Vilfredo Pareto, economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
• 1850 - Mother Cabrini, Roman Catholic saint (d. 1917)
• 1865 - Alfred Charles William Northcliffe, newspaper publisher
• 1870 - Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
• 1871 - Kunikida Doppo, writer (d. 1908)
• 1892 - Walter Benjamin, literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
• 1899 - Sean F. Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971)
• 1902 - Jean Ray, politician, President of the European Commission 1967-1970 (d. 1983)
• 1911 - Edward Shackleton, explorer (d. 1994)
• 1914 - Hammond Innes, writer (d. 1998)
• 1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning physicist (d. 2003)
• 1919 - Iris Murdoch, writer (d. 1999)
• 1923 - Philip Carey, actor
• 1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian dictator (d. 2003)
• 1927 - Nan Clow Martin, actress
• 1928 - Carl Woese, microbiologist
• 1930 - Jacques Derrida, philosopher
• 1930 - Stephen Smale, mathematician who broke the dimension barrier
• 1931 - Clive Cussler, author
• 1934 - Harrison Birtwistle, composer
• 1935 - Diahann Carroll, actress
• 1942 - Mil Mascaras, former professional wrestler
• 1944 - Millie Jackson, R&B singer
• 1945 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician
• 1946 - Linda Ronstadt, singer
• 1947 - Camilla Parker Bowles, British royal mistress
• 1949 - Carl Bildt, politician
• 1949 - Trevor Horn, musician
• 1951 - Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler, former
• 1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian politician
• 1953 - John Denham, British politician
• 1956 - Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division
• 1956 - Barry Melrose, hockey player, coach, commentator
• 1956 - Marky Ramone, member of The Ramones
• 1961 - Forest Whitaker, actor
• 1966 - Irène Jacob, actress
• 1968 - Eddie Griffin, actor
• 1970 - Chi Cheng, musician
• 1973 - Brian Austin Green, actor
• 1975 - Kyla Brettle, documentary maker

Deaths

• 518 - Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor
• 1085 - Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer
• 1291 - Rudolph I of Germany
• 1381 - John Ball
• 1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
• 1767 - Michael Bruce, poet
• 1782 - Farinelli, castratto
• 1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor
• 1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, poet
• 1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel, historian
• 1857 - Carl Czerny, composer
• 1890 - Gottfried Keller, poet
• 1904 - Anton Chekhov, playwright
• 1929 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, dramatist
• 1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, economist
• 1933 - Freddie Keppard, musician (b. 1890)
• 1940 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, giant: 8 feet, 11-1/10 inches tall 439 pounds.
• 1947 - Walter Donaldson, songwriter
• 1948 - John J. Pershing, U.S. general
• 1957 - James M. Cox, U.S. politician
• 1959 - Billie Holiday, jazz and blues singer
• 1960 - Lawrence Tibbett, actor
• 1961 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician
• 1965 - Francis Cherry, U.S. politician
• 1971 - Bill Thompson, actor (Lady and the Tramp, The Aristocats, et al.)
• 1992 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
• 1997 - Gianni Versace, fashion designer
• 2003 - Adi Preißler, German soccer player
• 2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilenian poet

Holidays and observances

• Botswana - President's Day
• Brunei - Birthday of the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam
• Palermo, Sicily - Festival of Santa Rosalia
• Japan - Third day of Obon feast period
• Saint Swithun's feast day (Anglican Church)
• Saint Vladimir the Great's day (Eastern Orthodox; Roman Catholic)
• Confuflux (Discordianism)

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