What are the important events that happened on July 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 15 is the 197th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 2, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 478,056 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontaheptagon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac 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 198 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,224 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 15 Historical Events
1099 –
First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1207 –
King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
1685 –
Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
1799 –
The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.
1838 –
Ralph 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.
1870 –
Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870 –
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 North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
1955 –
Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1966 –
Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
1974 –
In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
Who were born on July 15?
1737 –
Princess Louise Marie of France, daughter of King Louis XV of France (d. 1787)
1812 –
James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
1904 –
Rudolf Arnheim, German-born American author and psychologist (d. 2007)
1906 –
Rudolf Uhlenhaut, England-born German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989)
1914 –
Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
1922 –
Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1950 –
Arianna Huffington, Greek-born American newspaper columnist
1961 –
Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
1974 –
Chot Ulep, Filipino bassist and songwriter
1989 –
Tristan Wilds, American actor
Who died on July 15?
1085 –
Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer (b. c. 1015)
1828 –
Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1932 –
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (b. 1873)
1933 –
Freddie Keppard, American Jazz cornetist (b. 1890)
1946 –
Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1947 –
Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1992 –
Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist (b. 1960)
1993 –
Bobby Kent, American murder victim (b. 1973)
2003 –
Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
2006 –
Robert H. Brooks, American founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)
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