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, 28,683,360 minutes 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
1240 –
Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
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.
1920 –
The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
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.
1979 –
U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called “malaise” speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation” but in which he never uses the word malaise
1985 –
The Nintendo Entertainment System, the best-selling game console of its time, is released in Japan.
Who were born on July 15?
1273 –
Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
1704 –
August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
1871 –
Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
1928 –
Carl Woese, American microbiologist
1934 –
Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
1939 –
Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese politician
1960 –
Kim Alexis, American supermodel and actress
1980 –
Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
1981 –
Alou Diarra, French footballer
1984 –
Vice Cooler, American singer-songwriter (Hawnay Troof, Xbxrx)
Who died on July 15?
1571 –
Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1750 –
Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1828 –
Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1890 –
Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
1942 –
Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (b. 1910)
1953 –
Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian Christian Bishop, founder of the Order of the Imitation of Christ (b. 1882)
1958 –
Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
1965 –
Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
2003 –
Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
2008 –
György Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist (b. 1972)
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