Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 15
This is a list of selected August 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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SS Kentuckian passing through the Panama Canal
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in North Korea | {{globalize}} |
| Flooding of the Nile begins in Egypt | refimprove, stubby |
| Feast of the Dormition | refimprove |
| 293 BC – The oldest known temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated. | need to confirm date |
| 778 – A Frankish army led by Roland was defeated by the Basques at Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain. | needs more footnotes |
| 1281 – Mongol invasions of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan. | needs copyediting; Kamikaze: refimprove; Battle: needs more footnotes |
| 1695 – Nine Years' War: French forces ended their three-day bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins. | needs more footnotes |
| 1843 – Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, today the most popular amusement park in Scandinavia, opened. | refimprove section |
| 1969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York began. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1907 – Jamaican American Raphael Morgan was ordained as the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America.
- 1914 – The Panama Canal opened to traffic, providing a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Isthmus of Panama.
- 1944 – World War II: Allied forces began their invasion of southern France.
- 1945 – The Gyokuon-hōsō was broadcast in Japan, announcing the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army and naval forces.
- 1948 – The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee as its first president.
- 1947 – The British Raj was partitioned into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.
- 1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh, and most of his family were assassinated in a military coup.
- 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University's Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence project, received a strong radio signal from deep space that became known as the "Wow! signal".
- 1998 – A car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army killed 29 people and injured approximately 220 others in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
- 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of Peru devastated Ica and various nearby regions.
Notes
- Siege of Detroit appears on August 16, so Battle of Fort Dearborn should not appear in the same year
- 1868 Arica earthquake appears on August 13, so 2007 earthquake should not appear in the same year.
August 15: Victory over Japan Day; Feast of the Assumption in Christianity; Independence Day in the Congo (1960) and India (1947); Liberation Day in South Korea (1945)
- 718 – Forces of the Umayyad Caliphate abandoned their year-long siege of Constantinople, causing the caliphate to give up its goal of conquering the Byzantine Empire.
- 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city of Malacca, giving Portugal control over the Strait of Malacca, through which all sea-going trade between China and India was concentrated.
- 1812 – War of 1812: Potawatomi warriors destroyed the United States Army's Fort Dearborn (pictured) in what is now Chicago, Illinois, and captured the survivors.
- 1942 – World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta, as part of an operation to deliver much needed supplies during the Siege of Malta.
- 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.