About August 15
August 15, 2024 is the 228th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 167 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 15
- 293 BC –The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is dedicated.
- 982 –Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
- 1517 –Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
- 1534 –Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
- 1599 –Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
- 1935 –Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
- 1940 –An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbour during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
- 1941 –Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
- 1942 –World War II: Operation Pedestal – The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island’s defenses.
- 1954 –Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
- 1960 –Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
- 1961 –Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- 1963 –Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
- 1965 –The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.
- 1971 –Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1971 –President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
- 1973 –Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
- 1975 –Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
- 1995 –In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
- 2007 –An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
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