About August 15
August 15, 2025 is the 227th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 186 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 15
- 778 –The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed.
- 1185 –The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
- 1248 –The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
- 1517 –Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
- 1519 –Panama City, Panama, is founded.
- 1537 –Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
- 1549 –Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
- 1914 –The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
- 1914 –The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
- 1920 –Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula.
- 1939 –13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
- 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.
- 1947 –India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1954 –Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
- 1960 –Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
- 1963 –President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
- 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.
- 1999 –Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
- 2005 –Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
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