July 15

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July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1901 2000

  • 1916 In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
  • 1918 World War I: Second Battle of the Marne – The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
  • 1922 The Japanese Communist Party is created in Japan.
  • 1926 BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.
  • 1927 Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • 1929 First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
  • 1931 Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
  • 1945 US President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.
  • 1953 John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.
  • 1954 First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
  • 1955 Eighteen Nobel Prize winners sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by 34 others.
  • 1958 In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
  • 1965 The Mariner 4 sends the first close-up pictures of a planet other than Earth, when it sends pictures from Mars.
  • 1974 In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
  • 1974 Christine Chubbock, a TV host in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide during the taping of her show live on air.
  • 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.–Soviet link-up in space.
  • 1977 Griffith N.S.W, Anti – Drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears presumed murdered.
  • 1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "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."
  • 1988 Die Hard opens in theaters, starring Bruce Willis
  • 1989 Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their sixth album, No Control.
  • 1992 A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum and several other local businesses in the process. The block was rebuilt and re-opened in 1995.
  • 1994 Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians caught with a corked bat.
  • 1995 Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com
  • 1996 MSNBC cable-DBS channel launched
  • 1996 A Royal Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. Thirty-two people die in the flames, two people die of their injuries, and Seven people sustain severe burns.
  • 1997 In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
  • 1999 Safeco Field opens in Seattle, Washington.
  • 1999 The first flights from the United Kingdom to Argentina since the Falklands War occur.

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