Today
in History
15 July
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill, 1639, etching, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection 1943.3.9117
Napoleon Bonaparte
William Bonney "Billy the Kid"
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| 1099 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Jerusalem |
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| 1205 Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude & subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus | ||
| 1307 Duke Henrik van Karinthin chosen king of Bohemia | ||
| 1410 Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland | ||
| 1500 Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion | ||
| 1500 Family Baglione massacre | ||
| 1501 Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon | ||
| 1524 Emperor Karel I bans German national synode | ||
| 1538 Peace talks between Karel & King Fran‡ois I | ||
| 1573 Inigo Jones, London, architect (restored St Paul's Cathedral) was born | ||
| 1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Leiden Netherlands, painter (Night Watch) was born | ||
| 1662 England's King Charles II charters Royal Society in London | ||
| 1755 French ambassador recalled from London | Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill, 1639, etching, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection 1943.3.9117 |
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| 1779 US troops under General A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY | ||
| 1787 Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes | ||
| 1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem | ||
| 1808 French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples | ||
| 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte captured | ||
| 1815 Napoleon surrendered and is later exiled on St Helena | ||
| 1840 England, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance | ||
| 1856 Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony | ||
| 1857 During the Indian Mutiny, a massacre took place at Cawnpore, a frontier station. British troops and families were killed and their bodies thrown into a well. | ||
| 1869 Margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries. | ||
| 1870 Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada | ||
| 1881 William Bonney, known as "Billy The Kid," was shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico while trying to escape. Doubts surfaced about the identity of the person shot, and one story has it the real outlaw changed his name to Bushy Bill Roberts and survived until 1950. | ||
| 1888 Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years | ||
| 1893 Commodore Perry arrives in Japan | ||
| 1906 Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam |
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| 1918 The second Battle of the Marne started when Gen. Ludendorff launched an all-out offensive in a last-ditch attempt to overwhelm the allies. | ||
| 1923 Italian parliament accepts new constitution | ||
| 1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world | ||
| 1937 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China | ||
| 1940 Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam | ||
| 1941 Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin) | ||
| 1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz | ||
| 1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb | ||
| 1945 Muroran, a steel center in Japan, was shelled by the U.S. Third Fleet in the closing stages of World War II. | ||
| 1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British Crown | Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| 1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain | ||
| 1948 President Truman nominated for another term (Phila) | ||
| 1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins | ||
| 1953 John Christie, murderer of at least six women at Ten Rillington Place in London, was hanged. | ||
| 1957 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die | ||
| 1958 US marines deployed in Lebanon | ||
| 1960 France agreed to grant independence to Gabon | ||
| 1961 Spain accept equal rights for men & women | ||
| 1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League | ||
| 1964 Anastas Mikoyan succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as president of the Soviet Union. |
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| 1965 The Mariner IV spacecraft launched in November 1964 sent back the first close-up pictures of Mars. | ||
| 1968 The first direct air services between the United States and the Soviet Union began between New York and Moscow, operated by Aeroflot and Pan American. | ||
| 1973 Paul Getty III kidnapped | ||
| 1974 In Cyprus, President Makarios was overthrown in a coup led by Greek officers in the National Guard. Nikos Sampson, a former EOKA leader, was appointed president. | ||
| 1983 Six people died and 48 were injured when Armenian terrorists bombed a Turkish Airlines desk at Orly Airport in Paris. | ||
| 1991 Western troops completed their pullout from Kurdish refugee havens in northern Iraq. | ||
| 1994 Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary | ||
| 1994 European Union leaders picked Luxembourg Prime Minister Jacques Santer to head the European Commission, replacing Jacques Delors. | ||
| 1995 Jews take Jerusalem | William Bonney "Billy the Kid" |
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| 1996 Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers | ||
| 1996 Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake | ||
| 1997 Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot and killed outside his mansion in Miami Beach. | ||
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