July 15

Thursday 15, 2004:

The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party.

Monday 15, 2002:

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Saturday 15, 1995:

Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com

Sunday 15, 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."

Monday 15, 1918:

The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.