July 15

Friday 15, 2005:

Disneyland "re-launches" Space Mountain in Anaheim, California.

Thursday 15, 2004:

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

Tuesday 15, 2003:

AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

Monday 15, 2002:

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

Thursday 15, 1999:

Safeco Field opens in Seattle, Washington.

Tuesday 15, 1997:

In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.

Monday 15, 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.

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

Friday 15, 1994:

Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians caught with a corked bat.

Wednesday 15, 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.

Saturday 15, 1989:

Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their sixth album, No Control.

Friday 15, 1988:

Die Hard opens in theaters, starring Bruce Willis

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."

Tuesday 15, 1975:

1977 - Griffith N.S.W, Anti - Drug campainer Donald Mackay dissapers presumed murded.

Monday 15, 1974:

In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.

Tuesday 15, 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.

Thursday 15, 1954:

First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.

Wednesday 15, 1953:

John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.

Sunday 15, 1945:

President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.

Wednesday 15, 1931:

Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.

Monday 15, 1929:

First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.

Friday 15, 1927:

Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

Thursday 15, 1926:

BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.

Monday 15, 1918:

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

Saturday 15, 1916:

In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

Monday 15, 1895:

Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record cricket innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.

Friday 15, 1870:

Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.

Tuesday 15, 1862:

American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Saturday 15, 1815:

Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon

Tuesday 15, 1806:

Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.

Monday 15, 1799:

Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.

Wednesday 15, 1789:

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.

Sunday 15, 1685:

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.

Sunday 15, 1410:

Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris): power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians

Sunday 15, 1381:

John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.

Sunday 15, 1207:

John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton

Saturday 15, 1099:

First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.

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