15 July
Notable Births
Iain Armitage
b. 2008
American actor (born 2008)
JuJu Watkins
b. 2005
American basketball player (born 2005)
Mohamed Sobhy (footballer, born 1999)
b. 1999
Egyptian footballer
Noah Gragson
b. 1998
American racing driver (born 1998)
Jil Teichmann
b. 1997
Swiss tennis player (born 1997)
Vivianne Miedema
b. 1996
Dutch footballer (born 1996)
Håvard Nielsen
b. 1993
Norwegian footballer (born 1993)
Harrison Rhodes
b. 1993
American racing driver (born 1993)
Masataka Yoshida
b. 1993
Japanese baseball player (born 1993)
Tobias Harris
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Wayde van Niekerk
b. 1992
South African sprinter (born 1992)
Danilo (footballer, born July 1991)
b. 1991
Brazilian footballer
Derrick Favors
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Evgeny Tishchenko
b. 1991
Russian boxer
Nuria Párrizas Díaz
b. 1991
Spanish tennis player (born 1991)
Olly Alexander
b. 1990
English singer and actor (born 1990)
Zach Bogosian
b. 1990
American ice hockey player (born 1990)
Brenda Milner
b. 1918
British-Canadian neuroscientist and neuropsychologist (born 1918)
Wharton Esherick
b. 1887
American sculptor, woodworker (1887–1970)
Inigo Jones
b. 1573
English architect (1573–1652)
Notable Deaths
Peter R. de Vries
d. 2021
Dutch investigative journalist and reporter (1956–2021)
Martin Landau
d. 2017
American actor (1928–2017)
Wan Li
d. 2015
Chinese Communist Party leader (1916–2015)
Aubrey Morris
d. 2015
British actor (1926–2015)
Óscar Acosta
d. 2014
Honduran writer, poet, critic, politician and diplomat
Edward Perl
d. 2014
American neuroscientist
Robert A. Roe
d. 2014
American politician (1924–2014)
Meskerem Legesse
d. 2013
Ethiopian runner
John T. Riedl
d. 2013
American computer scientist
Tsilla Chelton
d. 2012
French actress (1919–2012)
Celeste Holm
d. 2012
American stage, film and television actress (1917–2012)
Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler
d. 2011
German landowner, business manager and politician (1928–2011)
Googie Withers
d. 2011
British actress and entertainer (1917–2011)
György Kolonics
d. 2008
Hungarian canoeist (1972–2008)
Robert H. Brooks
d. 2006
American businessman
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
d. 2006
Iranian archaeologist (1942–2006)
Roberto Bolaño
d. 2003
Chilean writer (1953–2003)
Elisabeth Welch
d. 2003
American singer, actress, and entertainer (1904–2003)
Louis Quilico
d. 2000
Canadian opera singer (1925–2000)
Rudolf I of Germany
d. 1291
King of Germany from 1273 to 1291
On This Day in History
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2018
France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.
France national football team
2016
Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
Turkish Armed Forces
2014
A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
2014 Moscow Metro derailment
2012
South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
Psy
2009
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908
2009
Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.
Space Shuttle program
2006
Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
X (social network)
2003
AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
WarnerMedia
2002
"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
Taliban
2002
The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.
Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan
1998
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
Sri Lankan civil war
1996
A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
Belgian Air Force
1983
An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
1983 Orly Airport attack
1983
Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective releases of the Famicom and SG-1000 in Japan.
Nintendo
1979
U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
President of the United States
1975
Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
Space Race
1975
Aeroflot Flight E-15 crashes on approach to Batumi International Airport, killing 40.
Aeroflot Flight E-15
1974
In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing Makarios III and installing Nikos Sampson as the president of Cyprus.
Nicosia
1971
The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
United Red Army
1966
Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
Vietnam War