On This Day: 15 July

15 July in Indian history

• 1998Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.India

15 July in world history

• 2018Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their defeat to France.
• 2016The Peace at Home Council, a faction of the Turkish Armed Forces, staged a coup d'état attempt against the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
• 2009A .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw 7.8 earthquake struck a remote region of Fiordland, New Zealand, the country's largest earthquake magnitude since the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
• 2009Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.
• 2002"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
• 1983Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000, was released in Japan.
• 1975Space 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.
• 1942The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
• 1920Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
• 1870Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
• 1862American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself.
• 1838Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
• 1815Aboard HMS Bellerophon, French emperor Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, concluding the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1806Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
• 1799French soldiers at Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid, uncovered the Rosetta Stone, which was essential in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts.
• 1410The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald, the decisive engagement of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
• 1240Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.

Born on 15 July

• 1956Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theoristIndia
• 1933M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author and screenwriter (died 2024)India
• 1919Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (died 2012)
• 1903K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician (died 1975)India
• 1638Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1693)
• 1573Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (died 1652)

Died on 15 July

• 2000Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (born 1925)
• 1953Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (born 1882)India
• 1933Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (born 1865)
• 1291Rudolf I of Germany (born 1218)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 15 July in history?

2018: Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their defeat to France. 2016: The Peace at Home Council, a faction of the Turkish Armed Forces, staged a coup d'état attempt against the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 2009: A .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw 7.8 earthquake struck a remote region of Fiordland, New Zealand, the country's largest earthquake magnitude since the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. 2009: Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.

What happened on 15 July in Indian history?

1998: Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.

Which famous people were born on 15 July?

Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist (1956); M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author and screenwriter (died 2024) (1933); Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (died 2012) (1919); K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician (died 1975) (1903).

Which day is observed on 15 July?

EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis (European Union, worldwide); Feast of Saint Rosalia (Palermo, Sicily); Meänmaa Flag Day (Meänmaa); Statehood Day (Ukraine).