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The 15t o August is the 227t day o the year (228t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 138 days bidin.
Events
1947 : Banner o Indie 1948 : Creation o the Republic o Korea (in blue )1960 : Banner o the Republic o the Congo 1057 - Macbeth, Keeng o Scotland is kilt in battle.1248 - The foondation stane o Cologne Cathedral is laid.1271 - King Philip III o Fraunce is crouned in Reims .1483 - Sistine Chaipel consecratit bi Pape Sixtus IV .1519 - Panama Ceety is foondit.1537 - Asuncion , current caipital o Paraguay , is foondit.1540 - The ceety o Arequipa in present-day Peru is foondit.1824 - Freed African slaves foond Liberie .1869 - Japan 's Meiji govrenment creates 7 new ministries.1914 - Openin o the Panama Canal .1945 - Warld War II : Surrender o Japan tae the Allies.1945 - Warld War II : The Allies liberate Korea frae Japan .1947 - Indie becomes independent o the Unitit Kinrick .1948 - The Republic o Korea is creatit.1950 - Assam , in northeastren Indie , is strack bi a major yirdquauk .1960 - The Republic o the Congo becomes independent o Fraunce .1963 - Henry John Burnett becomes the last person tae be hanged in Scotland .1969 - Stairt o the Woodstock muisic festival in the state o New York .1971 - Bahrain declares unthirldom.1975 - Assassination o Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , leader o Bangladesh .1989 - F. W. de Klerk becomes State Preses o Sooth Africae .1998 - The Real IRA carries oot the Omagh bombin in Northren Ireland , killin 29 fowk.2007 - A yirdquauk in Peru kills ower 400 fowk.2008 - Fernando Lugo becomes Preses o Paraguay .2013 - Horacio Cartes becomes Preses o Paraguay .2013 - The discovery o a previously-unkent mammal species in Sooth Americae is propaled - the Olinguito .2015 - Kezia Dugdale becomes leader o the Scots Labour Pairty .2018 - A bomb attack on an education centre in Kabul , Afghanistan , kills 34 fowk; on the semme day, an attack in the kintra's Baghlan province kills 9 polismen an 35 sodgers.
Births
Sir Walter Scott Jennifer Lawrence 1575 - Diego, Prince o Asturies (d. 1582 )1736 - Alexander Runciman , Scots penter (d. 1785 )1769 - Napoleon , Emperor o Fraunce (d. 1821 )1771 - Sir Walter Scott , Scots author (d. 1832 )1856 - Keir Hardie , Scots poleetical activist (d. 1915 )1872 - Sri Aurobindo , Indie philosopher an guru (d. 1950 )1873 - Jack White , Scots gowfer (d. 1949 )1892 - Louis de Broglie , French pheesicist (d. 1987 )1896 - Gerty Cori , Czech-American biochemist (d. 1957 )1912 - Julia Child , American chef, author an telly personality (d. 2004 )1917 - Jack Lynch , Erse Taoiseach (d. 1999 )1925 - Aldo Ciccolini , Italian-French pianist (d. 2015 )1925 - Mike Connors , American actor (d. 2017 )1931 - Richard F. Heck , American chemist (d. 2015 )1950 - Anne, Princess Ryal 1954 - Stieg Larsson , Swadish writer (d. 2004 )1968 - Debra Messing , American actress1972 - Ben Affleck , American actor an director1975 - Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi , Japanese fitbawer1976 - Abiy Ahmed , Ethiopie politeecian, Prime meenister o Ethiopie 1990 - Jennifer Lawrence , American actress1993 - Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain , Inglis fitbawer
Daiths
1057 : Macbeth, Keeng o Scotland 1057 - Macbeth, Keeng o Scotland 1118 - Alexios I Komnenos , Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048 )1621 - John Barclay , Scots writer, satirist an poet (b. 1582 )1900 - John Anderson , Scots zoologist (b. 1833 )1907 - John Kerr , Scots pheesicist (b. 1824 )1935 - Paul Signac , French penter (b. 1863 )1936 - Grazia Deledda , Italian writer (b. 1871 )1962 - Bob McIntyre , Scots motorcycle racer (b. 1928 )1963 - Henry John Burnett , last person tae be hanged in Scotland (b. 1942 )1967 - René Magritte , Belgian airtist (b. 1898 )1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , Bangladeshi statesman (b. 1920 )2014 - Jan Ekier , Pols pianist an componer (b. 1913 )2015 - Julian Bond , American social activist (b. 1940 )2020 - Stuart Christie , Scots anarchist an writer (b. 1946 )
Halidays
Banner o Indie on the Red Fort in Delhi
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