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Today in History ~ August 15
Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo.
Liberation ( National) Day, celebrated in South Korea.
Corsica today celebrates the birth of one of its most famous sons Napoleon Bonaparte I.
Events0778 - Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great
1057 - At the Battle of Lumphanan, King Macbeth of Scotland was slain by Malcolm Canmore, whose father, King Duncan I, was murdered by Macbeth seventeen years earlier. [H]
1456 - The Gutenberg Bible was dated by hand.
1457 - Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed
1519 - Panama City founded
1534 - In Paris, France, Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned priest, founded the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic missionary organization. The founding members--Ignatius and six of his students--took vows of poverty and chastity
1535 - Asuncion, Paraguay founded
1548 - Mary, queen of Scotland arrives in France
1549 - Portuguese Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier lands in Kagoshima Japan
1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
1748 - United Lutheran Church of US organized
1785 - French cardinal De Rohan arrested
1795 - Franz Joseph Haydn leaves England for last time
1824 - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1843 - National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
1843 - Tivoli Gardens, the world-famous garden and amusement park, opened in downtown Copenhagen.
1848 - M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1861 - Union General Robert Anderson is named commander of the Department of the Kentucky. [H]
1861 - Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MI
1864 - Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1865 - Sir Joseph Lister discovered the antiseptic process
1870 - Transcontinental Railway completed in Colorado
1876 - US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1906 - 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1911 - Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
1914 - German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured
1914 - Panama Canal an American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was inaugurated with the passage of the American vessel Ancon. [H]
1915 - Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
1918 - Russia severs diplomatic ties with US
1923 - Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
1931 - Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
1934 - Bathysphere Explorers Charles William Beebe and Otis Barton were lowered in a spherical chamber called the "Bathysphere" to more than half a mile below the ocean's surface off the Bermuda Islands. Never before had humans explored the ocean realms at such depth.
1935 - American humorist Will Rogers and famous aviator Wiley Post were killed in an airplane accident near Point Barrow, Alaska.
1939 - "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
1940 - Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
1941 - Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
1943 - Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
1944 - Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1945 - A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II
1945 - Riot in San Francisco celebrating end of World War II.
1945 - South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
1945 - US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
1945 - VJ Day was proclaimed by the Allies, a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
1947 - The Indian Independence Bill, which carved the independent nations of India and Pakistan out of the former Mogul Empire, came into force at the stroke of midnight. The long-awaited agreement ended two hundred years of British rule,
1948 - Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
1950 - Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
1954 - Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay
1957 - David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
1960 - Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
1961 - East German workers began building the Berlin Wall. [H]
1962 - Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1964 - Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
1965 - Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
1968 - Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York. (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm
1971 - President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
1974 - Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1974 - South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
1976 - Former SS Colonel Herbert Kappler dramatically escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1985 - Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
1985 -, South African President P.W. Botha, rejecting Western pleas to abolish apartheid, declared, "I am not prepared to lead white South Africans and other minority groups on a road to abdication and suicide."
1987 - More than 13.5 inches of rain drenched the Chicago area, causing more than $100 million in damage.
1988 - NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1991 - 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
1991 - The U.N. Security Council, by a vote of 13-1, authorized Iraq to export $1.6 billion worth of oil in a tightly controlled sale to pay for desperately needed food and medicine.
1991 - The congressional budget office disclosed that the federal deficit would rise to a record $362 billion.
1992 [ Four people were killed and as many as 20 wounded in a shooting spree at a Caribbean nightclub near Miami.
1992 - Vietnam blamed Hollywood for creating the "myth" that U.S. servicemen are being held in Indochina.
1993 - About 400 Palestinian men who'd been deported from Israel to southern Lebanon in 1992 agreed to Israel's terms for their return.
1993 - Pope John Paul II conducted mass for up to 400,000 people at the World Youth Day festival south of Denver.
1994 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," was jailed in France after being captured in Sudan.
1995 - The Justice Department agreed to pay $3.1 million to white separatist Randall Weaver, whose wife and teenage son were killed by FBI sharpshooters during a standoff at his Idaho cabin three years earlier.
1996 - Bob Dole claimed the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in San Diego, offering himself as the "bridge to a time of tranquility."
1996 - Frederick Martin Davidson, a graduate student at San Diego State University, shot and killed three engineering professors (Davidson was later sentenced to three life terms in prison).
1997 - The Justice Department decided against prosecuting senior FBI officials in connection with an alleged cover-up that followed the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho.
1998 - 29 people were killed by a car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility.
1998 - Pakistan handed over to Kenya a suspect who reportedly confessed to involvement in the bombing of the U-S Embassy in Nairobi eight days earlier.
2000 - Democrats stirred memories of President John F. Kennedy at their national convention in Los Angeles, with Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, taking a rare turn in the spotlight and beckoning delegates to turn the New Frontier into a "timeless call" that would send Al Gore to the White House.
2000 - A group of 100 separated family members from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century; a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North.
2000 - British Airways joined Air France in grounding its Concorde supersonic jets in the wake of the July 25 crash near Paris that claimed 113 lives.
2001 - A Texas appeals court halted the execution of Napoleon Beazley just hours before he was scheduled to die for a murder he had committed as a teenager. He was executed in May,2002
2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own.
Birthdays Today
1688 - Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (Emperor of France 1804-13, 1814-15)
1771 - Sir Walter Scott (writer: Ivanhoe, The Talisman, The Heart of Midlothian, Rob Roy)
1785 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
1785 - Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
1803 - Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.
1879 - Ethel Barrymore (Blythe) (Academy Award-winning actress: None But the Lonely Heart [1944]; The Farmer's Daughter, Pinky)
1887 - Edna Ferber (Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: So Big [1925]; Show Boat, Cimarron, Saratoga Trunk, Ice Palace, Giant; playwright w/George Kaufman: The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door, The Land is Bright, Bravo)
1888 - T E Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
1890 - Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
1904 - Bil Baird (puppeteer: Bil Baird Puppets: Life with Snarky Parker)
1909 - Hugo Winterhalter (orchestra leader: Canadian Sunset, Rhapsody in Blue)
1912 - Dame Wendy Hiller (Academy Award-winning actress: Separate Tables [1958]; A Man for All Seasons, Making Love, Murder on the Orient Express, Pygmalion, The Elephant Man, Toys in the Attic, David Copperfield)
1912 - Julia Child (McWilliams) (Culinary Institute of America's Hall of Famer: chef, author: The French Chef; TV host: Dinner with Julia)
1922 - Lukas Foss, [Fuchs], Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie)
1923 - Simon Peres, [Persky], premier of Israel
1924 - Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)
1925 - Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian) (actor: Mannix, Tightrope, Today's F.B.I., Sudden Fear)
1925 - Oscar Peterson (jazz pianist: jazz trios, solos, played with all jazz greats, composer; biography: Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing)
1925 - Rose Marie (Curley) (comedienne, actress: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hollywood Squares, The Doris Day Show, My Sister Eileen, Ghetto Blaster, Witchboard, Memory of Us)
1931 - Janice Rule (actress: American Flyers, L.A. Bad, Invitation to a Gunfighter, The Life You Save)
1933 - Bobby Helms (singer: My Special Angel, Jingle Bell Rock, Fraulein)
1935 - Abby Dalton (actress: Falcon Crest, Barney Miller, Hennesey, The Joey Bishop Show)
1941 - Don Rich (country musician, songwriter: Waiting in Your Welfare Line; one of Buck Owens' Buckaroos)
1942 - Peter York (musician: drums: group: Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin', Keep on Runnin', Somebody Help Me)
1944 - Linda Ellerbee (journalist, TV co-host: Our World; Maxwell House commercials)
1945 - Duffy Dyer (baseball)
1945 - Gene Upshaw (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Oakland Raiders guard: Super Bowl II, XI, XIV)
1945 - Jill Haworth (actress: Exodus, In Harm's Way, Tower of Evil)
1950 - Princess Anne (Mountbatten) (British Royalty)
1950 - Tess Harper (Washam) (actress: Tender Mercies, Flashpoint)
Famous deaths
0069 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
1057 - Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain Battle of Lumphanan.
1907 - Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76
1914 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59
1935 - Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska at 36
1935 - Will Rogers, humorist, killed in plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska at 55
1951 - Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69
1988 - Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1992 - Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
1993 - Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia (later special prosecutor of Nazis) , dies at 93
1994 - Shepherd Mead, London England, author (How to Succeed at Business) dies of stroke at 80
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