Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 15
This is a list of selected August 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Images
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Woodstock Festival
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The ruins of Brussels
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Saint Ignatius of Loyola
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Saint Ignatius of Loyola
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SS Kentuckian passing through the Panama Canal
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Construction of the Panama Canal
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Fort Dearborn
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The Wow! signal
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Afonso de Albuquerque
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Flooding of the Nile begins in Egypt | refimprove |
| National Liberation Day of Korea in North and South Korea (1945) | Over coverage |
| Feast of the Dormition (Orthodox Christianity) | refimprove |
| 1281 – Mongol invasions of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan was destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan. | needs more footnotes; Kamikaze: refimprove; Battle: needs more footnotes |
| 1534 – In Montmartre, near Paris, Ignatius of Loyola and six others took the vows that led to the establishment of the Society of Jesus. | refimprove section |
| 1695 – Nine Years' War: French forces ended their three-day bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins. | needs more footnotes |
| 1843 – Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, today the most popular amusement park in Scandinavia, opened. | refimprove section |
| 1969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York began. | unreferenced section |
| 1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh, and most of his family were assassinated in a military coup. | Sheik: refimprove ; Assassination: multiple issues |
| 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of Peru devastated Ica and various nearby regions. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 718 – Forces of the Umayyad Caliphate abandoned their year-long siege of Constantinople, causing the caliphate to give up its goal of conquering the Byzantine Empire.
- 1461 – The Empire of Trebizond, the longest surviving Byzantine successor state, was conquered by Ottoman sultan Mehmed II following a month-long siege.
- 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city of Malacca, giving Portugal control over the Strait of Malacca, through which all sea-going trade between China and India was concentrated.
- 1907 – Jamaican American Raphael Morgan was ordained as the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America.
- 1914 – The Panama Canal opened to traffic, providing a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Isthmus of Panama.
- 1915 – The New York World revealed that Germany had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
- 1942 – World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta, as part of an operation to deliver much-needed supplies during the Siege of Malta.
- 1944 – World War II: Allied forces began their invasion of southern France.
- 1945 – The Gyokuon-hōsō was broadcast in Japan, announcing the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army and naval forces.
- 1947 – The British Raj was partitioned into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.
- 1948 – The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee as its first president.
- 1952 – A flash flood in the Lynmouth area of south-west England destroyed over 100 homes and 28 bridges, and killed 34 people.
- 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
- 1977 – The Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio received a strong, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal, which became known as the "Wow! signal".
- 1998 – A car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army killed 29 people and injured approximately 220 others in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Notes
- Siege of Detroit appears on August 16, so Battle of Fort Dearborn should not appear in the same year
- 1868 Arica earthquake appears on August 13, so 2007 earthquake should not appear in the same year.
August 15: Victory over Japan Day in the UK; Feast of the Assumption (Christianity); Independence Day in the Congo (1960) and India (1947)
- 778 – A Frankish army led by Roland was defeated by the Basques at Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain.
- 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos (pictured) was crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
- 1812 – War of 1812: Potawatomi warriors destroyed the United States Army's Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, and captured the survivors.
- 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs was executed by firing squad at the Tower of London for espionage, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower.
- 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending 28 years of fighting.