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.
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SS Kentuckian passing through the Panama Canal
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in North Korea | {{globalize}} |
| Flooding of the Nile begins in Egypt | refimprove, stubby |
| Feast of the Dormition | refimprove |
| 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. | needs more footnotes |
| 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 |
| 1969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York began. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1281 – Mongol invasions of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
- 1907 – Jamaican American Raphael Morgan was ordained as the first Black Orthodox clergy in America.
- 1914 – The Panama Canal opened to traffic, providing a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Isthmus of Panama.
- 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.
- 1947 – The British Raj was partitioned into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.
- 1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh, and most of his family were assassinated in a military coup.
- 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University's Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence project, received a strong radio signal from deep space that 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.
- 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastated Ica and various regions of Peru.
August 15: Victory over Japan Day; Feast of the Assumption in Christianity; Independence Day in India (1947) and the Congo (1960); Liberation Day in South Korea (1945)
- 1517 – In the Pearl River Delta, Portuguese diplomat Fernão Pires de Andrade met with Ming Dynasty officials, marking the resumption of direct European contact with China.
- 1534 – Ignatius of Loyola (pictured) and six others at Montmartre near Paris took the vows that led to the establishment of the Society of Jesus.
- 1843 – Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, today the most popular amusement park in Scandinavia, opened.
- 1945 – The Gyokuon-hōsō was broadcast in Japan, announcing the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army and naval forces, bringing World War II to a close.
- 1948 – The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee as its first president.