Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 15
August 15: Independence Day in India (1947)
- 1517 - First European connection with China - seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade met Chinese officials at Pearl River estuary.
- 1914 - The Panama Canal opened to traffic.
- 1945 - Japan surrendered to the United States, ending World War II.
- 1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York began.
- 1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", was captured