SomeFacts | July 15

On this day - July 15

2018 – France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.

2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and ...

2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.

2009 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to ...

2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, ...

2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in ...

2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is ...

2002 – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born ...

2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to ...

1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is ...

1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal ...

1983 – Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective ...

1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian ...

1979 – U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".

1975 – Aeroflot Flight E-15 crashes on approach to Batumi ...

1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch ...

1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch ...

1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan.

1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin ...

1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against ...

1954 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and ...

1946 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by ...

1942 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 ...

1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed ...

1922 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.

1920 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes ...

1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the ...

1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad ...

1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name ...

1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately ...

1870 – Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western ...

1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the ...

1862 – American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ...

1849 – The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches ...

1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at ...

1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly ...

1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the ...

1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS ...

1806 – Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike ...

1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta ...

1789 – French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is ...

1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ...

1738 – Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitsyn are burned alive in St. ...

1640 – The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, ...

1482 – Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king ...

1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied ...

1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn ...

1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander ...

1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting ...

1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated ...

1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy ...

756 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his ...

70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of ...

484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient ...