Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 15

Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great
1237: City of Berlin founded.
1308: Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece
1457: Earliest dated book, Mainz Psalter, completed
1519: Panama City founded
1534: Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
1535: Asunci¢n, Paraguay founded
1548: Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France
1549: Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan
1620: Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
1635: 1st recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1653: -16] Dutch ship Sperwer stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea
1658: France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Mnster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond
1668: Rijnbond disbands
1684: Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
1741: French troops attack the Rhine
1748: United Lutheran Church of US organized
1760: Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
1785: French cardinal De Rohan arrested
1790: John Carroll consecrated as first Catholic bishop in America in chapel at Dorset, England.
1795: Joseph Haydn leaves England forever
1824: Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1832: Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
1843: National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
1843: Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens
1848: M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1848: The dental chair patented by designer M. Waldo Hanchett of Syracuse, N.Y.
1858: Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1861: Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MI
1863: Submarine HL Hunley arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1864: Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1867: 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1868: J C Watson discovers asteroid #101 Helena
1870: Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
1876: C H F Peters discovers asteroid #166 Rhodope
1876: US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1886: Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
1892: 4th & last British government of Gladstone forms
1893: US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
1899: Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
1901: Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
1904: P Gotz & A Kopff discover asteroid #542 Susanna
1905: Phila A's Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
1906: 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1909: A Kopff discovers asteroid #686 Gersuind
1911: Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
1912: Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
1914: 13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1914: Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs
1914: German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured
1914: Japan joins side of allies
1914: Panama Canal officially opened; first passage from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans made by SS Ancon.
1914: Panama Canal opens (under cost)
1915: Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
1917: G Neujmin discovers asteroid #882 Swetlana
1918: 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
1918: Russia severs diplomatic ties with US
1920: Walter Baade discover asteroid #934 Thuringia
1923: Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
1923: Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
1923: V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1002 Olbersia
1925: games in 1919
1925: Norway annexes Spitsbergen
1925: White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series
1928: P Shajn discovers asteroids #1112 Polonia & #1113 Katja
1931: Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
1931: Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
1931: Spakenburg soccer team forms
1935: Will Rogers and Wiley Post go down in airplane
1936: G N Neujmin discovers asteroid #4420
1939: G N Neujmin discovers asteroid #2536 Kozyrev
1939: In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2
1939: K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1739 Meyermann, #1818 Brahms & #2306
1939: Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
1940: 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
1940: Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
1941: Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
1942: 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
1943: Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
1944: Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
1944: German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day
1944: Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1944: Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
1944: US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orl‚ans
1944: US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
1945: A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II
1945: Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette,
1945: Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
1945: South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
1945: US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
1945: V-J Day. Victory over Japan in World War II. WWII
1945: Wizard of Oz premieres at Graumann's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.
1947: India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
1947: Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) declares independence from UK
1948: Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
1949: WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950: 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1950: Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1950: Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
1950: Indies Constitution goes into effect
1950: Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
1950: Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
1950: Rotterdam harbor strike begins
1952: 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
1952: 9 of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
1952: P Shajn discovers asteroid #1954 Kukarkin
1954: Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay
1954: WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
1955: WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
1957: David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
1957: USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
1958: 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
1958: Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago
1958: Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank
1958: Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
1960: CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
1960: Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
1960: Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
1960: Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0
1960: UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1961: Building of Berlin Wall begins
1962: Netherlands & Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
1962: Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1963: Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville
1963: K W Kamper discovers asteroid #2104 Toronto
1964: Mayor Daley declares Ernie Banks Day in Chicago
1964: Phillies triple-play NY Mets
1964: Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
1965: Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
1965: Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick
1965: Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
1966: Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
1967: England's Marine Offense Bill makies pirate radio stations a crime
1967: goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down
1967: Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
1968: Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
1968: Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague
1968: USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1969: Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1971: Bahrain gains independence from Britain
1971: Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)
1971: KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1971: Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
1973: Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
1973: David Storey's Cromwell, premieres in London
1974: Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1974: Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
1974: South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
1975: Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
1975: Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
1977: SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1978: House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
1979: Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
1980: A Mrkos discovers asteroid #7107
1982: Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
1983: Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery
1985: Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
1985: E Bowell discovers asteroid #4598 Coradini
1985: E F Helin & M Barucci discover asteroid #3752
1985: Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
1986: Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
1987: 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition
1987: At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in
1988: Ain't Misbehavin' opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 perfs
1988: At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
1988: C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #7173
1988: M Yanai & K Watanabe discover asteroid #3915 Fukushima
1988: NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1989: Cancer sufferer/SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
1989: Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa
1989: Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
1989: his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
1989: In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks
1989: US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1990: E W Elst discovers asteroid #5033 Mistral
1990: Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1990: Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
1991: 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
1991: A Natori & T Urata discover asteroid #4959 Niinoama
1991: E F Helin discovers asteroid #5521 Morpurgo & #7061
1992: Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
1992: Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
1993: Goodbye Girl closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances
1993: Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
1993: NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time
1993: Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
1994: S African Pres Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
1994: Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
1995: Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
1997: Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR
1997: Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
1997: LA Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2

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