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 or picture of the day.
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Fort Dearborn -
The Wow! signal
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast of the Assumption (Christianity); | refimprove section |
| Feast of the Dormition (Orthodox Christianity) | refimprove |
| Independence Day in the Congo (1960) and | refimprove section |
| Flooding of the Nile begins in Egypt | refimprove section |
| National Liberation Day of Korea in North and South Korea (1945) | unbalanced |
| 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. | lots of CN tags |
| 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos was crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 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. | refimprove section; 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. | close paraphrasing |
| 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 |
| 1806 – Serbian Revolution: Serbian insurgents were decisively victorious over the Ottomans in the Battle of Mišar. | refimprove |
| 1843 – Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, today the most popular amusement park in Scandinavia, opened. | refimprove section |
| 1914 – The Panama Canal opened to traffic, providing a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Isthmus of Panama. | unreferenced section |
| 1947 – The British Raj was partitioned into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. | duplication |
| 1969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York began. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending 28 years of fighting. | unreferenced section |
| 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of Peru devastated Ica and various nearby regions. | refimprove section |
| Abu Hanifa (d. 767) | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1038 – Upon the death of his uncle Stephen I, Peter became the second King of Hungary.
- 1461 – The Empire of Trebizond, the longest surviving Byzantine successor state, was conquered by Ottoman sultan Mehmed II following a month-long siege.
- 1812 – War of 1812: Potawatomi warriors destroyed the United States Army's Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, and captured the survivors.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh, and most of his family were assassinated in a military coup.
- 1977 – The Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio received a strong, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal, which became known as the "Wow! signal".
- Born/died this day: Richard de Vere (b. 1385) · Johan Gadolin (d. 1852) · Gerty Cori (b. 1896)
Notes
- History of aspirin appears on Selected anniversaries/August 10, so Great Phenol Plot should not appear in the same year
- 1868 Arica earthquake appears on August 13, so 2007 earthquake should not appear in the same year
- Siege of Detroit appears on August 16, so Battle of Fort Dearborn should not appear in the same year
August 15: Independence Day in India (1947)
- 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.
- 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque (pictured) 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 – Raphael Morgan was ordained as what is believed to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America.
- 1948 – The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee as its first president.
- 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.
Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos (d. 1022) · Charles Comiskey (b. 1859) · Rosalía Mera (d. 2013)