The 15t o August is the 227t day o the year (228t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 138 days bidin.
Events
1947 : Banner o Indie 1948 : Creation o the Republic o Korea (in blue ) 1960 : Banner o the Republic o the Congo 1057 - Macbeth, Keeng o Scotland is kilt in battle.
1248 - The foondation stane o Cologne Cathedral is laid.
1271 - King Philip III o Fraunce is crouned in Reims .
1483 - Sistine Chaipel consecratit bi Pape Sixtus IV .
1519 - Panama Ceety is foondit.
1537 - Asuncion , current caipital o Paraguay , is foondit.
1540 - The ceety o Arequipa in present-day Peru is foondit.
1824 - Freed African slaves foond Liberie .
1869 - Japan 's Meiji govrenment creates 7 new ministries.
1914 - Openin o the Panama Canal .
1945 - Warld War II : Surrender o Japan tae the Allies.
1945 - Warld War II : The Allies liberate Korea frae Japan .
1947 - Indie becomes independent o the Unitit Kinrick .
1948 - The Republic o Korea is creatit.
1950 - Assam , in northeastren Indie , is strack bi a major yirdquauk .
1960 - The Republic o the Congo becomes independent o Fraunce .
1963 - Henry John Burnett becomes the last person tae be hanged in Scotland .
1969 - Stairt o the Woodstock muisic festival in the state o New York .
1971 - Bahrain declares unthirldom.
1975 - Assassination o Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , leader o Bangladesh .
1989 - F. W. de Klerk becomes State Preses o Sooth Africae .
1998 - The Real IRA carries oot the Omagh bombin in Northren Ireland , killin 29 fowk.
2007 - A yirdquauk in Peru kills ower 400 fowk.
2008 - Fernando Lugo becomes Preses o Paraguay .
2013 - Horacio Cartes becomes Preses o Paraguay .
2013 - The discovery o a previously-unkent mammal species in Sooth Americae is propaled - the Olinguito .
2015 - Kezia Dugdale becomes leader o the Scots Labour Pairty .
2018 - A bomb attack on an education centre in Kabul , Afghanistan , kills 34 fowk; on the semme day, an attack in the kintra's Baghlan province kills 9 polismen an 35 sodgers. Births
Sir Walter Scott Jennifer Lawrence 1575 - Diego, Prince o Asturies (d. 1582 )
1736 - Alexander Runciman , Scots penter (d. 1785 )
1769 - Napoleon , Emperor o Fraunce (d. 1821 )
1771 - Sir Walter Scott , Scots author (d. 1832 )
1856 - Keir Hardie , Scots poleetical activist (d. 1915 )
1872 - Sri Aurobindo , Indie philosopher an guru (d. 1950 )
1873 - Jack White , Scots gowfer (d. 1949 )
1892 - Louis de Broglie , French pheesicist (d. 1987 )
1896 - Gerty Cori , Czech-American biochemist (d. 1957 )
1912 - Julia Child , American chef, author an telly personality (d. 2004 )
1917 - Jack Lynch , Erse Taoiseach (d. 1999 )
1925 - Aldo Ciccolini , Italian-French pianist (d. 2015 )
1925 - Mike Connors , American actor (d. 2017 )
1931 - Richard F. Heck , American chemist (d. 2015 )
1950 - Anne, Princess Ryal
1954 - Stieg Larsson , Swadish writer (d. 2004 )
1968 - Debra Messing , American actress
1972 - Ben Affleck , American actor an director
1975 - Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi , Japanese fitbawer
1976 - Abiy Ahmed , Ethiopie politeecian, Prime meenister o Ethiopie
1990 - Jennifer Lawrence , American actress
1993 - Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain , Inglis fitbawer
Daiths
1057 : Macbeth, Keeng o Scotland 1057 - Macbeth, Keeng o Scotland
1118 - Alexios I Komnenos , Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048 )
1621 - John Barclay , Scots writer, satirist an poet (b. 1582 )
1900 - John Anderson , Scots zoologist (b. 1833 )
1907 - John Kerr , Scots pheesicist (b. 1824 )
1935 - Paul Signac , French penter (b. 1863 )
1936 - Grazia Deledda , Italian writer (b. 1871 )
1962 - Bob McIntyre , Scots motorcycle racer (b. 1928 )
1963 - Henry John Burnett , last person tae be hanged in Scotland (b. 1942 )
1967 - René Magritte , Belgian airtist (b. 1898 )
1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , Bangladeshi statesman (b. 1920 )
2014 - Jan Ekier , Pols pianist an componer (b. 1913 )
2015 - Julian Bond , American social activist (b. 1940 )
2020 - Stuart Christie , Scots anarchist an writer (b. 1946 ) Halidays