Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 15
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| Obon festival in Japan | refimprove section |
| Democracy and National Unity Day in Turkey | stub |
| 1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeated the Swedes on the river Neva near Ust-Izhora, present-day Russia. | OR section |
| 1806 – The Pike Expedition, led by Zebulon Pike to explore the Louisiana Territory, began near St. Louis, Missouri. | refimprove section |
| 1823 – A fire, accidentally started by a workman who was repairing the lead of the roof, destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The church was restored by 1840. | refimprove |
| 1888 – The volcano Mount Bandai in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan erupted, killing at least 470 people. | refimprove |
| 1910 – Emil Kraepelin (pictured) published a new edition of his Textbook of Psychiatry, including for the first time Alzheimer's disease, named after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. | Update tags |
| 1916 – William E. Boeing incorporated the Pacific Aero Products Co., which was later renamed Boeing. | refimprove section |
| 1959 – Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike, closing nearly every steel mill in the country. | page numbers needed |
| 1966 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese troops began Operation Hastings to push North Vietnamese forces out of the Demilitarized Zone. | Single source; copied from PD, so not WP's own work |
| 1974 – Greek-sponsored nationalists overthrew Makarios III, President of Cyprus, in a coup d'état and replaced him with Nikos Sampson. | Makarios needs more footnotes; Sampson has multiple issues |
| 1983 – Armenian extremist organization ASALA bombed the Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport, killing 8 and injuring 55, as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian genocide. | Date not cited |
| 1997 – American serial killer Andrew Cunanan gunned down fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami, Florida. | refimprove section |
| 2003 – The non-profit Mozilla Foundation was founded to ensure the open-source Mozilla project would survive after AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape Communications. | Mozilla: refimprove section; Netscape: outdated |
| 2006 – The online social networking and news service Twitter was launched. | outdated |
| 2014 – A metro train derailed in Moscow, killing 24 people and injuring 160 others in the deadliest accident in the Moscow Metro's history. | Undercited |
| Laurie Cunningham |d|1989| | Orange "more sources needed" banner |
| Gianni Versace|d|1997| | Orange "more sources needed" banner |
Eligible
- 1799 – French soldiers at Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid, uncovered the Rosetta Stone, which was essential in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts.
- 1870 – Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
- 1943 – The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
- 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
- 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy (pictured) released his hit single "Gangnam Style".
- 2016 – The Peace at Home Council, a faction of the Turkish Armed Forces, staged a coup d'état attempt against the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
- Born/died this day: | Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots|d|1445| Rembrandt|b|1606| Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps|bd|1793; 1884| Manuel Torres|d|1822| Jean-Antoine Houdon|d|1828| Vilfredo Pareto|b|1848| Anton Chekhov|d|1904| Lisa Kahn|b|1921| Nugroho Notosusanto|b|1930| Betty Wagoner|b|1930| Livia Gouverneur|b|1941| Nigel Williams|b|1944| Jesse Ventura|b|1951| Christine Chubbuck|d|1974| Donald Mackay |d|1977| Ebrahim Desai|d|2021|
July 15: Statehood Day in Ukraine (2022)
- 1410 – The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald, the decisive engagement of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
- 1815 – Aboard HMS Bellerophon, French emperor Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, concluding the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1983 – Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000 (pictured), was released in Japan.
- 2009 – A Mw 7.8 earthquake struck a remote region of Fiordland, New Zealand, the country's largest earthquake magnitude since the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
- 2018 – Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their defeat to France.
- Rembrandt (b. 1606)
- Nina Bari (d. 1961)
- Cherry (b. 1975)
- Celeste Holm (d. 2012)