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15th July

July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining.

Events

1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
1410 - Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris), power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians.
1685 - In England, the Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, after he was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemore.
1799 - In the Egyptian village of Rosette, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
1806 - Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike leads an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
1870 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1916 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1958 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there.
1975 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
2002 - So-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.

1573 - Inigo Jones, architect
1606 - Rembrandt, artist (+ 1669)
1779 - Clement Moore, author, poet
1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist, author Bulfinch's Mythology (+ 1867)
1848 - Vilfredo Pareto, economist and sociologist (+ 1923)
1865 - Alfred Charles William Northcliffe, newspaper publisher (+ 1922)
1892 - Walter Benjamin, literary critic and writer (+ 1940)
1902 - Jean Ray, politician, President of the European Commission 1967-1970 (+ 1983)
1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
1919 - Iris Murdoch, writer (+ 1999)
1927 - Nan Clow Martin, actress
1928 - Carl Woese, microbiologist
1930 - Stephen Smale, mathematician who broke the dimension barrier
1931 - Clive Cussler, author
1934 - Harrison Birtwistle, composer
1942 - Mil Mascaras, former professional wrestler
1945 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician
1946 - Linda Ronstadt, singer
1949 - Carl Bildt, politician
1951 - Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler, former governor of Minnesota
1961 - Forest Whitaker, actor
1966 - Irène Jacob, actress
1978 - Olivier Mercanti, Scientist

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