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Birthday August 15, 1432 Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (Morgante) |
Birthday August 15, 1688 Frederick William I, king of Prussia |
Birthday August 15, 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15) |
Birthday August 15, 1771 Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet (Lady of Lake) |
Birthday August 15, 1803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia |
Birthday August 15, 1859 Charles Comiskey born |
Birthday August 15, 1860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady |
Birthday August 15, 1879 Ethel Barrymore, American stage, screen, TV Actress |
Birthday August 15, 1887 Edna Ferber, author of Show Boat, is born |
Birthday August 15, 1888 TE Lawrence, writer (aka Lawrence of Arabia) |
Birthday August 15, 1904 Bill Baird, puppeteer |
Birthday August 15, 1912 Julia Child, in Pasadena Calif, chef |
Birthday August 15, 1912 Wendy Hiller, Actress |
Birthday August 15, 1924 Robert Bolt, Playwright |
Birthday August 15, 1924 Phyllis Schlafly, right-winger, St. Louis |
Birthday August 15, 1925 Mike Conners, Actor |
Birthday August 15, 1925 Rose Marie, Actress |
Birthday August 15, 1931 Janice Rule, Actress in Norwood Ohio |
Birthday August 15, 1933 Lori Nelson |
Birthday August 15, 1935 Vernon Jordan, Civil rights activist |
Birthday August 15, 1935 Abby Dalton, in Las Vegas |
Birthday August 15, 1935 Jim Dale, musical entertainer |
Birthday August 15, 1943 Barbara Bouchet |
Birthday August 15, 1944 Linda Ellerbee, Broadcast journalist & author |
History August 15, 1057 Macbeth King of Scotland slain by the son of King Duncan |
History August 15, 1057 Malcolm slays Macbeth |
History August 15, 1620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims |
History August 15, 1780 Swamp Fox routs loyalists while Gates' men fall ill |
History August 15, 1812 Indian captive William Wells is killed |
History August 15, 1861 Anderson is named commander of Department of the Kentucky |
History August 15, 1886 Guy Hecker scores seven times in 1 game |
History August 15, 1899 Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company |
History August 15, 1901 Arch Rock danger to Bay shipping blasted with 30 tons of nitro |
History August 15, 1912 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice |
History August 15, 1914 Panama Canal open to traffic |
History August 15, 1914 Japan gives ultimatum to Germany |
History August 15, 1914 Panama Canal opens |
History August 15, 1918 US & Russia severed diplomatic ties |
History August 15, 1930 Hoover looks to combat drought and economic depression |
History August 15, 1935 Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska |
History August 15, 1939 The Wizard of Oz premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater Hollywood |
History August 15, 1945 The Japanese emperor speaks |
History August 15, 1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule. Riot in SF celebrating end of WW II. US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ended |
History August 15, 1947 India and Pakistan win independence |
History August 15, 1947 India & Pakistan granted independence within British Commonwealth |
History August 15, 1948 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day) |
History August 15, 1960 Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France (Nat'l Day) |
History August 15, 1961 Berlin Wall built |
History August 15, 1964 Khrushchev announces he is ready to begin arms talks |
History August 15, 1965 Beatle's Shea Stadium concert |
History August 15, 1968 Heavy fighting erupts in and around the DMZ |
History August 15, 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair opened in NY State |
History August 15, 1969 Woodstock begins in upstate New York |
History August 15, 1970 Regional Forces victorious |
History August 15, 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) |
History August 15, 1971 North Vietnamese capture Vietnamese marine base |
History August 15, 1971 Pres Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages prices & rents |
History August 15, 1971 Bahrain gains independence from Britain |
History August 15, 1974 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escaped an assassination |
History August 15, 1979 Apocalypse Now released |
History August 15, 1981 Robin Leamy of US swims a record 7.98 kph for 50 m |
History August 15, 1983 Hurricane Alicia pounds Texas coast |
History August 15, 2006 Wife of slain minister released from jail |