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July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 169 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 484 BC ...
1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London; 1843 - Death of Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766) 1920 - Birth of Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
This is a list of selected July 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, ...
July 31: Lā Hae Hawaiʻi (Flag Day) and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) in Hawaii The lunar surface as photographed by Ranger 7 approximately 17 minutes before impact 1874 – Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University , becoming the first African-American president of a predominantly white ...
We've got 16 famous people and celebrities born on July 4. Tom Cruise may have starred in the Oscar-winning 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July , but he missed it being his actual birthday (July ...
Born in Los Angeles in 1980 as Carrie Nile, this July 4 baby is most famous for such shows as "Bravo After Hours with Carrie Keagan," "Big Morning Buzz Live," and appeared on "The Apprentice" in 2004.
1979 – U.S President]] Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation." 1997 – In Miami, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside ...
Forest Steven Whitaker was born on July 15, 1961, in Longview, Texas, [6] the son of Laura Francis (née Smith), a special education teacher and Forest E. Whitaker Jr., an insurance salesman. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] A DNA test has shown that his mother had Akan ancestry, while his father was of Igbo descent. [ 9 ]