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July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1849 – The first air raid in history occurs; ...
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1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history. 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 ...
Highlights of this day in history: President Richard Nixon announces his breakthrough trip to China; Fashion designer Gianni Versace slain; Aerospace giant Boeing founded; Dutch painter Rembrandt ...
After Jerusalem was captured on 15 July 1099, thousands of Muslims and Jews were massacred by Crusader soldiers. As the Crusaders secured control over the Temple Mount , revered as the site of the two destroyed Jewish Temples , they also seized Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and repurposed them as Christian shrines.
July 11–15, 1995: 4 derechos occurred over 4 consecutive nights. The first one formed the evening of July 11 in eastern Montana and dissipated the next morning over Minnesota. That evening a second derecho followed a nearly identical path before turning south over Michigan and dissipating over Ohio the evening of the 13th.
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...
The Battle of Grunwald [a] was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.The alliance of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila), and Grand Duke Vytautas, decisively defeated the German Teutonic Order, led by Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen.