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August 15 - Wikipedia
August 15 is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 138 days remain until the end of the year. 636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins.717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik … See more
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• 1013 – Teishi, empress of Japan (d. 1094)
• 1171 – Alfonso IX, king of León and Galicia (d. 1230)
• 1195 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (d. … See more• Armed Forces Day (Poland)
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• Constitution Day (Equatorial Guinea)
• Founding of Asunción (Paraguay)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Korea from Japan in 1945: See moreAugust 15Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation.August 15, 1914The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.August 15, 1945Emperor Hirohito broadcasts his declaration of surrender following the effective surrender of Japan in World War II; Korea gains independence from the Empire of Japan.August 15, 1947India gains independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.August 15, 1971President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.August 15, 1975Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.August 15, 1995In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).August 15, 2015North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81/2 hours ahead of UTC.August 15, 2020Russia begins production on the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.August 15, 2021Gerd Müller, German footballer (b. 1945)• "On This Day". BBC.
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• "Historical Events on August 15". OnThisDay.com. See morePeople mentioned in the articleWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license 15. august - Wikipedia, den frie encyklopædi
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