8.15 -->  Feast of the  Dormition of the Theotokos    8.15.1995 -->  In  South Carolina ,  Shannon Faulkner  becomes the first female  cadet  matriculated at  The Citadel  (she drops out less than a week later). 8.15.1907 -->  Ordination in Constantinople of Fr.  Raphael Morgan , first African-American  Orthodox  priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America