15 Julie

The 15t o Julie is the 196t day o the year (197t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 169 days ti come.

 Events 
 1741 - Aleksei Chirikov lands in sootheast Alaska.
 1834 - The Spaingie Inquisition is disbanded.
 1870 - In Canadae, the province o Manitoba an the Northwast Territories are creatit.
 1870 - The state o Georgie rejyns the Unitit States.
 1888 - The Bandai volcanae in Japan erupts, killin 477 fowk.
 1922 - The Japanese Communist Pairty is foondit.
 1927 - 89 protesters are kilt bi Austrick polis in Vienna.
 1965 - NASA's Mariner 4 sends back photographs frae Mars.
 1997 - Fasion designer Gianni Versace is shot deed ootside his residence in Miami, Florida.
 1999 - The Unitit Kinrick re-stairts flichts tae Argentinae, 17 year efter the war ower the Falkland Islands.
 2006 - Twitter is launched.
 2007 - Shimon Peres becomes Preses o Israel.
 2009 - Caspian Airlines Flicht 7908 crashes in the Northwast o Iran, killin 153 fowk.
 2010 - Semme-sex mairiage is legalisit in Argentinae.
 2016 - Factions o the militar attempt a coup in Turkey.
 2018 - 2018 FIFA Warld Cup: Fraunce wins the FIFA Warld Cup for a seicont time, defeatin first-time feenalists Croatie 4-2 in the Feenal.
 2019 - It is propaled that Alan Turing will appear on a new Bank o Ingland note frae 2021.
 2019 - Scotland is revealed tae hae the heichest per capita drog daith rate in baith the Unitit Kinrick an European Union, wi 1,187 daiths in 2018.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Lockdoon easin in Scotland - Pubs, bars, restaurants an hairdressers are permittit tae reopen.
 2020 - Twitter accounts o prominent figurs, CEOs an celebrities are hackit tae promote a Bitcoin scam.

 Births 
 1573 - Inigo Jones, Inglis airchitect (d. 1652)
 1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch penter (d. 1669)
 1777 - George Young, Scots divine, scholart an geologist (d. 1848)
 1790 - William Henry Playfair, Scots airchitect (d. 1857)
 1804 - Jane Stirling, Scots pianist (d. 1859)
 1848 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian ingineer, sociologist, economist an poleetical scientist (d. 1923)
 1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, Inglis suffragette (d. 1928)
 1867 - Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist, medicinar an polar splorer (d. 1936)
 1892 - Walter Benjamin, German Jewish philosopher (d. 1940)
 1917 - Robert Conquest, Inglis-American historian an writer (d. 2015)
 1918 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian pheesicist (d. 2003)
 1919 - Iris Murdoch, Erse writer (d. 1999)
 1922 - Leon M. Lederman, American pheesicist (d. 2018)
 1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine militar leader (d. 2003)
 1930 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
 1939 - Anibal Cavaco Silva, umwhile Preses o Portugal
 1943 - Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northren Erse astropheesicist
 1943 - Evan Williams, Scots fitbawer
 1946 - Linda Ronstadt, American sangster
 1946 - Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan o Brunei
 1949 - Carl Bildt, Swadish politeecian
 1950 - Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist
 1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former Preses o Haiti
 1954 - Mario Kempes, Argentine fitbawer
 1961 - Forest Whitaker, American actor
 1965 - Alistair Carmichael, Scots politeecian
 1965 - David Miliband, Inglis politeecian
 1968 - Shirley Robertson, Scots sailor
 1970 - Angela Constance, Scots politeecian
 1976 - Diane Kruger, German actress an model
 1979 - Alexander Frei, Swiss fitbawer
 1989 - Scott Gallacher, Scots fitbawer
 1996 - Vivianne Miedema, Dutch fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1291 - Rudolph I o Germany (b. 1218)
 1445 - Joan Beaufort, Queen o Scots (b. 1404)
 1470 - Alexander Gordon, 1st Yerl o Huntly, Scots magnate
 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Roushie playwricht (b. 1860)
 1917 - William McBeath, Scots fitbawer (b. 1856)
 1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (b. 1852)
 1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
 1999 - Simon Ramsay, 16t Yerl o Dawhoosie, Scots politeecian (b. 1914)
 2005 - David Daiches, Scots leeterar historian (b. 1912)
 2012 - Celeste Holm, American actress an sangster (b. 1917)
 2017 - Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)

 Halidays 
 St. Swithun's Day (Ingland)

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