15 August

The **15t o August** is the 227t day o the year (228t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 138 days bidin.

## Events

* 1057 - Macbeth, Keeng o Scotland is kilt in battle.
* 1248 - The foondation stane o Cologne Cathedral is laid.
* 1271 - King Philip III o Fraunce is crouned in Reims.
* 1483 - Sistine Chaipel consecratit bi Pape Sixtus IV.
* 1519 - Panama Ceety is foondit.
* 1537 - Asuncion, current caipital o Paraguay, is foondit.
* 1540 - The ceety o Arequipa in present-day Peru is foondit.
* 1824 - Freed African slaves foond Liberie.
* 1869 - Japan's Meiji govrenment creates 7 new ministries.
* 1914 - Openin o the Panama Canal.
* 1945 - Warld War II: Surrender o Japan tae the Allies.
* 1945 - Warld War II: The Allies liberate Korea frae Japan.
* 1947 - Indie becomes independent o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1948 - The Republic o Korea is creatit.
* 1950 - Assam, in northeastren Indie, is strack bi a major yirdquauk.
* 1960 - The Republic o the Congo becomes independent o Fraunce.
* 1963 - Henry John Burnett becomes the last person tae be hanged in Scotland.
* 1969 - Stairt o the Woodstock muisic festival in the state o New York.
* 1971 - Bahrain declares unthirldom.
* 1975 - Assassination o Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader o Bangladesh.
* 1989 - F. W. de Klerk becomes State Preses o Sooth Africae.
* 1998 - The Real IRA carries oot the Omagh bombin in Northren Ireland, killin 29 fowk.
* 2007 - A yirdquauk in Peru kills ower 400 fowk.
* 2008 - Fernando Lugo becomes Preses o Paraguay.
* 2013 - Horacio Cartes becomes Preses o Paraguay.
* 2013 - The discovery o a previously-unkent mammal species in Sooth Americae is propaled - the Olinguito.
* 2015 - Kezia Dugdale becomes leader o the Scots Labour Pairty.
* 2018 - A bomb attack on an education centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 34 fowk; on the semme day, an attack in the kintra's Baghlan province kills 9 polismen an 35 sodgers.

## Births

* 1575 - Diego, Prince o Asturies (d. 1582)
* 1736 - Alexander Runciman, Scots penter (d. 1785)
* 1769 - Napoleon, Emperor o Fraunce (d. 1821)
* 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scots author (d. 1832)
* 1856 - Keir Hardie, Scots poleetical activist (d. 1915)
* 1872 - Sri Aurobindo, Indie philosopher an guru (d. 1950)
* 1873 - Jack White, Scots gowfer (d. 1949)
* 1892 - Louis de Broglie, French pheesicist (d. 1987)
* 1896 - Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist (d. 1957)
* 1912 - Julia Child, American chef, author an telly personality (d. 2004)
* 1917 - Jack Lynch, Erse Taoiseach (d. 1999)
* 1925 - Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (d. 2015)
* 1925 - Mike Connors, American actor (d. 2017)
* 1931 - Richard F. Heck, American chemist (d. 2015)
* 1950 - Anne, Princess Ryal
* 1954 - Stieg Larsson, Swadish writer (d. 2004)
* 1968 - Debra Messing, American actress
* 1972 - Ben Affleck, American actor an director
* 1975 - Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Japanese fitbawer
* 1976 - Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopie politeecian, Prime meenister o Ethiopie
* 1990 - Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
* 1993 - Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Inglis fitbawer

## Daiths

* 1057 - Macbeth, Keeng o Scotland
* 1118 - Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)
* 1621 - John Barclay, Scots writer, satirist an poet (b. 1582)
* 1900 - John Anderson, Scots zoologist (b. 1833)
* 1907 - John Kerr, Scots pheesicist (b. 1824)
* 1935 - Paul Signac, French penter (b. 1863)
* 1936 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer (b. 1871)
* 1962 - Bob McIntyre, Scots motorcycle racer (b. 1928)
* 1963 - Henry John Burnett, last person tae be hanged in Scotland (b. 1942)
* 1967 - René Magritte, Belgian airtist (b. 1898)
* 1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi statesman (b. 1920)
* 2014 - Jan Ekier, Pols pianist an componer (b. 1913)
* 2015 - Julian Bond, American social activist (b. 1940)
* 2020 - Stuart Christie, Scots anarchist an writer (b. 1946)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Indie)
* Naitional Day (Liechtenstein, Republic o the Congo, Sooth Korea)
* Ferragosto (Italy)
* Assumption (Roman Catholic Kirk)
* Mither's Day (Costa Rica)
* Airmed Forces Day (Poland)
* Constitution Day (Equatorial Guinea)