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)