15th July anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1775
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Sir Richard Westmacott, sculpture"
  • 1808
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, English Roman Catholic Archbishop."
  • 1808
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Sir Henry Cole, British civil servant, instrumental in numerous innovations in commerce and the arts, including preserving the national archives, launching the Penny Post, and introducing the first commercial Christmas cards.."
  • 1866
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Dame Marie Tempest, actress"
  • 1919
  • Ireland
  • "Birth of Dame Iris Murdoch, writer"
• event
  • 971
  • Great Britain
  • "St Swithun's body moved from his outdoor grave to an indoor shrine in the the Old Minster in Winchester aganst his expressed wishes – legend says this was accompanied by bad weather, from which the popular British weather lore proverb comes, that if it ra"
  • 1099
  • Great Britain
  • Jerusalem falls to the Crusaders
  • 1799
  • Egypt
  • "Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt, made possible the deciphering (in 1822) of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics"
  • 1903
  • United States
  • "The Ford Motor Company sold its first car to Dr. E. Pfenning of Chicago, Illinois" more
  • 1918
  • World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne began .
  • 1948
  • Great Britain
  • The British branch of Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in London .
  • 1958
  • LE
  • "1,700 US Marines landed in Beirut to provide military support to the pro- Western Lebanese government."
  • 1995
  • United States
  • First item sold on Amazon.com
• Death
  • 1609
  • Italy
  • "Death of Annibale Carracci, Italian Baroque artist"
  • 1881
  • United States
  • Death of William Bonney (Billy the Kid) shot by Pat Garrett more
  • 1883
  • United States
  • "Death of General Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton), American circus midget and showman."
  • 1904
  • Russian Federation
  • "Death of Anton Chekhov, writer"
  • 1933
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Irving Babbitt, American literary critic ."
  • 1959
  • Switzerland
  • "Death of Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American composer"
  • 1959
  • Germany
  • Death of Ernst Bloch
  • 1997
  • Italy
  • "Death of Gianni Versace, fashion designer"