What are the important events that happened on July 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 15 is the 196th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 2, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,752,537,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontahexagon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 217 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,589 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 15 Historical Events
- 1240 –Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
- 1381 –John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
- 1789 –Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
- 1838 –Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
- 1870 –Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
- 1910 –In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
- 1955 –Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- 1966 –Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
- 1979 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called “malaise” speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation” but in which he never uses the word malaise
- 2002 –Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Who were born on July 15?
- 1929 –Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-born French musician and novelist (d. 2001)
- 1949 –Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
- 1952 –Terry O'Quinn, American actor
- 1956 –Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver
- 1959 –Vincent Lindon, French actor
- 1962 –Steve Brown, American darts player
- 1965 –Eleftherios Fotiadis, Greek footballer
- 1977 –Andre Nel, South African cricketer
- 1980 –Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
- 1982 –Alan Pérez, Spanish cyclist
Who died on July 15?
- 1890 –Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
- 1919 –Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
- 1933 –Freddie Keppard, American Jazz cornetist (b. 1890)
- 1960 –Set Persson, Swedish Communist politician (b. 1897)
- 1965 –Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
- 1979 –Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
- 1990 –Margaret Lockwood, British actress (b. 1916)
- 1993 –David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2003 –Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
- 2010 –James E. Akins, American diplomat and advisor to Richard Nixon (b. 1926)
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