July 15 birthdays & history

Famous people born on July 15

• 1606Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher
• 1930Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic
• 1892Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic
• 1946Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
• 1858Emmeline Pankhurst, English political activist and suffragist
• 1848Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist
• 1961Forest Whitaker, American actor
• 1976Diane Kruger, German actress and model
• 1919Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish British novelist and philosopher
• 1922Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on July 15

• 484 BCDedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome.
• 1149The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
• 1482Muhammad XI is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
• 1640The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
• 1870Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
• 1922The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
• 1975Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
• 1979U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
• 1983Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000, was released in Japan.
• 2003AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
• 2006Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
• 2009Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.

Also observed on July 15

• Feast of Saint Rosalia (Palermo, Sicily)
• Meänmaa Flag Day (Meänmaa)
• Statehood Day (Ukraine)