Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 15
This is a list of selected July 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Alexander Nevsky Fighting the Swedes -
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Eruption of Mount Bandai
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1806 – The Pike expedition, led by Zebulon Pike to explore the Louisiana Territory, began near St. Louis, Missouri. | refimprove |
| 1823 – A fire, accidentally started by a workman who was repairing the lead of the roof, destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The church was restored by 1840. | needs more footnotes |
| 1888 – The volcano Mount Bandai erupted, killing at least 470 people in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. | needs more footnotes |
| 1974 – Greek-sponsored nationalists overthrew Makarios III, President of Cyprus, in a coup d'état and replaced him with Nikos Sampson. | Makarios needs more footnotes; Sampson needs more refs |
| 1997 – Serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan gunned down fashion designer Gianni Versace outside his home in Miami, Florida. | refimprove |
| 2003 – The non-profit Mozilla Foundation was founded to ensure the open-source Mozilla project would survive after AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape Communications. | both tagged refimprove |
Eligible
- 1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky (icon pictured) defeated the Swedes on the Neva River near Ust-Izhora, present-day Russia.
- 1870 – Manitoba and the Northwest Territories were established following the transfer of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada.
- 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 153 aboard.
July 15: Festino of Saint Rosalia in Palermo, Italy; Chūgen/Bon Festival in Japan
- 1410 – The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Grunwald, the decisive engagement of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
- 1799 – French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone (pictured) in Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid.
- 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
- 1959 – Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike, closing nearly every steel mill in the country.
- 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
- 1983 – Armenian militant organization ASALA bombed the Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian Genocide.