1015 Vladimir the Great of Russia died on July 15, 1015. He was confronted with the choice of converting Russia to Christianity or to Islam. Vladimir eventually chose Christianity, because of Islamic teaching on alcohol, saying, "Drinking is the joy of all Rus'. We cannot exist without that pleasure."
1606 The artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on July 15, 1606 in Leiden in the Dutch Republic, now the Netherlands. In 1621 Rembrandt to dedicate himself fully to painting. His parents apprenticed him to a history artist, Jacob van Swanenburgh in his home town of Leiden, with whom he spent three years. After a brief but important apprenticeship in Amsterdam, Rembrandt opened a studio in Leiden.
1661 The first banknotes in Europe were issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco on July 15, 1661.These banknotes became popular very quickly simply as they were much easier to carry than the large copper daler, especially for making large payments (a note could be sent in an envelope - previously the large coins had to be transported by horse and cart).
1662 When the Royal Society was chartered by King Charles II of England on July 15, 1662, it was the first scientific society in history. The society grew out of the meetings of the "Invisible College" who gathered in the late 1640s at the home of the chemist Robert Boyle's favorite sister, Katherine. She supported the Parliamentarians (and Puritans) in the revolt against Charles I. Of deep intelligence herself, Boyle welcomed the group into her house so that she might share the new findings.
1732 The first Governor of the Bahamas was a former English sea captain and privateer named Woodes Rogers (ca. 1679 – July 15, 1732). He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
1741 On July 15, 1741, men sailing under the command of Russian navigator and captain Alexei Chirikov made the first European landfall in Alaska. Chirikov saw land at what now is western Prince of Wales Island in the extreme south of Alaska—just off the coast of present British Columbia and anchored off what now is Cape Addington.
1783 The first steam-powered ship was a paddle steamer named Pyroscaphe built in France in 1783 by Marquis Claude de Jouffroy. It was powered by a Newcomen steam engine. At its first demonstration on July 15, 1783, Pyroscaphe traveled upstream on the River Saône for some fifteen minutes before the engine failed.
1799 The Rosetta Stone is a large black stone stele bearing a translation of Ancient Egyptian text, the first recovered in modern times. It was taken from building material in Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta when it was rediscovered on July 15, 1799 during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. Weighing nearly one ton, the Rosetta Stone is inscribed with three versions of a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of King Ptolemy V.
1838 On July 15, 1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacted with outrage.
1858 Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst was born Emmeline Goulden on July 15, 1858 in the Manchester suburb of Moss Side. Her father was a prosperous Calico printer with radical sympathies. A pretty, spirited girl, when she was small, Emmeline was consuming the Odyssey, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Pilgrim's Progress and abolitionist materials. Emmeline's earliest memories included hearing US suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak.
1869 Margarine was created on July 15, 1869 by the French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès. He invented it in response to a commission by the Emperor Louis Napoleon III for the production of a cooking fat for the French navy that would be cheap and keep well. To formulate his entry, Mège-Mouriès used a fatty acid component margaric acid, hence its name – margarine. He added skimmed milk and water and a strip of udder to mimic the way butter fat forms in a calf's udder.
1871 Civil engineer James Newlands died on July 15, 1871. Newlands designed and implemented the world's first integrated sewer system in Liverpool. The sewer construction program began in July 1848 and was completed in 1869. Before the sewers were built, life expectancy in Liverpool was just 19 years, and by the time Newlands retired it had more than doubled.
1876 The first shut out in baseball was achieved on July 15, 1876 when St. Louis Brown Stocking pitcher George W. Bradley allowed no hits to the Hartford Dark Blues team. George Bradley pitched 16 shutouts in 1876, which still stands as the Major League record (currently tied with Pete Alexander who pitched the same number in 1916). Bradley’s nickname was “Grin,” which came from the constant smile he showed to batters as he pitched.
1903 The Ford Motor Company sold its first car on July 15, 1903 to a Chicago dentist named Pfennig. An $850 two-cylinder Model A automobile with a tonneau (or backseat), the car was delivered to Dr. Pfenning just over a week later.
1910 Emil Kraepelin identified Alzheimer's disease in his book Clinical Psychiatry on July 15, 1910.
Alzheimer's disease, a pre-senile dementia, was given its first full public clinical and pathological description, by a German neurologist Dr. Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer on November 3, 1906, at the Tubingen meeting of the Southwest German Psychiatrists. The symptoms of the disease were first identified by his colleague Emil Kraepelin on July 15, 1910 in his book Clinical Psychiatry.
1916 William Edward Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products in Seattle, Washington on July 15, 1916. It later became the Boeing Aircraft company. This first Boeing airplane was assembled in a lakeside hangar located on the northeast shore of Seattle's Lake Union. (Replica below). Many of Boeing's early planes were seaplanes.
1922 The first platypus specimen arrived in England in 1799. The skin of a dead platypus was sent, so biologists could study it. George Shaw wrote the first written description of the duck-billed platypus in the Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799. Thinking no creature could look so strange, he thought it had been made up from pieces of different animals. On July 15, 1922, a duck-billed platypus arrived at the Bronx Zoo in New York. It was the first living platypus to leave Australia.
1940 The tallest giant of all time in the world, Robert Wadlow, was 8 feet eleven inches tall (2.72 meters). Wadlow died at the age of 22, on July 15, 1940, due to an infection caused by leg braces he needed to be able to stand on his feet. Wadlow was asked if it bothers him that people stare, and he answered "No, I just overlook them."
1979 President Jimmy Carter gave his so-called malaise speech on July 15, 1979, where he characterized 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." He never actually used the word 'malaise.'
1990 In a May 2015 interview with the Argentinian newspaper La Voz del Pueblo, Pope Francis said he hasn't watched television since July 15, 1990. In the interview, Pope Francis said that he made the decision to stop watching television after making a promise to the Virgin Mary. He said that he felt that television was a distraction from his spiritual life, and that he wanted to focus on his relationship with God.
2000 The record attendance for a rugby union game was set on July 15, 2000 when New Zealand defeated Australia 39–35 in a Bledisloe Cup game at Stadium Australia in Sydney before 109,874 fans. Later that year, the stadium became the largest venue ever used for an Olympic Games.
2017 Stevie Wonder tied the knot for the third time on the July 15-16, 2017 weekend, this time with his longtime girlfriend Tomeeka Bracy. Wonder's nine children from five different relationships served as their father and new stepmother's groomsmen and bridesmaids.
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| The Baptism of Saint Prince Vladimir, by Viktor Vasnetsov (1890) |
1606 The artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on July 15, 1606 in Leiden in the Dutch Republic, now the Netherlands. In 1621 Rembrandt to dedicate himself fully to painting. His parents apprenticed him to a history artist, Jacob van Swanenburgh in his home town of Leiden, with whom he spent three years. After a brief but important apprenticeship in Amsterdam, Rembrandt opened a studio in Leiden.
1661 The first banknotes in Europe were issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco on July 15, 1661.These banknotes became popular very quickly simply as they were much easier to carry than the large copper daler, especially for making large payments (a note could be sent in an envelope - previously the large coins had to be transported by horse and cart).
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| The first paper money in Europe, issued by the Stockholms Banco |
1662 When the Royal Society was chartered by King Charles II of England on July 15, 1662, it was the first scientific society in history. The society grew out of the meetings of the "Invisible College" who gathered in the late 1640s at the home of the chemist Robert Boyle's favorite sister, Katherine. She supported the Parliamentarians (and Puritans) in the revolt against Charles I. Of deep intelligence herself, Boyle welcomed the group into her house so that she might share the new findings.
1732 The first Governor of the Bahamas was a former English sea captain and privateer named Woodes Rogers (ca. 1679 – July 15, 1732). He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
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| Rogers' son presents his governor father with plans for the port of Nassau |
1741 On July 15, 1741, men sailing under the command of Russian navigator and captain Alexei Chirikov made the first European landfall in Alaska. Chirikov saw land at what now is western Prince of Wales Island in the extreme south of Alaska—just off the coast of present British Columbia and anchored off what now is Cape Addington.
1783 The first steam-powered ship was a paddle steamer named Pyroscaphe built in France in 1783 by Marquis Claude de Jouffroy. It was powered by a Newcomen steam engine. At its first demonstration on July 15, 1783, Pyroscaphe traveled upstream on the River Saône for some fifteen minutes before the engine failed.
1799 The Rosetta Stone is a large black stone stele bearing a translation of Ancient Egyptian text, the first recovered in modern times. It was taken from building material in Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta when it was rediscovered on July 15, 1799 during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. Weighing nearly one ton, the Rosetta Stone is inscribed with three versions of a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of King Ptolemy V.
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| The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.By © Hans Hillewaert, |
1838 On July 15, 1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacted with outrage.
1858 Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst was born Emmeline Goulden on July 15, 1858 in the Manchester suburb of Moss Side. Her father was a prosperous Calico printer with radical sympathies. A pretty, spirited girl, when she was small, Emmeline was consuming the Odyssey, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Pilgrim's Progress and abolitionist materials. Emmeline's earliest memories included hearing US suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak.
1869 Margarine was created on July 15, 1869 by the French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès. He invented it in response to a commission by the Emperor Louis Napoleon III for the production of a cooking fat for the French navy that would be cheap and keep well. To formulate his entry, Mège-Mouriès used a fatty acid component margaric acid, hence its name – margarine. He added skimmed milk and water and a strip of udder to mimic the way butter fat forms in a calf's udder.
1871 Civil engineer James Newlands died on July 15, 1871. Newlands designed and implemented the world's first integrated sewer system in Liverpool. The sewer construction program began in July 1848 and was completed in 1869. Before the sewers were built, life expectancy in Liverpool was just 19 years, and by the time Newlands retired it had more than doubled.
1876 The first shut out in baseball was achieved on July 15, 1876 when St. Louis Brown Stocking pitcher George W. Bradley allowed no hits to the Hartford Dark Blues team. George Bradley pitched 16 shutouts in 1876, which still stands as the Major League record (currently tied with Pete Alexander who pitched the same number in 1916). Bradley’s nickname was “Grin,” which came from the constant smile he showed to batters as he pitched.
1903 The Ford Motor Company sold its first car on July 15, 1903 to a Chicago dentist named Pfennig. An $850 two-cylinder Model A automobile with a tonneau (or backseat), the car was delivered to Dr. Pfenning just over a week later.
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| Ford 1903 Model A By DougW at English Wikipedia |
1910 Emil Kraepelin identified Alzheimer's disease in his book Clinical Psychiatry on July 15, 1910.
Alzheimer's disease, a pre-senile dementia, was given its first full public clinical and pathological description, by a German neurologist Dr. Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer on November 3, 1906, at the Tubingen meeting of the Southwest German Psychiatrists. The symptoms of the disease were first identified by his colleague Emil Kraepelin on July 15, 1910 in his book Clinical Psychiatry.
1916 William Edward Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products in Seattle, Washington on July 15, 1916. It later became the Boeing Aircraft company. This first Boeing airplane was assembled in a lakeside hangar located on the northeast shore of Seattle's Lake Union. (Replica below). Many of Boeing's early planes were seaplanes.
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| Replica of Boeing's first plane, the Boeing Model 1, at the Museum of Flight |
1922 The first platypus specimen arrived in England in 1799. The skin of a dead platypus was sent, so biologists could study it. George Shaw wrote the first written description of the duck-billed platypus in the Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799. Thinking no creature could look so strange, he thought it had been made up from pieces of different animals. On July 15, 1922, a duck-billed platypus arrived at the Bronx Zoo in New York. It was the first living platypus to leave Australia.
1940 The tallest giant of all time in the world, Robert Wadlow, was 8 feet eleven inches tall (2.72 meters). Wadlow died at the age of 22, on July 15, 1940, due to an infection caused by leg braces he needed to be able to stand on his feet. Wadlow was asked if it bothers him that people stare, and he answered "No, I just overlook them."
1979 President Jimmy Carter gave his so-called malaise speech on July 15, 1979, where he characterized 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." He never actually used the word 'malaise.'
1990 In a May 2015 interview with the Argentinian newspaper La Voz del Pueblo, Pope Francis said he hasn't watched television since July 15, 1990. In the interview, Pope Francis said that he made the decision to stop watching television after making a promise to the Virgin Mary. He said that he felt that television was a distraction from his spiritual life, and that he wanted to focus on his relationship with God.
2000 The record attendance for a rugby union game was set on July 15, 2000 when New Zealand defeated Australia 39–35 in a Bledisloe Cup game at Stadium Australia in Sydney before 109,874 fans. Later that year, the stadium became the largest venue ever used for an Olympic Games.
2017 Stevie Wonder tied the knot for the third time on the July 15-16, 2017 weekend, this time with his longtime girlfriend Tomeeka Bracy. Wonder's nine children from five different relationships served as their father and new stepmother's groomsmen and bridesmaids.
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