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Day Of The Week: July 15
July 15, 2025 is the 196th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Historical Events: July 15
- 1099 –First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
- 1741 –Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
- 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 –Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 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.
- 1888 –The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
- 1920 –The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
- 1955 –Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- 1975 –Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
- 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
Who were born on July 15?
- 1851 –Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian writer (d. 1889)
- 1892 –Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
- 1934 –Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
- 1935 –Ken Kercheval, American actor
- 1945 –Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
- 1952 –Judy McGrath, American television executive
- 1954 –Giorgos Kaminis, Greek professor of constitutional law and current mayor of Athens
- 1954 –Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer
- 1962 –Steve Brown, American darts player
- 1973 –Kris Holm, Canadian mountain unicycling pioneer
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