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On July 15, -484: Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome.

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Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome.

The Temple of Castor and Pollux was an ancient temple in the Roman Forum, Rome, Central Italy. It was originally built in gratitude for victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus. Castor and Pollux were the Dioscuri, the "twins" of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leda.

People

Born on July 15

Iain Armitage 2008– American actor (born 2008)
JuJu Watkins 2005– American basketball player (born 2005)
Mohamed Sobhy 1999– Egyptian footballer
Noah Gragson 1998– American racing driver (born 1998)
Jil Teichmann 1997– Swiss tennis player (born 1997)
Vivianne Miedema 1996– Dutch footballer (born 1996)
Håvard Nielsen 1993– Norwegian footballer (born 1993)
Harrison Rhodes 1993– American racing driver (born 1993)
Masataka Yoshida 1993– Japanese baseball player (born 1993)
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Tobias Harris 1992– American basketball player (born 1992)
Wayde van Niekerk 1992– South African sprinter (born 1992)
Danilo 1991– Brazilian footballer
Derrick Favors 1991– American basketball player (born 1991)
Evgeny Tishchenko 1991– Russian boxer
Nuria Párrizas Díaz 1991– Spanish tennis player (born 1991)
Olly Alexander 1990– English singer and actor (born 1990)
Zach Bogosian 1990– American ice hockey player (born 1990)
Damian Lillard 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)

People

Died on July 15

Peter R. de Vries Dutch investigative journalist and reporter (1956–2021)
Martin Landau American actor (1928–2017)
Masahiko Aoki Japanese economist (1938–2015)
Wan Li Chinese Communist Party leader (1916–2015)
Aubrey Morris British actor (1926–2015)
Dave Somerville Musical artist
Óscar Acosta Honduran writer, poet, critic, politician and diplomat
James MacGregor Burns American historian and political scientist (1918–2014)
Edward Perl American neuroscientist
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Robert A. Roe American politician (1924–2014)
Ninos Aho Assyrian poet and activist (1945–2013)
Henry Braden American politician (1944–2013)
Tom Greenwell American judge
Earl Gros American football player (1940–2013)
Noël Lee American classical composer
Meskerem Legesse Ethiopian runner
John T. Riedl American computer scientist
Boris Cebotari Moldovan footballer (1975–2012)

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Every July 15 on record

  1. -484 Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome.

    Ancient temple in the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy

    The Temple of Castor and Pollux was an ancient temple in the Roman Forum, Rome, Central Italy. It was originally built in gratitude for victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus. Castor and Pollux were the Dioscuri, the "twins" of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leda.

  2. 70 First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).

    Calendar year

    AD 70 (LXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vespasian and Titus. The denomination AD 70 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  3. 756 An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.

    755–763 uprising against Tang rule in China

    The An Lushan rebellion was a civil war in China that lasted from 755 to 763, at the approximate midpoint of the Tang dynasty (618–907). It began as a commandery rebellion attempting to overthrow and replace the Tang government with the rogue Yan dynasty. The rebels succeeded in capturing the imperial capital Chang'an after the emperor had fled to Sichuan, but eventually succumbed to internal divisions and counterattacks by the Tang and their allies.

  4. 1099 First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.

    1096–1099 Christian re-conquest of the Holy Land

    The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, which were initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. Their aim was to return the Holy Land—which had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century—to Christian rule. By the 11th century, although Jerusalem had then been ruled by Muslims for hundreds of years, the practices of the Seljuk rulers in the region began to threaten local Christian populations, pilgrimages from the West and the Byzantine Empire itself.

  5. 1149 The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.

    Church in Jerusalem

    The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church is simultaneously the seat of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and the Catholic Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. It is the holiest site in Christianity and it has been an important pilgrimage site for Christians since the fourth century.

  6. 1207 King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
  7. 1240 Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
  8. 1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
  9. 1410 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
  10. 1482 Muhammad XI is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
  11. 1640 The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
  12. 1738 Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitsyn are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
  13. 1741 Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
  14. 1789 French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
  15. 1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
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  1. 1806 Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
  2. 1815 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
  3. 1823 A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
  4. 1834 The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
  5. 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.
  6. 1849 The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice
  7. 1862 American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself.
  8. 1870 Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  9. 1870 Canadian Confederation: 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 Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
  10. 1888 The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
  11. 1910 In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  12. 1916 In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
  13. 1918 World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
  14. 1920 Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
  15. 1922 The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.

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