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Events on July 15

• 1099 The crusader army of the First Crusade captures Jerusalem after a one-month siege and kills almost the entire population of the city.
• 1683 The Second Siege of Vienna begins after the city commander, Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, has refused to surrender the city.
• 1799 The Rosetta Stone is discovered in the Nile Valley near Rosetta by Pierre François Xavier Bouchard, an officer of Napoleon.
• 1927 Following a scandalous verdict, the Vienna Palace of Justice is stormed and set on fire.
• 1937 The Buchenwald concentration camp begins operations on the Ettersberg near Weimar.
• 1955 The first documenta is opened in Kassel.
• 1963 Egon Bahr delivers his famous speech “Change Through Rapprochement” at the Evangelical Academy Tutzing.
• 1965 The American space probe Mariner 4 flies past Mars and provides the first close-up images of another planet.
• 1975 With the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the first joint space mission of the USA and the Soviet Union is launched.
• 1997 Jan Ullrich wins the Pyrenees stage of the Tour de France to Arcalis (Andorra) and takes the lead in the general classification. He thereby lays the foundation for the first Tour victory by a German.
• 2016 Parts of the Turkish military attempt an unsuccessful coup against the Turkish government, consisting of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Yıldırım cabinet. According to official figures, 249 people are killed and more than 2000 are injured.
• 2018 France defeats Croatia 4:2 in the World Cup final and wins the World Cup title for the second time after 1998.

Born on July 15

• 1860 Max von Oppenheim, German diplomat and archaeologist
• 1885 Josef Frank, Austrian architect
• 1892 Walter Benjamin, German writer and philosopher
• 1904 Rudolf Arnheim, German-American art psychologist
• 1930 Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
• 1950 Arianna Huffington, Greek-American nonfiction author and journalist
• 1961 Forest Whitaker, American actor, producer, and director
• 1973 Brian Austin Green, American actor
• 1990 Damian Lillard, American basketball player
• 1991 Danilo, Brazilian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „15. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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