Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 15

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 * 718 – Forces of the Umayyad Caliphate abandoned their year-long siege of Constantinople, ending the Umayyad goal of conquering the Byzantine Empire.
 * 1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles captured and blinded Ibatzes of Bulgaria by means of a ruse, ending the last resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
 * 1038 – Upon the death of his uncle Stephen I, Peter became the second king of Hungary.
 * 1461 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The Empire of Trebizond, the longest-surviving Byzantine successor state, was conquered by Ottoman forces following a month-long siege.
 * 1909 – A military coup against the government of Dimitrios Rallis began in the neighbourhood of Goudi in Athens, Greece.
 * 1942 – World War II: The tanker SS Ohio (1940) reached Malta as part of an operation to deliver much-needed supplies during the siege of Malta.
 * 1944 – World War II: Allied forces began their invasion of southern France.
 * 1947 – Jawaharlal Nehru (pictured) took office as the first prime minister of India, a post he held for 16 years.
 * 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
 * 1975 – Mid-ranking army officers overthrew Bangladesh's founding leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured), killing him and most of his family.
 * 1998 – The Troubles: A car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army killed 29 people and injured approximately 220 others in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
 * 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending more than 28 years of fighting.
 * Born/died this day: | Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos |d|1022|Richard de Vere |b|1385| Eliza Lee Cabot Follen |b|1787| Stephen Breyer |b|1938| Charles Comiskey |b|1859| Gerty Cori |b|1896| Bernard Fanning |b|1969| Ben Affleck |b|1972| Hanna Greally |d|1987| Chief Keef |b|1995| Rosalía Mera |d|2013