Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 15

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 * 1410 – The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald, the decisive engagement of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
 * 1815 – Aboard HMS Bellerophon (1786), French emperor Napoleon (pictured) surrendered to Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, concluding the Napoleonic Wars.
 * 1983 – Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000, was released in Japan.
 * 1983 – Armenian extremist organization ASALA bombed the Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport, killing 8 and injuring 55, as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian genocide.
 * 2016 – The Peace at Home Council, a faction of the Turkish Armed Forces, staged a coup d'état attempt against the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
 * Born/died this day: | Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots|d|1445| Rembrandt|b|1606| Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps|bd|1793; 1884| Manuel Torres|d|1822| Jean-Antoine Houdon|d|1828| Vilfredo Pareto|b|1848| Anton Chekhov|d|1904| Lisa Kahn|b|1921| Nugroho Notosusanto|b|1930| Betty Wagoner|b|1930| Nigel Williams|b|1944| Nina Bari|d|1961| Cherry|b|1975| Donald Mackay |d|1977| Ebrahim Desai|d|2021|

July 15: Marine Day in Japan (2024)


 * 1799 – French soldiers at Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid, uncovered the Rosetta Stone, which was essential in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts.
 * 1870 – Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
 * 1943 – The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
 * 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
 * 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy (pictured) released his hit single "Gangnam Style".