August 15<\/p>\n
636 \u2013 The armies of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and Rashidun Caliphate engage in their first battle near the Yarmouk river, east of the Sea of Galilee.<\/p>\n
717 \u2013 An army of the Umayyad Caliphate under Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik finally encircles Constantinople beginning a – literally – year long, second siege of the city.<\/p>\n
718 \u2013 The Second Arab Siege of Constantinople ends after desertions in the blockading fleet and attacks by Bulgarian forces from the north allow the city to be resupplied.<\/p>\n
778 \u2013 In retaliation for destroying the city walls of their capital, Pamplona, the army of Charlemagne is attacked by Basque forces at Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees mountains and forced to withdraw. The rear guard including its commander, Roland, is killed while covering the retreat.<\/p>\n
927 \u2013 The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto, Italy, enslaving and deporting to North Africa all the survivors<\/p>\n
982 \u2013 The army of Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens at\u00a0Capo Colonna, Italy.<\/p>\n
1096 \u2013 Pope Urban II declares the start of the First Crusade.<\/p>\n
1237 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the army of the Kingdom of Aragon, under Bernat Guillem I d’Enten\u00e7a, is victorious over the army of the Taifa of Valencia under Zayyan ibn Mardanishat near El Puig Spain.<\/p>\n
1248 \u2013 The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid.<\/p>\n
1281 \u2013 The Mongolian\/Chinese fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a “divine wind” -the Kamikaze- in Hakata Bay, Japan.<\/p>\n
1461 \u2013 The Empire of Trebizond, the last remaining part of the Byzantine Empire,\u00a0 surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II.<\/p>\n
1483 \u2013 Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel in Rome.<\/p>\n
1824 \u2013 The Marquis de Lafayette returns to the U.S. to begin a tour of the 24 states.<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1935 \u2013 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft, a Lockheed Orion Explorer,<\/em> develops engine problems and crashes during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 The U.S. Army’s VI Corps lands on the beaches of the C\u00f4te d’Azur to begin the invasion of southern France<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Even after the Commander of the First Imperial Guards Division, Lieutenant General Takeshi Mori, is killed for refusing to join the conspirators, who then issue false orders in his name, an attempted coup d’\u00e9tat against the Japanese government fails by early morning, when the vast majority of the Imperial Guards remain loyal to Emperor Hirohito. 1947 \u2013 India gains Independence from British rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 The Republic of South Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 President Nixon ends convertibility of the United States dollar into gold<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the “Wow! signal” from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel Military College of South Carolina, but drops out less than a week later.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina<\/em>), a new species of the raccoon family,\u00a0 living in mountain forests in the Andes of western Colombia and Ecuador.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flees the country, along with local residents and foreign nationals,\u00a0 effectively reestablishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 15 636 \u2013 The armies of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and Rashidun Caliphate engage in their first battle near the Yarmouk river, east of the Sea of Galilee. 717 \u2013 An army of the Umayyad Caliphate under Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik finally encircles Constantinople beginning a – literally – year long, second siege of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58142"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95153,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58142\/revisions\/95153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe leaders of the failed coup commit suicide.
\nAfter signing the surrender document the previous night, the Imperial War Minister, General Korechika Anami commits suicide by seppuku.
\nThe recording of Hirohito’s surrender announcement –The Jewel Voice Broadcast<\/em>– is aired as scheduled.<\/p>\n