Public Holidays on July 15

• 🌍 Democracy and National Unity Day (Turkey)
• 🌍 Demokrasi ve Millî Birlik Günü (Turkey)
• 🌍 Statehood Day (Ukraine)

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Religious Observances on July 15

• Jewish: Rosh Chodesh Av ראש חודש אב
• Islamic: End of the holy months

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On This Day in History — July 15

• 2016 — Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
• 2014 — A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
• 2006 — Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.
• 2003 — AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
• 2002 — "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
• 2002 — Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

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Notable Births on July 15

• 1993 — Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
• 1992 — Tobias Harris, American basketball player
• 1992 — Hokutōfuji Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 — Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
• 1991 — Danilo, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 — Derrick Favors, American basketball player

Notable Deaths on July 15

• 2017 — Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928)
• 2015 — Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938)
• 2015 — Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916)
• 2015 — Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926)
• 2015 — Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933)
• 2014 — Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)

Public Holidays on July 16

• 🌍 Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Chile)
• 🌍 Virgen del Carmen (Chile)

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Religious Observances on July 16

• Hindu: Rath Yatra

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On This Day in History — July 16

• 2015 — Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 2013 — As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
• 2007 — An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
• 2004 — Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
• 1999 — John F. Kennedy Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife and sister-in-law are also killed.
• 1990 — The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.

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Notable Births on July 16

• 1991 — Andros Townsend, English footballer
• 1990 — Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 — Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer
• 1989 — Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
• 1989 — Carlito Olivero, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1988 — Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer

Notable Deaths on July 16

• 2017 — George Romero, American filmmaker (b. 1940)
• 2015 — Jack Goody, English anthropologist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2015 — Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (b. 1919)
• 2015 — Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic (b. 1933)
• 2015 — Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2014 — Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (b. 1920)