On This Day
15 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1903 Kamaraj, the veteran politician and reformist leader, was born.
- 1926 Buses were introduced for the first time in the Indian city of Bombay (now Mumbai).
- 1933 M. T. Vasudevan Nair, author and screenwriter, was born.
- 2010 India unveiled a symbol for its rupee currency that it hopes will become as globally recognized as signs for the dollar, the yen, the pound and the euro. The symbol was designed by research student D Udaya Kumar.
- 2011 Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched GSAT-12A from Sriharikota through PSLV C-17.
- 2016 UNESCO put four new sites on its World Heritage List. The new sites, announced in Istanbul, include China's Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape, Iran's ancient aqueducts known as Qanat, and India's archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara. The World Heritage Committee also selected Micronesia's artificial islets of Nan Madol and simultaneously placed it on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1606 Rembrandt, Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman, was born in Leiden, Netherlands. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.
- 1799 The Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian rock inscribed with a decree by King Ptolemy V was found in the Egyptian port city of Rashid (Rosetta) by French Captain Pierre Bouchard.
- 1904 Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time, died of tuberculosis. Chekhov wrote his play The Cherry Orchard the same year.
- 1975 The Russian Soyuz and the U.S. Apollo launched. The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first international manned spaceflight.
- 1994 Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. It was the first time in recorded history that Astronomers had observed a collision between two celestial objects.
- 2006 The online microblogging site Twitter was launched.
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