15 Mehr 1385

Events

• 1864 (162 years ago) American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
• 1949 (77 years ago) The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
• 1950 (76 years ago) Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
• 1979 (47 years ago) Swissair Flight 316 crashes at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, killing 14.
• 2004 (22 years ago) Three bombs explode at Taba and Nuweiba in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, killing 34.
• 2022 (4 years ago) Ales Bialiatski, along with two organisations, Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties, are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2023 (3 years ago) Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel, which results in the deaths of around 1,200, mostly civilians, and the taking of 251 hostages, including civilians and soldiers.

Births

• 1885 (141 years ago) Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
• 1888 (138 years ago) Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (died 1965)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Heinrich Himmler, Nazi politician, head of the SS and senior official responsible for the Holocaust (died 1945)
• 1931 (95 years ago) Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
• 1952 (74 years ago) Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia
• 1967 (59 years ago) María Corina Machado, Venezuelan Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1968 (58 years ago) Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1988 (38 years ago) Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer

Deaths

• 336 (1690 years ago) Mark, pope of the Catholic Church
• 929 (1097 years ago) Charles the Simple, French king (born 879)
• 1708 (318 years ago) Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh guru (born 1666)
• 1849 (177 years ago) Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (born 1809)
• 1894 (132 years ago) Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (born 1809)
• 1967 (59 years ago) Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Anna Politkovskaya, American-Russian journalist and activist (born 1958)
• 2020 (6 years ago) Mario Molina, Mexican chemist (born 1943)

All 430 events, births and deaths of October 7