15 Mehr 1407

Events

• 1789 (237 years ago) French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
• 1884 (142 years ago) The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen.
• 1934 (92 years ago) Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.
• 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
• 1979 (47 years ago) Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 1987 (39 years ago) Fiji becomes a republic.
• 1990 (36 years ago) Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.

Births

• 1773 (253 years ago) Louis Philippe I of France,
• 1831 (195 years ago) Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1916)
• 1887 (139 years ago) Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (died 1965)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Janet Gaynor, American actress (died 1984)
• 1914 (112 years ago) Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (died 2002)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (died 2000)
• 1931 (95 years ago) Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

Deaths

• 877 (1149 years ago) Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (born 823)
• 1892 (134 years ago) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (born 1809)
• 1912 (114 years ago) Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1829)
• 1951 (75 years ago) Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
• 1981 (45 years ago) Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Bette Davis, American actress (born 1908)
• 2018 (8 years ago) Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (born 1933)
• 2020 (6 years ago) Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955)

All 398 events, births and deaths of October 6