July 15
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| 1944 July 15 Mrs. [[Irene Morgan]] arrested for not giving up Greyhound seat to white passenger on a ride from Virginia to Maryland (leads to 1946 Supreme Court ... | 1944 July 15 Mrs. [[Irene Morgan]] arrested for not giving up Greyhound seat to white passenger on a ride from Virginia to Maryland (leads to 1946 Supreme Court ... | ||
| - | [[Jacques Derrida]] (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop ... | ||
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| - | [[Rudolf Arnheim]] (born July 15, 1904) is a German author and theorist of Gestalt perception. His major work is Art and Visual Perception, published in 1954. ... | ||
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| - | [[Trevor Horn]], born July 15, 1949 in Durham, England, is a pop music producer and musician. After playing double bass in big bands and producing little-known ... | ||
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| - | 1540 - July 15, 1614) was a French historian and biographer. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Bourdeille,_seigneur_de_Brant%C3%B4me [Dec 2005] ... | ||
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Art and culture
- 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
- 1799 - Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
- 1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 1972 - “Modern architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3:32 pm when the infamous Pruitt-Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.” -- Charles Jencks
- 1995 - First item sold on Amazon.com
- 1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
Births
- 1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
- 1892 - Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
- 1904 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author
- 1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1933 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
- 1949 - Trevor Horn, British music producer, bassist and vocalist
- 1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer, and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
Deaths
- 1609 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
- 1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer
- 1890 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
- 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
- 1933 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
- 1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
- 1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
Notes
1944 July 15 Mrs. Irene Morgan arrested for not giving up Greyhound seat to white passenger on a ride from Virginia to Maryland (leads to 1946 Supreme Court ...
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