August 15th
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- 1620
The Mayflower sets sail from Southampton, England, with 102 Pilgrims View Post →
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- 1635
The first recorded North American hurricane hits the Plymouth Colony
- 1843
Tivoli Gardens amusement park opens in Copenhagen; it's the world's second oldest
- 1914
The Panama Canal opens under budget, with the SS Ancon making the first official passage
- 1914
The Taliesin Massacre occurs in Spring Green, Wisconsin
- 1931
Ernest Lassy completes the longest canoe journey without portage, spanning 6,102 miles
- 1939
The movie 'The Wizard of Oz' premieres in Hollywood
- 1950
An 8.6-magnitude earthquake in Assam-Tibet kills several thousand
- 1961
The Berlin Wall is built
- 1969
The Woodstock festival opens in Bethel, New York
- 1977
The 'Wow' signal, a possible alien radio signal from deep space, is received at 'The Big Ear', Ohio State's radio telescope
- 2007
An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of Peru kills 514 and injures 1,090
- 2008
Lee Berger and his son discover the two-million-year-old fossils of a new species of human ancestor (Australopithecus sediba) at Malapa Cave, South Africa
- 2015
North Korea begins using Pyongyang Time (UTC+08:30) as a rejection of Japanese imperialism
- 2017
A genetic study of the apple, published in 'Nature Communications', reveals its origin to be Kazakhstan
