July 15

People born on this day are Cancer.

On this day in history01

1979
U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
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1983
Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective releases of the Famicom and SG-1000 in Japan.
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1996
A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
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1998
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
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2002
"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
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2003
AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
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2006
Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
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2009
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
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2009
Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.
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2014
A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
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2016
Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
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2018
France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.
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