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This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history.
History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past.
It is important to know dates and events in the past.
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August 15th, 2007 | Event | An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. |
August 15th, 2007 | Death | John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (born in 1918) |
August 15th, 2007 | Death | Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (born in 1908) |
August 15th, 2006 | Death | Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (born in 1931) |
August 15th, 2004 | Death | Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (born in 1910) |
August 15th, 2004 | Death | Sune Bergstrom, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1916) |
August 15th, 2004 | Death | Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (born in 1941) |
August 15th, 2003 | Death | Gosta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (born in 1957) |
August 15th, 2001 | Death | Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (born in 1972) |
August 15th, 1999 | Event | Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. |
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