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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