1920 Polish troops commanded by Józef Piłsudski defeat the Soviets at the Battle of Warsaw (Miracle upon the Vistula)
1942 SS Ohio enters Grand Harbour of Malta – Malta was on the verge of starvation and days away from a possible surrender to the Axis forces led by Nazi Germany. But a last-ditch, high-risk effort to supply the island with direly needed fuel and food paid off, despite heavy losses, when the American tanker, the SS Ohio, was towed into Grand Harbour at 9.30am on 15 August, to cheering crowds.
1947 India becomes a sovereign and democratic nation, independent from the United Kingdom
1950 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1971 US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
1979 “Apocalypse Now”, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen, is released (Palme d’Or 1979)
1989 F. W. de Klerk becomes President of South Africa
1995 “Macarena” single is released by Los del Rio
1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, kills 29 people and injures about 220
2017 Barack Obama’s tweet “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…” in response to Charlottesville violence becomes most-liked tweet ever
