What happend on 15th July

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1958

In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.

1954

First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.

1953

John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.

1945

President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.

1931

Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.

1929

First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.

1927

Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

1926

BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.

1918

World War I: Second Battle of the Marne

1916

In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).