What happend on 15th August

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1999

Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

1998

Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles

1978

Foundation of Mirapuri

1977

The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project.

1975

Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.

1975

Military coup in Bangladesh

1974

Yook Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of the South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.

1973

Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends

1971

President Richard Nixon ends convertibility of U.S. dollar into gold

1969

The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.