On 15th July 1606
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch artist was Born, at Leiden, Netherlands.
On 15th July 1883
Circus performer Charles Stratton, known to the world as General Tom Thumb, died at age 45.
On 15th July 1912
American Jim Thorpe won a gold medal for the decathlon at the Olympics in Stockholm; he also captured a gold medal for the pentathlon.
On 15th July 1939
Ali Khamenei, Rahbar of Iran was born
On 15th July 1946
Linda Ronstadt, American singer was born
On 15th July 1965
Mariner 4, an uncrewed space probe launched by NASA in 1964, flew by Mars and returned close-up pictures of its surface, the pictures proving that the planet’s rumoured canals were actually illusions.
On 15th July 1978
American singer-songwriterBob Dylan performed in England before 200,000 people.
On 15th July 1988
The thriller Die Hard was first released in U.S. theatres, launching a hugely popular series and helping establish Bruce Willis as an action star
On 15th July 1997
Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
On 15th July 2006
Cofounders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone publicly launched their online microblogging service Twitter, and within the following decade it had more than 300 million users.
