Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.

1149 - The rebuilt Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.

1207 – John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.

1240 - Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes at the Battle of the Neva.

1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.

1410 – Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris): power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians.

1482 - Muhammad XII of Granada becomes the 22nd and last Nasrid King of Granada.

1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.

1741 - Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska and sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first European to land in mainland Alaska.

1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.

1799 – Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.

1806 – Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.

1815 – Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.

1834 - The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.

1862 – American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1870 – Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.

1888 – The Bandai volcano in Japan erupts, killing 477 people.

1895 – Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record cricket innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.

1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

1918 – World War I: Second Battle of the Marne – The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.

1922 - The Japanese Communist Party is created in Japan.

1926 – BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.

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

1929 – First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.

1931 – Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.

1945 – US President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.

1953 – John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.

1954 – First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.

1955 - Eighteen Nobel Prize winners sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by 34 others.

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.

1965 - The Mariner 4 sends the first close-up pictures of a planet other than Earth, when it sends pictures from Mars.

1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.

1974 – Christine Chubbock, a TV host in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide during the taping of her show live on air.

1975 – Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.

1977 – Griffith N.S.W, Anti – Drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears presumed murdered.

1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."

1988 – Die Hard opens in theaters, starring Bruce Willis

1989 – Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their sixth album, No Control.

1992 – A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum and several other local businesses in the process. The block was rebuilt and re-opened in 1995.

1994 – Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians caught with a corked bat.

1995 – Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com

1996 – MSNBC cable-DBS channel launched

1996 – A Royal Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. Thirty-two people die in the flames, two people die of their injuries, and Seven people sustain severe burns.

1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.

1999 – Safeco Field opens in Seattle, Washington.

1999 - The first flights from the United Kingdom to Argentina since the Falklands War occur.

2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.

2002 – Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

2004 – Monorail service begins in Las Vegas.

2004 – The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party.

2005 – Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during The Open Championship at Hole 18 at St Andrews, finishing with a birdie.

2005 – Disneyland "re-launches" Space Mountain in Anaheim, California.

2006 - Twitter is launched.

2007 - Shimon Peres becomes President of Israel.

2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes in Northwestern Iran, killing 153 people.

2016 - Sections of the military attempt a coup in Turkey.

2018 - 2018 FIFA World Cup: France defeat first-time finalists Croatia 4-2 in the Final to win their second FIFA World Cup trophy.

2019 - It is announced that Alan Turing will appear on the new 50-pound Bank of England note.