Right this moment is Tuesday, July 15, the 196th day of 2024. There are 169 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On July 15, 1799, the Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering historic Egyptian scripts, was discovered at Fort Julien within the Nile Delta throughout the Napoleonic marketing campaign in Egypt.
Additionally on this date:
In 1834, the Spanish Inquisition was abolished greater than 350 years after its creation.
In 1870, Georgia turned the final Accomplice state to be readmitted to the Union.
In 1913, Democrat Augustus Bacon of Georgia turned the primary individual elected to the U.S. Senate beneath the phrases of the lately ratified seventeenth Modification to the U.S. Structure, offering for common election of senators.
In 1916, The Boeing Firm, initially often called Pacific Aero Merchandise Co., was based in Seattle.
In 1975, three American astronauts blasted off aboard an Apollo spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts have been launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the 2 ships in orbit.
In 1976, a 36-hour kidnap ordeal started for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they have been kidnapped close to Chowchilla, California, by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. (The captives escaped unhurt; the abductors have been caught.)
In 1996, MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news community, made its debut on cable and the web.
In 1997, dressmaker Gianni Versace, 50, was shot lifeless outdoors his Miami Seaside residence; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan (koo-NAN’-an), 27, was discovered lifeless eight days later, a suicide. (Investigators believed Cunanan killed 4 different folks earlier than Versace in a cross-country rampage that started the earlier March.)
In 2002, John Walker Lindh, an American who’d fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded responsible in federal court docket in Alexandria, Virginia, to 2 felonies in a deal sparing him life in jail.
In 2006, Twitter (now often called X) was launched to the general public.
In 2019, avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. was sentenced by a state court docket to life in jail plus 419 years for killing one and injuring dozens when he intentionally drove his automotive right into a crowd of anti-racism protesters throughout a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (The earlier month, Fields obtained a life sentence on 29 federal hate crime prices.)
In 2020, George Floyd’s household filed a lawsuit towards town of Minneapolis and the 4 law enforcement officials charged in his loss of life, alleging the officers violated Floyd’s rights once they restrained him and that town allowed a tradition of extreme pressure, racism and impunity to flourish in its police pressure. (The town would comply with pay $27 million to settle the lawsuit in March 2021.)
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Actor Patrick Wayne is 86.
- R&B singer Millie Jackson is 81.
- Singer Linda Ronstadt is 79.
- Writer Richard Russo is 76.
- Musician Trevon Horn is 76.
- Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Put up, is 75.
- Former skilled wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura is 74.
- Actor Terry O’Quinn (TV: “Misplaced”) is 73.
- Rock drummer Marky Ramone is 73.
- Rock musician Joe Satriani is 69.
- Mannequin Kim Alexis is 65.
- Actor Willie Aames is 65.
- Actor-director Forest Whitaker is 64.
- Actor Brigitte Nielsen is 62.
- Rock drummer Jason Bonham is 59.
- TV persona Adam Savage (TV” “MythBusters”) is 58.
- Actor-comedian Eddie Griffin is 57.
- Actor-screenwriter Jim Rash (TV: “Neighborhood”) is 53.
- Actor Scott Foley is 53.
- Actor Brian Austin Inexperienced is 52.
- Singer Buju Banton is 52.
- Actor Diane Kruger is 49.
- Actor Lana Parrilla (LAH’-nuh pa-REE’-uh) is 48.
- Actor Travis Fimmel is 46.
- Actor-singer Tristan “Mack” Wilds is 36.
- Actor Iain Armitage (TV: “Younger Sheldon”) is 17.