and August 15, November 15, February 17, and May 15, ( Cranston ).

* India got independence on 15 August 1947.

* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* Indian Independence day on August 15

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

** August 15 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

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Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

The damaged sections of the Pentagon were rebuilt in 2002, with occupants moving back into the completed areas on August 15, 2002.

On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.

* California boosts tax on ' alcopops ', Associated Press, August 15, 2007.

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

The first wave of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) moved to Bletchley Park on 15 August 1939.

On 7 August, therefore, the first of Baden's 15, 000 Imperial troops ( the remainder following two days later ) left Marlborough's main force to besiege the heavily defended city of Ingolstadt, farther down the Danube.

During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011, Radio 1 ended each day of the festival from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 August with the Fun & Filth Cabaret.

They married in Lubbock on August 15, 1958, less than two months later.

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.

* Sergio Pignedoli ( 30 June 1979 – 15 June 1980 )

* 1979 – The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

After " Get Up Offa That Thing ", thirteen of Brown's late 1970s recordings for Polydor, failed to reach the Top 10 of the R & B chart, with only " Body Heat " in 1976 and the disco-oriented " It's Too Funky in Here " in 1979 reaching the R & B Top 15 and the ballad " Kiss in ' 77 " reaching the Top 20.

Kenyan population was reported as 38. 6 million in 2009, compared to in 28. 7 million in 1999, 21. 4 million in 1989 and 15. 3 million 1979, an increase by a factor of 2. 5 over 30 years, or an average growth of more than 3 % per year.

Plunkett was signed by Oakland to be their backup quarterback, and thus he did not see much playing time, throwing no passes in 1978 and just 15 passes in 1979.

In the 1979 Fastnet race, in a storm that killed 15 participants, he skippered Tenacious to a corrected-time victory.

* Germs interview from Flipside No. 15, 1979 at Punk Zine Archive

* December 15 – Bernard L. Austin, American admiral ( d. 1979 )

* April 15 – 1979 Montenegro Earthquake: A major earthquake ( 7. 0 on the Richter scale ) strikes Montenegro ( then part of Yugoslavia ) and parts of Albania, causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives ; the old town of Budva is devastated.

* September 15 – Jean Renoir, French film director ( d. 1979 )

The race started at 12: 15 pm ( EST ) from 1979 until 2000.

Ronald Binge ( 15 July 19106 September 1979 ) was a British composer and arranger of light music.

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As a result of Hurricane David, production hit a low of 15, 700 tons in 1979.

* The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world.

A partial census conducted in 1979 showed roughly 15. 5 million people living in the country.

* Lieutenant général aviator Albert Crekillie ( 15. 03. 1972-31. 10. 1979 )

Image: Mount Marcy New York USGS topo map 1979. JPG | The same area about a century later ( 1979 ) in a 7. 5 by 15 minute metric map at 1: 25, 000.

The party won 150, 000 votes in the Basque Country ( 15 %) and 22, 000 additional votes in Navarre ( 9 %) in its first Spanish general election in March 1979.

They first stood in 1979 obtaining their best results in the Basque autonomous community where they polled 15 % and won 3 seats.

On April 14, 1979, the Afghan government requested that the USSR send 15 to 20 helicopters with their crews to Afghanistan, and on June 16, the Soviet government responded and sent a detachment of tanks, BMPs, and crews to guard the government in Kabul and to secure the Bagram and Shindand airfields.

Between December 25, 1979, and February 15, 1989, a total of 620, 000 soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan ( though there were only 80, 000 – 104, 000 serving at one time ): 525, 000 in the Army, 90, 000 with border troops and other KGB sub-units, 5, 000 in independent formations of MVD Internal Troops, and police forces.

After several impact studies, the freeway was completed from Exit 15 to Exit 30 in 1979, and the portion from Exits 11 – 12 in 1987.