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Notable anniversaries in history for today: July 15
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Harrison Birtwistle in Accringto, Lancashire, UK; composer (Trombeau).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jan-Michael Vincent in Denver, Colorado, USA; actor (Hooper, Tribes, Buster and Billie).
- 80th: 1944 - Greenwich Observatory in England damaged by V-1 flying bomb.
- 70th: 1954 - First commercial jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707).
- 60th: 1964 - US Republican Senator for Arizona Barry M Goldwater nominated for US president by Republicans.
- 50th: 1974 - TV news anchor Chris Chubbuck shoots herself in the head with a revolver on live TV, dying 14 hours later, at age 30.
- 40th: 1984 - Hollis Stacy wins her third US women's open golf title.
- 30th: 1994 - (to July 21) The planet Jupiter is hit by 21 large fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
- 30th: 1994 - Microsoft reaches a settlement with the US Department of Justice regarding alleged monopolistic operating system licensing practices. Microsoft agrees to change some of its practices of how it sells its operating systems to vendors in the United States and Europe.
- 30th: 1994 - Fox releases the film True Lies to theaters.
- 15th: 2009 - NASA space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission includes the last piece of Japan's Kibo laboratory, to be attached to the International Space Station during an 11-day stay.
- 15th: 2009 - A Caspian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft on its way from Tehran to Armenia after catching fire in mid-air and crashes into farmland in Iran, killing all 168 people on board.
- 15th: 2009 - Warner Bros. releases the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to theaters.
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