2021-07-15

Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their defeat to France.

The Peace at Home Council, a faction of the Turkish Armed Forces, staged a coup d'état attempt against the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

South Korean rapper Psy (pictured) released his hit single "Gangnam Style".

Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.

A .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw 7.8 earthquake struck a remote region of Fiordland, New Zealand, the country's largest earthquake magnitude since the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.

Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000 (pictured), was released in Japan.

The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.

Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.

Aboard HMS Bellerophon, French emperor Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, concluding the Napoleonic Wars.

French soldiers at Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid, uncovered the Rosetta Stone, which was essential in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts.