Shimla, Aug 15 Keekli Bureau
2013
Scientists at the Smithsonian announced the discovery of the olinguito, “the first carnivore species to be discovered in the American continents in 35 years”; the small arboreal animals live in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador.
1998
A car bomb exploded in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killing 29 people and leaving more than 200 injured; the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), an IRA splinter group, claimed responsibility for the bombing, which was the deadliest attack in Northern Ireland since the eruption of violence there in the late 1960s.
1979
After a troubled production, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now was released in theatres, and it became a film classic, noted for performances by Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall, whose character famously says that he loves “the smell of napalm in the morning.”
1971
Bahrain proclaimed independence from the United Kingdom.
1960
The Republic of the Congo gained independence from France.
1948
Syngman Rhee announced the establishment of the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
1947
After three decades, the Indian independence movement, led by Mohandas Gandhi, achieved its goal on this day in 1947 as a free and independent India was established, ending nearly 200 years of British rule.
1935
American entertainer Will Rogers and aviation pioneer Wiley Post were killed in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.
1914
After some 10 years of work, the Panama Canal opened to ships.
1879
Actress Ethel Barrymore, who was considered the “first lady” of the American theatre, was born in Philadelphia.
1534
St. Ignatius of Loyola led companions, who would become cofounders of the Jesuit order, to Montmartre, Paris, where the first Jesuits took their vows.
1057
Macbeth, king of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, eldest son of Duncan I.
