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August 15th, 2007	Event	An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
August 15th, 1999	Event	Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
August 15th, 1998	Event	Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
August 15th, 1995	Event	In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel, but drops out in less than a week.
August 15th, 1984	Event	PKK, Kurdish people in Turkey gain arms and start a Guerrilla warfare campaign against the Turkish military
August 15th, 1977	Event	The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project.
August 15th, 1975	Event	Military coup in Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman killed along with all family members, except Haseena Wajid.
August 15th, 1975	Event	Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
August 15th, 1974	Event	Seoul Subway Line 1 opened, between Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station
August 15th, 1974	Event	Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.

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