📜 This Day in History
July 15
1410The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald, the decisive engagement of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.- 1815Aboard HMS Bellerophon, French emperor Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, concluding the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1943The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
- 2009Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
- 2012South Korean rapper Psy released his hit single "Gangnam Style".
- 2018Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIFA World Cup final in their defeat to France.
