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August 15
What happened on this day
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Indian Independence Day
79 years ago
Marks India's independence from British rule in 1947.
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Woodstock begins
57 years ago
The legendary music festival opens on a New York dairy farm in 1969.
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Panama Canal opens
112 years ago
The canal opens in 1914 with the passage of the SS Ancon, joining the Atlantic and Pacific across Panama.
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Assumption of Mary
Catholic feast of Mary's bodily assumption into heaven, a public holiday from France and Italy to Chile, Senegal and the Philippines.
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Napoleon born
257 years ago
The Corsican artillery officer who crowned himself Emperor of the French and redrew the map of Europe is born in 1769.
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