^B{^#!16!15 July^N! Feast day of St Swithin, St Athanasius of Naples, St Bonaventure, St Donald, St Edith of Polesworth, St Barhadbesaba, St David of Munktorp, St Vladimir of Kiev, and St Pompilio Pirrotti.
^B{1099^B} Jerusalem was captured by the Crusaders with troops led by Godfrey and Robert of Flanders and Tancred of Normandy. ^B{1795^B} The ^I{Marseillaise^I}, written by Rouget de Lisle in ^B{1792,^B} was officially adopted as the French national anthem. ^B{1857^B} During the Indian Mutiny, the second Massacre of Cawnpore (now Kanpur) took place, in which 197 English women and children were killed. ^B{1869^B} Margarine was patented by Hippolyte Mege Mouries in Paris. ^B{1948^B} Alcoholics Anonymous, in existence in the US since 1935, was founded in London, UK. ^B{1965^B} US ^I{Mariner^I} transmitted the first close-up pictures of Mars. ^B{1990^B} In an ongoing campaign of violence, separatist Tamil Tigers massacred 168 Muslims in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Inigo Jones, English architect, ^B{1573^B}; Rembrandt, Dutch painter, ^B{1606^B}; Hammond Innes, English novelist, ^B{1913^B}; Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist, ^B{1919^B}; Julian Bream, English guitarist, ^B{1933^B}; Harrison Birtwistle, English composer, ^B{1934^B}; Linda Ronstadt, US singer, ^B{1946^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}General Tom Thumb, circus dwarf, ^B{1883^B}; Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and author, ^B{1904^B}; Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian dramatist and poet, ^B{1929^B}; John Pershing, US soldier, ^B{1948^B}; Paul William Gallico, US writer, ^B{1976^B}; Margaret Mary Lockwood, English film actress, ^B{1990^B}.
