This Day in History

August 15th in History

The Panama Canal opens! In other news, the Beatles play Shea Stadium and the Woodstock Festival opens. Napoleon, Sir Walter Scott, Julia Child, and Ben Affleck are born. Wiley Post and Will Rogers die in a plane crash; other deaths include Roland and Macbeth. Happy Gwangbokjeol!

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Quote of the Day

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Thomas de Quincy, writer born August 15, 1785