On this day: July 15

July 15: Festino of Saint Rosalia in Palermo, Italy

Rosetta Stone

• 1799 – French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone (pictured) in Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid.
• 1815 – Aboard HMS Bellerophon, Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland to finally end the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
• 1959 – Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike, closing nearly every steel mill in the country.
• 1997 – American spree killer Andrew Cunanan gunned down fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami, Florida.

Rembrandt (b. 1606) · Anton Chekhov (d. 1904) · Cherry (b. 1975)

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