Curlew Day 2024 is on Saturday, March 16, 2024: Which other country celebrates 15th August as their independence day?

Saturday, March 16, 2024 is Curlew Day 2024. Carol Leigh: Curlew Day! March 16, is "Curlew Day.

Which other country celebrates 15th August as their independence day?

Its South Korea

August 15 - Events

778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed.

927 - The Saracens are conquered and destroyed Taranto.

1040 - King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as Scottish Monarch.

1057 - King Mac Bethad is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.

1185 - The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

1261 - Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.

1309 - The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island, and rename themselves as the Knights of Rhodes.

1461 - Trapezunt surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Empreror David is exiled and later murdered.

1517 - Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

1519 - Panama City, Panama, is founded.

1534 - Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates took initial vows that would lead to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September of 1540.

1537 - Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.

1540 - Arequipa, Peru, is founded.

1549 - Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).

1599 - Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass - Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, were sent to relieve Collooney Castle.

1636 - The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts was first signed.

1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz - Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.

1824 - Freed American slaves form Liberia.

1843 - The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.

1843 - Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1863 - The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).

1869 - Meiji government establishes six ministries below Pardication (ja:民部省) in the bottom of Cabinet, officer-of-Shinto-Worship, and jurisdiction of Cabinet.

1877 - Thomas Edison makes the first-ever recording - "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

1894 - Sante Geronimo Caserio executed for the Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassination.

1899 - The Morinaga cake factory inaugurates an enterprise by Taichiro Morinaga.

1914 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.

1914 - A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright set fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murdered seven people, and burned the living quarters to the ground.

1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw - Poles defeat the Red Army.

1939 - 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.

1942 - World War II: Operation Pedestal - The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island defenses.

1944 - World War II: Operation Dragoon - Allied forces land in southern France.

1945 - World War II: Victory over Japan Day - Japan surrenders.

1945 - World War II: Korean Liberation Day.

1947 - India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth , Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the nation with the Indian Declaration of Independence and takes office as the first Prime Minister of India.

1947 - Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.

1948 - The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th Parallel.

1950 - Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.

1952 - Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people.

1960 - Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) declares its independence from France.

1961 - Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.

1961 - Keiyo Road is specified to be the first driveway in Japan.

1962 - James Joseph Dresnok defected to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.

1965 - John Coltrane plays in Chicago, Illinois for the Downbeat Jazz Festival with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.

1965 - The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the birth of stadium rock.

1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.

1971 - President Richard Nixon ends convertibility of the United States dollar into gold.

1971 - Bahrain Independence Day.

1973 - Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.

1974 - Seoul Subway Line 1 opened, between Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station

1974 - Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.

1975 - Military coup in Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman killed along with all family members, except Haseena Wajid.

1975 - Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.

1977 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project.

1993 - Junko Asari wins the women's marathon in the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Japan's first major women's athletics victory.

1995 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel, but drops out in less than a week.

1998 - Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles

1999 - Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

What type of bird do you think this is?

What type of bird do you think this is?

curlew I guess

I have a poetry question!!! Helllpp!?

I have a poetry question!!! Helllpp!?

Stanza 1: Day to night

Stanza 2: Night

Stanza 3: Night to day/day

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