WikiPedia:Selected anniversaries/July 15
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- 1606 - The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Holland.
- 1799 - French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone in the village of Rashid, in Egypt's Nile Delta.
- 1806 - The Pike expedition set off from St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the Louisiana Territory.
- 1916 - Boeing was incorporated in Seattle, Washington, United States.
- 1974 - Archbishop Makarios, president of Cyprus, was overthrown in a coup d'état.
