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August 15 – V-J Day (1945, Victory over Japan Day)

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August 15, 1969 – Woodstock Music and Art Festival began

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• August 15, Catholic, Feast of the Assumption
• August 15, 1769, Corsica, birth of Napoleon Bonaparte
• August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito declares Japan's unconditional surrender officially ending the Second World War.
• August 15, 1945, Korea became an independent country.
• August 15, 1947, India became an independent country.