July 15: on this day in history

Historical events

1. 1815Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered aboard the British warship HMS Bellerophon.
2. 1834The centuries-old Spanish Inquisition was officially abolished.
3. 1840Europe's great powers signed the Convention of London, supporting the Ottomans against Muhammad Ali Pasha, the governor of Egypt.
4. 1910Psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin named a disease after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
5. 1975American and Soviet spacecraft launched on the same day as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

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