August 15: Jesuit order, ski crossing through Greenland and the Woodstock Music Festival

August 15, 1534 Ignatius Loyola with six of his like-minded people founded in Paris the Order of the Jesuits, whose main task was the conversion of heterodoxes to Christianity.

1795 - France introduced a new currency - the franc.

1649 - the army of Bogdan Khmelnitsky won a two-day battle against the crown troops under the command of Polish King Jan II Casimir. However, the Zboriv battle did not bring success to Khmelnitsky, who was compelled on August 18 to sign the Zborovsky Treaty with the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1810 - in honor of Napoleon's victories in Paris, the Vendome Column was built, crowned by Bonaparte in the form of an ancient Roman emperor.

1888 - A Norwegian expedition consisting of six men led by Fridtjof Nansen went to the cross-country crossing Greenland, which successfully ended in May of the following year.

1914 - the passage of the first vessel through the Panama Canal (the official opening of the channel took place only on June 12, 1920).

1932 - During the excavations in the Vatican found the ancient Roman "Triumphal Road".

1939 - in Hollywood, the Chinese theater hosted the premiere of the movie "The Wizard of Oz," starring Judy Garland.

1961 - Two days after the encircling of West Berlin with barbed wire fences, the authorities of East Germany began the construction of a concrete wall, up to 5 meters high, with barbed wire and watchtowers.

1969 - The Woodstock Music Festival began in New York, in which 32 bands and performers performed in three days.

1971 - US President Richard Nixon announced the termination of the US dollar's maintenance of gold.

1997 - The Order of Princess Olga was established in Ukraine.

2002 - the American airline "National Airlines" announced its decision to transport all passengers on September 11 for a symbolic fee of 1 US dollar.