Template:On this day/August 15

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Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

August 15:

  • 1842John Patten Emmet, appointed by Thomas Jefferson as the first professor of the School of Natural History at the University of Virginia died in New York soon after returning from Florida on a ship which had been lost at sea for over a month (aged 47)
  • 1865Mosby Monroe Parsons, United States officer in the Mexican–American War and brigadier general of the Confederate States Army, was was killed by bandits in Nuevo León, Mexico. (b. 1822 in Charlottesville)
  • 2015Julian Bond, University of Virginia professor emeritus of history and one of America’s foremost civil rights leaders, died in Florida after a brief illness (aged 75)