| 92341 | August 15 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France. |
| 92342 | August 15 | Event | 1945 – Effective surrender of Japan in World War II. |
| 92343 | August 15 | Event | 1947 – India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 92344 | August 15 | Event | 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi. |
| 92345 | August 15 | Event | 1948 – The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north. |
| 92346 | August 15 | Event | 1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people. |
| 92347 | August 15 | Event | 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay. |
| 92348 | August 15 | Event | 1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France. |
| 92349 | August 15 | Event | 1961 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. |
| 92350 | August 15 | Event | 1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang. |
| 92351 | August 15 | Event | 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland. |
| 92352 | August 15 | Event | 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. |
| 92353 | August 15 | Event | 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock. |
| 92354 | August 15 | Event | 1969 – the Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. |
| 92355 | August 15 | Event | 1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game. |
| 92356 | August 15 | Event | 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. |
| 92357 | August 15 | Event | 1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 92358 | August 15 | Event | 1973 – Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends. |
| 92359 | August 15 | Event | 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President, Park Chung-hee. |
| 92360 | August 15 | Event | 1975 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup. |
| 92361 | August 15 | Event | 1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. |
| 92362 | August 15 | Event | 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. |
| 92363 | August 15 | Event | 1984 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh |
| 92364 | August 15 | Event | 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later). |
| 92365 | August 15 | Event | 1998 – Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles. |
| 92366 | August 15 | Event | 1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. |
| 92367 | August 15 | Event | 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins. |
| 92368 | August 15 | Event | 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending 28 years of fighting. |
| 92369 | August 15 | Event | 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. |
| 92370 | August 15 | Event | 2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video. |