TODAY IN HISTORY

On Aug. 15, 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.

In 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened as the SS

Ancon crossed the waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

In 1947, India became independent after some 200 years of British rule.

In 1969, Woodstock

opened in New York.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.

In 1998, 29 people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility.

In 2015, Japanese Emperor Akihito expressed “deep remorse” over his country’s wartime actions in an address marking the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.