15 August on the map of history
9 events the records the map draws date to 15 August, from 1943 to 1971. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1943
Kiska is stormed by 34,000 men — the Japanese garrison had left three weeks earlier
War record · World War II
Open the map on this day → - 1944
- 1945
The map begins drawing Korea (USSR), Korea (USA); the map stops drawing Korea (Japan), Taiwan (Japan), Karafuto (Japan); new borders for Soviet Union, Republic of China, Empire of Japan
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1945
Korea is freed after 35 years and divided at the 38th parallel within the month
War record · World War II
Open the map on this day → - 1945
The Emperor’s broadcast: most of his subjects hear his voice for the first time, to be told the war is over
War record · World War II
Open the map on this day → - 1947
The map begins drawing Pakistan (incl. East Pakistan), Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir; new borders for Republic of China, British Raj (British India)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1948
The map begins drawing South Korea; the map stops drawing Korea (USA)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1960
The map begins drawing Congo; the map stops drawing French Congo (France)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1971
What this page states
A border event is what the border record states about its own outlines, under the names IntMap’s map writes on that day: «the map begins drawing», «stops drawing», «new borders for». It is computed by the map’s own code, comparing the day with the day before.
A name the record does not date is not listed: the map’s table of era names is written in years, so a renaming that falls on another country’s border day is left out.
OpenHistoricalMap, which the map draws from 1689 to 1885, is not included: its dates carry no precision, and most of its first-of-the-month dates are months or years written as days.
The war record covers only the wars IntMap documents day by day (World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Arab–Israeli Wars, Yugoslav Wars).
Sources
CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Territory and dates: the documented record, compiled in scripts/wars/. Country outlines: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes).