Historical timeline for July 15

France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.

A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.

South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.

Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.

Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.

Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.

AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.

The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.

A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective releases of the Famicom and SG-1000 in Japan.

An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.

U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".

Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.

In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing Makarios III and installing Nikos Sampson as the president of Cyprus.

The United Red Army is founded in Japan.

Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.

Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.