August 15 in history: • 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos was crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. → go there • 1909 – A military coup against the government of Dimitrios Rallis began in the neighbourhood of Goudi in Athens, Greece. → go there • 1941 – Josef Jakobs, a German spy, became the last person executed at the Tower of London. → go there • 1948 – The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee as its first president. → go there • 1977 – Big Ear, a radio telescope at Ohio State University, received a strong, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal that became known as the Wow! signal (printout pictured). → go there Died 1496: Isabella of Portugal, Queen of Castile Wiki link Died 1953: Ludwig Prandtl Wiki link Born 1975: Brendan Morrison Wiki link Born 1978: Waleed Aly Wiki link Pictured: Wow! signal.