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Movie events on the 15th August
At the Battle of Lumphanan, King Macbeth of Scotland is slain by Malcolm Canmore, whose father, King Duncan I, was murdered by Macbeth 17 years earlier. (Macbeth)
Edna Ferber is born. (Kalamazoo, Michigan) (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
Will Rogers killed in plane crash. (Alaska) (Story of Will Rogers, The )
Emperor Hirohito broadcasts the news of Japan's surrender to the Japanese people. (MacArthur)
Richard Nixon turns his attention away from the war in Vietnam and announces a sweeping series of economic initiatives, including a ninety-day freeze on wages and rents, as well as the end of America's twenty-five-year-old policy of converting foreign money into gold. (Nixon)