📰✨ TODAY IN HISTORY ✨📰 📆 AUGUST 15 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜⚔️ EVENTS 🔹 636 — ⚔️ First day of the Battle of Yarmouk, a decisive confrontation between the Byzantine Empire and the Orthodox Caliphate. The Arab victory marked the Byzantines’ definitive loss of Syria. 🔹 1281 — 🌊🐎 During the Mongol invasion of Japan, Kublai Khan’s fleet is destroyed by a powerful typhoon in the Battle of Kōan — a phenomenon later associated with the legendary “divine wind” (kamikaze). 🔹 1483 — 🎨⛪ Pope Sixtus IV officially consecrates the Sistine Chapel, which would become one of the greatest symbols of Vatican art and history. 🔹 1914 — 🚢🌎 The Panama Canal opens to traffic, creating one of the world’s most important maritime routes and drastically shortening journeys between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 🔹 1947 — 🇮🇳🎉 India gains independence from British rule after nearly two centuries of control, becoming part of the Commonwealth of Nations. 🔹 1971 — 💵🌎 The United States ends the dollar’s convertibility into gold, initiating the end of the Bretton Woods system and profoundly transforming the global financial system. 🔹 2021 — 🇦🇫 The Taliban takes Kabul, while President Ashraf Ghani leaves Afghanistan. The event marks the group’s return to power and the reestablishment of the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐🎂 BIRTHS 👑 1171 — Alfonso IX of León, king of León († 1230). ⛪ 1195 — Anthony of Lisbon, Portuguese Catholic saint († 1231). ⚔️ 1769 — Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor († 1821). 🔬 1892 — Louis de Broglie, French physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics († 1987). ✝️ 1917 — Óscar Romero, Salvadoran religious leader († 1980). 🎙️ 1949 — Glória Maria, Brazilian journalist and presenter († 2023). 🎬 1990 — Jennifer Lawrence, American actress. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕊️⚰️ DEATHS 🏛️ 423 — Honorius, Roman emperor (b. 384). 👑 1038 — Stephen I, king of Hungary (b. 975). ⚔️ 1057 — Macbeth of Scotland (b. 1005). 👑 1118 — Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1056). 📚 1909 — Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and journalist (b. 1866). 🎨 1967 — René Magritte, renowned Belgian painter (b. 1898). 🇧🇩 1975 — Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician (b. 1920). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍🎉 HOLIDAYS & COMMEMORATIVE DATES 🇵🇹 PORTUGAL ⛪ National holiday — Assumption of Our Lady. 🇮🇹 ITALY ☀️ Ferragosto, a traditional Italian holiday associated with the Assumption of Mary. 🇧🇷 BRAZIL 🤰 Pregnant Women’s Day 💘 Singles’ Day 💻 Information Technology Day 🇨🇳 Chinese Immigration Day 🙏 Tocantins — State holiday: Day of Our Lord of Bonfim. 🇧🇷 Pará — State holiday: Accession to Brazil’s Independence. ⛪ In several Brazilian municipalities, August 15 is also celebrated as a municipal holiday in honor of the Assumption of Mary. 🎂 Anniversary of Abaetetuba — Pará 🎂 Anniversary of Aquidauana — Mato Grosso do Sul 🎂 Anniversaries of Jaú, Paraíso, Pedregulho, Pontalinda, and Sorocaba — São Paulo ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💭✨ FOOD FOR THOUGHT “History shows us that the world is always changing. Empires rise and disappear, borders shift, people leave their mark, and new generations continue writing their chapters.” 📖 Yesterday became history. Tomorrow has not yet been written. But today… that is in our hands. ✨ 🔥 Make your today worthwhile! $XRP ‌

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$XRP Coiling under 1.0268 after sweeping 0.9826. MAs converged—tight range. Break above 1.0187 triggers continuation; rejection retests 0.9947. Momentum neutral—wait for the close. Entry Zone: 1.0020 – 1.0030 TP1: 1.0187 TP2: 1.0268 TP3: 1.0400 Stop-Loss: 0.9900 #XRP #GateLaunchpool141MDOS #GateTop1GrowthInJuly #GateCardTripleUpgrade #SandiskSurges14%OnNewFinancialFramework