15th July in history

Born on this day in 1949, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, its Minister of Defence, and ruler of the Emirate of Dubai.

Did you know that:

• The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign on this day in 1799
• The Bandai volcano in Japan erupted for the first time in a thousand years on this day in 1888
• Camillo Golgi discovered the Golgi Apparatus on this day in 1898
• Aldus PageMaker, the first desktop publishing program, was first shipped for sale to consumers on this day in 1985

// Compiled by Zoya Siddiqui