This Day in History August 15

Today in History.
August 15, 1888 marks the birth of T. H. Lawrence who became the famous “Lawrence of Arabia.
Likewise, in 1769, Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica.
On the other end of the spectrum in 1935 this is the day that Wiley Post and Will Rogers were killed in a plane wreck near Pt. Barrow Alaska.
It is also the day that the Panama Canal was opened in 1914. It took ten years to build during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt.
And Macbeth, king of Scots, a real person in 1057, was killed in battle on this day by Malcolm, eldest son of Duncan I. I assumed that Macbeth was an invented person by Shakespeare.