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What happened in history on this day: June 15?
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- 1215 - In Runnymede, England, King John affixes his royal seal to the Magna Carta. The document guarantees that the king would respect feudal rights and privileges, uphold the freedom of the church, and maintain the nation's laws.
- 1219 - King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark.
- 1330 - Birth of Edward the black prince, prince of Wales (1343-1376).
- 1381 - Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London.
- 1389 - Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians.
- 1467 - Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy, dies at age 76.
- 1520 - The Roman Pope, Leo X, threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther.
- 1536 - Daughter Mary signs a document admitting her parents' marriage had been unlawful, that she was illegitimate, and she recognizes King Henry VIII as Supreme Head in Earth under Christ of the Church in England.
- 1567 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy.
- 1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther.
- 1664 - New Jersey established.
- 1733 - Denmark purchases Saint Croix island in the Caribbean from France.
- 1767 - Birth of Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson first lady.
- 1775 - The Continental Congress names George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army.
- 1779 - General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx.
- 1785 - Two French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation accident.
- 1804 - 12th amendment to the US Constitution is ratified; deals with manner of choosing president.
- 1836 - Arkansas is admitted to the USA as the 25th state.
- 1843 - Birth of Edvard Grieg in Bergen, Norway; composer (Bewitched One).
- 1844 - Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber.
- 1846 - The dispute between the US and Great Britain over the Oregon country is settled by treaty, establishing the boundary at the 49th parallel.
- 1849 - Death of James Knox Polk of cholera in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Tennessee Legislature (1823-24), House of Representatives (1825-39), Tennessee Governor (1840-41), 11th US President (1845-49).
- 1851 - Ship Marco Polo arrives at Liverpool, England, 15 days after leaving Saint John, New Brunswick, setting trans-Atlantic crossing record.
- 1851 - Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up first ice-cream factory.
- 1859 - On San Juan Island, south of Vancouver Island, an area of border dispute between the USA and British Columbia, an American farmer shoots an invading pig in his garden.
- 1860 - First White settlement in Idaho (Franklin).
- 1864 - Battle for Petersburg begins as General Ulysses Grant assaults Confederate line.
- 1864 - Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, Virginia) becomes a military cemetery.
- 1866 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe.
- 1866 - Prussia attacks Austria.
- 1869 - Marshall Francisco Serrano os appointed regent of Spain.
- 1869 - Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout.
- 1878 - First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one picture) done to see if all four of a horse's hooves leave the ground at the same time.
- 1888 - Birth of Maria Dermoût in Java; Dutch novelist (The 10,000 Things).
- 1894 - Birth of Robert Russell Bennett in Kansas City, Kansas, USA; composer/arranger (Oklahoma!).
- 1896 - Off Sanriku, Japan, a magnitude 8.5 earthquake occurs. 28,000 people are killed and 170 miles of coastline are destroyed by the resulting 25-metre (80-foot) tsunami. In Hawaii, wharves are demolished. In California, a 9.5-foot wave is observed.
- 1900 - Birth of Otto Clarence Luening in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; composer ("Sonority Canon").
- 1902 - Birth of Erik H Erickson; psychologist (Existentionalist).
- 1902 - Birth of Max Rudolf in Frankfurt, Germany; conductor (Göteberg Symphony Orchestra).
- 1904 - Side-wheeler ship General Slocum burns in New York's East River (1,031 die).
- 1907 - 44 nations meet in second Hague Peace Conference.
- 1910 - Birth of David Rose in London, England; orchestra leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper).
- 1914 - Birth of Saul Steinberg in Romania; cartoonist, illustrator (The New Yorker).
- 1915 - US government mints first $50 gold coins, for Panama Pacific Expo.
- 1917 - Birth of Bill Martin in Iowa, USA; moviemaker at 20th Century Fox, Disney Studios, Imagineers, extensive work on Disneyland, vice president of design 1971-77, planned Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland, named Disney Legend 1994.
- 1918 - 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins).
- 1919 - Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown and Captain John Alcock complete the first trans-Atlantic non-stop flight, landing in Ireland. They win the Daily Mail prize of 10,000 pounds sterling.
- 1922 - Birth of Morris K Udall; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Arizona).
- 1924 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile.
- 1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens.
- 1925 - B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda.
- 1929 - First time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exchange.
- 1932 - Birth of Mario Cuomo; American politician (Governor-Democrat-New York).
- 1933 - C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya and #1279 Uganda.
- 1934 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna.
- 1934 - Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated.
- 1934 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1322 Coppernicus.
- 1935 - Birth of Belinda Lee in England; actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus).
- 1937 - Birth of Waylon Jennings in Littlefield, Texas, USA; singer of innumerable country songs ("Ramblin' Man", Dukes of Hazzard).
- 1938 - First night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Cincinnati Reds 6, Brooklyn Dodgers 0) as Cincinnati Reds' pitcher Johnny Vander Meer pitches his second consecutive no hitter.
- 1940 - Soviet forces occupy Lithuania.
- 1940 - French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans.
- 1942 - Birth of Xaveria Hollander [DeVries] in Surabaya, Indonesia; author (Happy Hooker).
- 1943 - Birth of Aron Kincaid in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Warren - Bachelor Father, Ski Party).
- 1944 - Birth of Inna Ryskai in the USSR; volleyball player (Olympic-2 gold/2 silver-1964-1976).
- 1944 - US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific.
- 1944 - American B-29 Super Fortress bombers based in China begin bombing the Japanese home island of Northern Kyushu.
- 1945 - Birth of Nicola Pagett; actress (Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade).
- 1945 - Birth of Rod Argent in England; keyboardist (The Zombies - "She's Not There", "Never Even Thought").
- 1945 - The wartime Coalition Government in England is ended.
- 1946 - Birth of Judy Pace in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Young Lawyers).
- 1947 - First night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Detroit Tigers 4, Philadelphia Athletics 1).
- 1947 - Birth of Lee Purcell in North Carolina, USA; actor (Big Wednesday, Mr Majestyk).
- 1949 - Taiwan replaces old dollar with new dollar at rate of one new dollar for 40,000 old dollars.
- 1949 - Birth of Jim Varney in Lexington, Kentucky, USA; actor (Ernest P. Worrell in commercials, Fernwood Tonight, Pop! Goes the Country, The Rousters, Hey Vern It's Ernest, Ernest Goes to Camp).
- 1950 - Birth of Heidi Schüller in Germany; takes Olympic oath (1972).
- 1950 - Birth of Noddy Holder; rock vocalist/guitarist (Slade - "Cum On Feel The Noize").
- 1950 - Itzigsohn discovers asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir and 1779 Parana.
- 1951 - Birth of Tom Forzani; Canadian Football League wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders).
- 1951 - Joe Louis scores his last knock-out victory.
- 1954 - Birth of Jim Belushi in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor-comedian (Saturday Night Live, Trading Places).
- 1954 - Birth of Terri Gibbs in Augusta, Georgia, USA; blind singer ("Somebody's Knockin'").
- 1955 - Birth of Tree Rollins in Winter Haven, Florida, USA; NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers).
- 1956 - Birth of Polly Draper in Palo Alto, California, USA; actress (Ellyn - Thirty Something, Hooters).
- 1956 - John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for the first time as Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner.
- 1957 - New York Yankees trade Billy Martin and Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran.
- 1958 - Birth of Wade Boggs in Nebraska, USA; Boston Red Sox third baseman (American League bat champion 1985-88).
- 1959 - Birth of Eileen Davidson; actress (The Young and the Restless, House on Sorority Row).
- 1960 - Argentina complains to United Nations about Israeli illicit transfer of Adolf Eichman.
- 1962 - Philadelphia Phillies score ten runs in an inning against Cincinnati Reds en route to 13-8 win.
- 1962 - South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes.
- 1963 - Birth of Helen Hunt in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Jill - Amy Prentiss, Lisa - It Takes Two).
- 1963 - San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt 45s, 1-0.
- 1964 - Birth of Courtney Cox in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; actress (Family Ties, Cocoon II).
- 1965 - Birth of Carrie Mitchum in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Donna - The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1967 - California Governor Ronald Reagan signs liberalized abortion bill.
- 1969 - The CBS TV network airs the first Hee Haw 60-minute variety TV show in the USA.
- 1970 - NBC airs the last The General Electric College Bowl TV show.
- 1971 - Vernon E Jordan Junior appointed executive director of National Urban League.
- 1972 - Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes two-train crash; 107 die.
- 1973 - Birth of Neil Patrick Harris in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; actor (Doogie Howser).
- 1976 - New York Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor and Demsey to Baltimore Orioles.
- 1978 - King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old American Elizabeth Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 1978 - Soyuz 29 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6.
- 1979 - First space shuttle solid rocket booster qualification test firing; 122 seconds.
- 1980 - Jorge Orta of Cleveland Indians gets six hits in a baseball game.
- 1982 - In Sichuan Province, China, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurs. Ten people killed, 5 injured and damage in the Garze area.
- 1982 - Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.
- 1983 - US Supreme Court strikes down state and local restrictions on abortion.
- 1983 - Microsoft, Spectravideo, and fourteen Japanese companies announce the MSX standard specification for a low-cost home computer. The specification includes Z80 processor, video and sound processors, 64 kB RAM, and Microsoft BASIC. The standard becomes popular primarily in Japan.
- 1983 - The CBS TV network airs the sixth and last episode of the TV series Small and Frye.
- 1984 - Thomas Hearns knocks out Roberto Duran.
- 1984 - Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at age 82.
- 1984 - In Nantong, People's Republic of China, a meteorite falls harmlessly to the ground.
- 1985 - Birth of Nadine Coyle; Irish singer (Girls Aloud).
- 1985 - En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus.
- 1985 - CBS-TV airs the Pryor's Place half-hour TV show for kids for final time.
- 1986 - Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity.
- 1988 - First launch of the European Space Program of the Ariane rocket.
- 1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-213.
- 1989 - Baltimore Orioles pull their 9th triple play (versus New York Yankees).
- 1989 - Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1989 - Death of Victor French at age 54 of cancer; actor (Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, Carter Country).
- 1990 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Dick Tracy to theaters.
- 1991 - Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts for the first time in 600 years. In Luzon, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake is felt. This is the largest of a series of earthquakes associated with the eruption. At least 137 people are killed and extensive damage is caused in Zambales Province by the eruptions.
- 1991 - Death of Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915).
- 1992 - During a spelling bee at a Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously corrects a student's spelling of the word potato, by indicating it should have an 'e' at the end.
- 1992 - Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (New York City).
- 1993 - Death of John Connally, Governor of Texas (born 1917).
- 1993 - Death by heart attack of James Hunt, former British racing driver and commentator in Formula One (born 1947).
- 1994 - Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
- 1994 - Death of Kristen Pfaff; American bassist (Hole) (born 1967).
- 1994 - Buena Vista releases the film The Lion King to theaters.
- 1995 - A powerful earthquake, registering a magnitude of 6.5, hits the city of Egion, Greece, resulting in 26 deaths and significant damage to many buildings. Estimate of damage at US$660 million.
- 1996 - In Manchester, United Kingdom, a massive Irish Republican Army bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
- 1999 - George Morber Senior and Carolyn Frederick are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in Gorham, Illinois (his 8th and 9th victims, in his 7th and final incident).
- 1999 - IBM releases the 37.5 GB Deskstar 37GP hard drive, the world's largest personal computer hard drive. It features 5400-rpm motor, five platters, 2 MB cache buffer, ATA-4 interface. Price is US$350.
- 1999 - In Central Mexico, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. 20 people killed, about 275 injured and considerable damage to thousands of buildings and several bridges.
- 2001 - Paramount Pictures releases the live-action feature film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider to theaters in the USA. The film is based on the popular video game series. Total American theater ticket sales: US$131 million.
- 2001 - The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Philadelphia 76ers 4-1 to win their second straight NBA Title. They also finish with the best overall record in playoff history, 15-1.
- 2002 - Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon.
- 2003 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New Jersey Nets to win the 2003 NBA Finals, 4-2.
- 2004 - The Detroit Pistons upset the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers to win the 2004 NBA Finals, four games to one.
- 2005 - Off the coast of Northern California, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs.
- 2005 - Warner Bros. releases the film Batman Begins to theaters.
- 2006 - Bill Gates announces he will ease away from Microsoft duties over the next two years. Ray Ozzie is immediately shifted from chief technology officer to chief software architect.
- 2007 - CBS TV airs the final appearance of 83-year-old Bob Barker as emcee of The Price Is Right. Barker had hosted the game show for 35 years.
- 2007 - International Health Regulations, revamped version in wake of 2003 SARS outbreak, comes into force as binding instrument of international law.
- 2008 - Kosovo's constitution goes into effect.
- 2008 - In New York City, the Tony Awards are presented. Some winners:
- Best musical revival: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific;
- Best musical director: Bartlett Sher for Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific;
- Best leading actor in a musical: Paulo Szot in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific;
- Best scenery: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific;
- Best costume: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific;
- Best lighting: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific;
- Best sound: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific;
- Best play: August: Osage County;
- Best featured actress: Rondi Reed in August: Osage County;
- Best leading actress: Deanna Dunagan in August: Osage County;
- Best scenic design: August: Osage County;
- Best direction: Anna D. Shapiro for August: Osage County;
- Best actress in a musical: Patti LePone in Gypsy;
- Best featured actor: Boyd Gaines in Gypsy;
- Best featured actress: Laura Benanti in Gypsy;
- Best book of a musical: Mark Stewart for Passing Strange;
- Best original score: Lin-Manuel Miranda for In the Heights;
- Best revival of a play: Boeing-Boeing;
- Lifetime achievement award: Stephen Sondheim.
- 2008 - Death of Arthur Galston, botanist, age 88; discovered Agent Orange herbicide.
- 2008 - Death of Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist (born 1946).
- 2009 - The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals orders Exxon Mobil to pay US$507.5 million in punitive damages stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, plus 5.9 percent interest running from the 1996 trial judgment.
- 2010 - Prime Minister David Cameron appologizes for the Bloody Sunday killings of 13 at a civil rights demonstration in Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972, by British paratroopers.
- 2015 - Birth of Prince Nicolas, Duke of Ångermanland.
- 2018 - Buena Vista releases the film Incredibles 2 to theaters.
- 2019 - Hong Kong announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial extradition bill.
- 2019 - Death of Franco Zeffirelli at age 96 (born 1923); Italian director of theatre, opera, film (Traviata (1958), Lucia di Lammermoar (1959), Romeo and Juliet (1960), Taming of the Shrew (1967), Jesus of Nazareth).
- 2020 - Turkish and Iranian forces commence air and artillery strikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party forces in Iraqi Kurdistan.
- 2020 - At least 20 Indian soldiers and over 40 Chinese forces are killed or injured in skirmishes in the disputed Galwan Valley, the largest escalation along the Sino-Indian border in five decades.
- 2023 - Death of Glanda Jackson at age 87 in London, England; actor (Gudrun - Women in Love film (1969, Oscar winner), A Touch of Class film (1973, Oscar winner), The Great Escaper film (2023), Elizabeth I - Elizabeth R TV series (1972, two Emmy awards), Cleopatra - Morecambe and Wise TV show (1971), Three Tall Women play (2018, Tony award winner)), United Kingdom politician (member of Parliament 22 years).
- 2023 - Death of Gordon McQueen at age 70; soccer player (Scotland team, Manchester United team, Leeds team).
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