Wikipedia: June 15

June 15
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June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining.

Events

763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse
923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed, King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy
1094 - Valencia falls to El Cid
1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta
1616 - Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children in Canada, at Tadoussac, Quebec
1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians
1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther
1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the United States Army
1776 - American Army of the Continental Congress retreats south, setting fire to Montreal, Quebec
1804 - The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
1814 - 500 Americans cross Lake Erie to burn and loot Port Dover and Long Point, Ontario
1836 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state
1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for his process to strengthen rubber
1846 - The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Petersburg begins
1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established
1869 - John Wesley Hyatt patents celluloid
1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy
1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated
1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland
1944 - World War II: The United States invades Saipan
1956 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time
1957 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded
1999 - George Morber Senior and Carolyn Frederick are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in Gorham, Illinois. They are his eighth and ninth victims, in his seventh and final incident.

Births

1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (+ 1376)
1594 - Nicolas Poussin, painter (+ 1665)
1767 - Rachel Donelson Jackson, First Lady of the United States, wife of Andrew Jackson
1789 - Josiah Henson, ex-slave, settlement founder (+ 1883)
1843 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (+ 1907)
1861 - Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer (+ 1936)
1890 - Wilhelm Leuschner, politician (+ 1944)
1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst
1908 - Sam Giancana, mafioso (+ 1975)
1910 - David Rose, composer
1914 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (+ 1984)
1917 - Lash La Rue, actor (+ 1996)
1921 - Erroll Garner, jazz musician (+ 1977)
1928 - Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, behaviorist
1932 - Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York
1937 - Waylon Jennings, singer (+ 2002)
1938 - Billy Williams, baseball star
1939 - Brian Jacques, author
1941 - Harry Nilsson, singer, composer (+ 1994)
1943 - Xaviera Hollander, prostitute, author
1943 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
1948 - Mike Holmgren, American football coach
1949 - Dusty Baker, baseball player, coach
1954 - James Belushi, actor
1958 - Wade Boggs, baseball player
1963 - Helen Hunt, actress
1964 - Courteney Cox, actress
1969 - Ice Cube, singer, actor
1969 - Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper
1971 - Edwin Brienen, Dutch director
1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, actor

Deaths

923 - Robert I of France
1381 - Wat Tyler, leader of Peasants Revolt
1467 - Philip the Good of Burgundy
1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer
1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer
1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States
1869 - Marquis Ferdinando Bartolommei, Italian revolutionist and statesman
1888 - Friedrich III of Germany
1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
1941 - Evelyn Underhill, Anglican mystic and poet
1969 - Georges Pompidou, president of France
1984 - Meredith Willson, composer
1989 - Victor French, actor
1993 - John Connally, former Governor of Texas, United States Secretary of the Treasury, United States Secretary of the Navy
1993 - James Hunt, English motor-racing driver
1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz singer
1997 - Kim Casali, English cartoonist
1999 - George Morber Senior, 80-year old senior citizen
1999 - Carolyn Frederick, grown daughter of George Morber Senior
2003 - Hume Cronyn, stage and film actor
2003 - Volker Kriegel, jazz musician

Holidays and observances

Commemoration of Evelyn Underhill (Anglican mystic and poet)
Roman Empire - ninth and final day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
Ancient Latvia - Vitus Diena held

See Also:

June 14 - June 16 - May 15 - July 15 -- listing of all days

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