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.
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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 - Iren�us 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 - Jim 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
- 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
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "June 15" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_15 January 1, 2004
