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- 0763 -BC- Assyrians record a solar eclipse on clay tablet that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 0923 Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
- 1094 Valencia falls to El Cid after a siege of 9 months by an army of 7,000 men, most of them Muslims
- 1184 King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.
- 1215 King John of England (1167-1216) signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede, a 63-part document of human rights that became the foundation of the English legal system.
- 1219 Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck.
- 1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark
- 1246 With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
- 1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London
- 1389 Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1520 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
- 1580 Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
- 1667 The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
- 1752 Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.
- 1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
- 1776 Delaware Separation Day - Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- 1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
- 1785 2 French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation accident
- 1785 Jean-Franois Piltre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
- 1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president
- 1804 New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- 1808 Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
- 1836 Arkansas becomes the 25th state admitted to the U.S.
- 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.
- 1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up first ice-cream factory
- 1857 SF Water Works organized
- 1859 Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1860 The first White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
- 1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"
- 1864 Arlington National Cemetary is established by an order signed by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
- 1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line
- 1864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a miltary cemetery
- 1866 Prussia attacks Austria
- 1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
- 1869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
- 1871 Phoebe Couzins is first woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
- 1876 Sara Spencer (R) is first woman to address a US presidential cconvention
- 1877 Henry O Flipper becomes first black graduate at West Point
- 1878 The first attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
- 1888 Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the German Empire
- 1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed
- 1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time
- 1902 The Twentieth Century Limited goes into service to begin a 65-year career on the route between New York and Chicago
- 1904 A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.
- 1904 Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)
- 1905 Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- 1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
- 1909 Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- 1911 Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
- 1913 The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes.
- 1915 Lt. Frederick William Campbell (1st Cdn. Infantry Batt.) winds the Victoria Cross at Givenchy France
- 1915 US government mints first $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
- 1918 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
- 1918 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins)
- 1919 Alcok & Brown land the first nonstop Atlantic flight in Ireland
- 1920 Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- 1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
- 1929 The first time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
- 1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
- 1934 The U.S.'s Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 1940 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans
- 1940 Germans occupy Paris, capture Havre, assault Maginot line.
- 1944 First B-29 test-raid on Japanese industrial cities is deemed satisfactory.
- 1944 In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
- 1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
- 1945 The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 1950 Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir & 1779 Parana
- 1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
- 1954 UEFA (Union des Associations Europennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.
- 1955 The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
- 1956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the first time as Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
- 1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
- 1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman
- 1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes
- 1962 Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement.
- 1962 UK hist First nuclear generated electricity to supplied National Grid (from Berkeley, Glos)
- 1963 Visitor posting - June 15, 1963 Todd Miller Taylor was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
- 1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
- 1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral
- 1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS TV
- 1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League
- 1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
- 1973 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Ray Stevens - The Streak
- 1977 Spain's first free elections since 1936
- 1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who becomes Queen Noor.
- 1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
- 1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
- 1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
- 1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran
- 1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
- 1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Crowd - You'll Never Walk Alone
- 1985 Rembrandt's painting Dana is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife.
- 1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
- 1988 Visitor posting - June 15 1988 Josh Radovich is born
- 1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth
- 1989 Visitor posting - Beck & Andrew were born! - USA
- 1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty premiers
- 1991 Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Qubcois.
- 1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts
- 1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)
- 1992 Visitor posting - Camille Forbes was born
- 1993 Visitor posting - june 15 1993 Karlyssa Christine Davis was born - USA
- 1993 John Connally, the former Texas governor wounded when President John F. Kennedy was killed, dies at age 76.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Steven Maurer's Birthday - USA
- 1994 Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
- 1995 Visitor posting - June 15 1995 Samantha Wade was born
- 1995 Visitor posting - Andrew Laurel was born - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - June 15 1995 Shaundra Freeman was born
- 1996 In Manchester, UK, a terrorist bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
- 1999 Visitor posting - June 15, 1999 Kieller Anthony-James Teague was born
- 2002 Near earth asteroid 2002 MN missed the Earth by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon
- 2002 Visitor posting - June 15 2002 Sheersh Saxena is born in Bhopal M.P. , India
- 2005 Visitor posting - After a long term relationship of 2 years i get divorced from Rudzani mavusa. and after divorce it was an on and off relationship till she get married on 2008 - South Africa [email protected]
- 2007 Bob Barker's final episode as host of The Price is Right aired
- 2010 Visitor posting - Zander, Justin was born at 4:05am. - Australia
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