June 15

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

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

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 Kossovo[?]: 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 Georgia[?]
• 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

Births

• 1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (+ 1376)
• 1594 - Nicolas Poussin, painter (+ 1665)
• 1767 - Rachel Donalson 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
• 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
• 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris[?], actor

Deaths

• 1381 - Wat Tyler, leader of Peasants Revolt
• 1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States
• 1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
• 1984 - Meredith Willson[?], composer
• 1993 - John Connally[?], former Governor of Texas, United States Secretary of the Treasury, United States Secretary of the Navy
• 1995 - John Atanasoff, computer pioneer
• 2003 - Hume Cronyn, stage and film actor

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

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See Also:

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

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