UN
Day
World
Elder Abuse Awareness Day
Events
of the day
763 BC – Assyrians record
a solar eclipse that is later used to
fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
923 – 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.
1184 – King Magnus V of Norway is killed
at the Battle of Fimreite.
1215 – King John of England puts his seal
to the Magna Carta.
1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory
at the Battle of Lyndanisse (modern-day
Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy
of Estonia. According to legend, this
battle also marks the first use of the
Dannebrog, the world's first national
flag still in use, as the national flag
of Denmark.
1246 – With the death of Duke Frederick
II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
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 – Philip 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 (traditional date, the
exact date is unknown).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George
Washington is appointed commander-in-chief
of the Continental Army.
1776 – Delaware Separation Day – Delaware
votes to suspend government under the
British Crown and separate officially
from Pennsylvania.
1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre 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 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth
Amendment to the United States Constitution,
ratifying the document.
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of
Spain.
1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th
U.S. state.
1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent
for vulcanization, a 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.
1859 – Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon
Treaty leads to the "Northwestern
Boundary Dispute" between United
States and British/Canadian settlers.
1864 – American Civil War: The Second
Battle of Petersburg begins.
1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is
established when 200 acres (0.81 km²)
around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned
by Confederate General Robert E. Lee)
are officially set aside as a military
cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin
M. Stanton.
1867 – Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold
mine located in Montana.
1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the
first African American cadet to graduate
from the United States Military Academy.
1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser
Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor
of the German Empire.
1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan's
history kills more than 22,000 people.
1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS
General Slocum in New York City's East
River kills 1,000.
1905 – Princess Margaret of Connaught
marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1909 – Representatives from England, Australia
and South Africa meet at Lord's and form
the Imperial Cricket Conference.
1913 – The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the
Philippines ends.
1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs
a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of
America, making them the only American
youth organization with a federal charter.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete
the first nonstop transatlantic flight
when they reach Clifden, County Galway,
Ireland.
1920 – Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
1920 – A new border treaty between Germany
and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to
Denmark.
1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains
National Park is founded.
1937 – A German expedition led by Karl
Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche
on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single
disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins
– Allied troops start to evacuate France,
following Germany's takeover of Paris
and most of the nation.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan:
The United States invade Japanese-occupied
Saipan.
1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election,
the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected
and forms the first socialist government
in North America.
1945 – The General Dutch Youth League
(ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1954 – UEFA (Union of European Football
Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries
American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name
Queen Noor.
1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked
by a man (later judged insane) who throws
sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it
twice with a knife.
1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo
erupts in the second largest volcanic
eruption of the 20th Century. In the end,
over 800 people die.
1992 – The United States Supreme Court
rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín
that it is permissible for the United
States to forcibly extradite suspects
in foreign countries and bring them to
the USA for trial, without approval from
those other countries.
1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish
full diplomatic relations.
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican
Army explodes a large bomb in the middle
of Manchester, England.
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses
the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km),
about one-third of the distance between
the Earth and the Moon.
Holidays
and observances
Arbor
Day (Costa Rica)
Cagayan de Oro Charter Day (Cagayan de
Oro City)
Christian Feast Day:
Augustine of Hippo (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Edburga of Winchester
Evelyn Underhill (Church of England and
the Episcopal Church of the United States)
Germaine Cousin
Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia
June 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Valdemar and Reunion day (Flag
Day) (Denmark)
Earliest day on which Father's Day can
fall, while June 21 is the latest; celebrated
on the third Sunday in June. (United States)
Mangaia Gospel Day (Mangaia)
National Salvation Day (Azerbaijan)
Separation Day (Delaware)
Statehood Day (Arkansas)
The first day of the month of Harh. (Sikhism)
Global Wind Day
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