June
15
World
Elder Abuse Awareness Day
Events
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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