Notable Historical Events on June 15th
June 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
763 |
Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. |
BC AD | |
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. |
1094 |
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren |
1184 |
King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite. |
1215 |
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, near Windsor, England |
1219 |
King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark |
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. |
1246 |
Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian |
1246 |
With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria. |
1389 |
Battle of Kosovo; Turks defeat Serbs |
1567 |
Battle at Carberry, Scotland: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwell's army |
1567 |
Genoa, Italy, expels Jews |
1580 |
Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw. |
1626 |
King Charles I disbands English parliament |
1643 |
Able Tasman returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania |
1664 |
New Jersey established |
1741 |
Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America |
1762 |
Austria uses 1st paper currency |
1775 |
George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army |
1779 |
General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx |
1785 |
2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident |
1802 |
Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros |
1804 |
12th amendment to the US constitution ratified; deals with regulating judicial power |
1808 |
Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain. |
1826 |
Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II abolishes the elite Janissary corps executing thousands for treason to make way for a more modern army |
1834 |
Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews |
1836 |
Arkansas becomes 25th state of the Union |
1844 |
Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber |
1846 |
Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N |
1851 |
Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory |
1857 |
San Francisco 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 |
1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin) |
1861 |
Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry |
1862 |
Gen Jeb Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" |
1863 |
2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities |
1864 |
-17] Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia |
1864 |
Battle for Petersburg begins as General Ulysses S. Grant assaults Confederate line |
1864 |
Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va |
1864 |
US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers |
1864 |
Robert E. Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a military cemetery |
1866 |
Prussia attacks Austria |
1867 |
Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana. |
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 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school |
1876 |
Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention |
1876 |
Tsunamis after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000 |
1877 |
Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy |
1878 |
1st 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 |
1887 |
Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel |
1887 |
NY Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1 |
1887 |
Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo |
1888 |
Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany |
1889 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG) |
1894 |
Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8 |
1896 |
Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed |
1897 |
Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election |
1898 |
US House of Representatives accepts annexation of Hawaii |
1898 |
US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo, Cuba |
1901 |
7th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club MA |
1902 |
Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time |
1902 |
Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game |
1903 |
The Serbian Assembly meets and elects Prince Peter Karageorgevich king |
1904 |
Side-wheeler passenger paddlesteamer "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die) |
1907 |
Researcher George Soper publishes the results of his investigation into recent typhoid outbreaks in the New York area and announces that Mary Mallon [Typhoid Mary] is the likely source of the outbreak |
1907 |
The 2nd Hague Peace Conference meets in an attempt to stop the arms race; Germany resists, but conference does make important rules around the rights of neutral powers |
1908 |
World congress for Women's rights opens in Amsterdam |
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. |
1912 |
26th US Women's Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (6-4 6-2) |
1913 |
The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes. |
1915 |
US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo |
1916 |
Boys Scouts of America forms |
1918 |
1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania |
1918 |
50th Belmont: Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6 |
1919 |
1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland |
1920 |
De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal |
1920 |
Duluth lynchings in Minnesota. |
1921 |
Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot |
1923 |
Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post & railroad strike |
1923 |
58th British Golf Open: Arthur Havers shoots a 295 at Troon Golf Club |
1924 |
1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal |
1924 |
Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile |
1924 |
J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI |
1924 |
Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens |
1925 |
Phila As go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15 |
1926 |
7th French government of Briand falls |
1928 |
Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time |
1929 |
1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch |
1931 |
Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann retire from baseball |
1931 |
Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty |
1934 |
Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated |
1938 |
1st night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter |
1940 |
38 Italian Fiat bombers bomb Luc-en-Province |
1940 |
Bread & flour rationed in Holland |
1940 |
France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris during WWII |
1940 |
Soviet Army occupies Lithuania |
1943 |
Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms |
1944 |
US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific |
1945 |
Dutch political party ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam |
1947 |
1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1) |
1947 |
47th US Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St Louis CC in MO |
1948 |
1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Phila A's |
1948 |
Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win test match anyway |
1948 |
WPIX TV channel 11 in NYC, NY (IND) begins broadcasting |
1948 |
WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel |
1950 |
Dutch police seize condoms |
1951 |
1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila |
1951 |
Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory |
1953 |
Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 & Browns 14-game losing streak |
1953 |
Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits |
1953 |
NYC Transit Authority forms |
1953 |
WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factories nationalized |
1954 |
UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland. |
1955 |
Australia score 8-758 v West Indies at Kingston, their best ever |
1955 |
The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack. |
1957 |
"Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 perf |
1957 |
42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record) |
1957 |
57th US Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo |
1957 |
89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6 |
1957 |
Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran |
1958 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
1960 |
Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races |
1960 |
Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann |
1961 |
Expansion Wash Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games |
1962 |
Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win |
1962 |
South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes |
1962 |
WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement. |
1963 |
"Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 perfs |
1963 |
"Sukiyaki" hits #1 |
1963 |
Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28) |
1963 |
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns |
1963 |
SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0 |
1964 |
Last French troops leave Algeria |
1965 |
Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone" |
1965 |
Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced & record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts |
1965 |
South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products |
1967 |
Governor Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill |
1968 |
"How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 perfs |
1968 |
"I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 561 performances |
1968 |
"New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 52 performances |
1968 |
15th Curtis Cup: US wins 10½-7½ at Royal County Down Golf Club (Newcastle, Northern Ireland) |
1968 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral |
1968 |
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express hits #4 |
1969 |
"Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV |
1969 |
69th US Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs GC in Houston |
1969 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
1969 |
Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon |
1969 |
The Campaign for Social Justice publish a second edition of 'Northern Ireland The Plain Truth' which set out the allegations of discrimination against Catholics by Unionists in the region |
1970 |
16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn |
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 |
1972 |
West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof |
1972 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party meet Secretary of State for Northern Ireland W Whitelaw, to present the IRA's conditions for a meeting |
1973 |
"American Graffiti" opens in NYC |
1974 |
"Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on UK pop chart |
1975 |
45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64) |
1975 |
Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic |
1976 |
Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman |
1976 |
Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team & umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium |
1977 |
NY Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry |
1977 |
Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years) |
1977 |
Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam |
1978 |
Belgian government resigns |
1978 |
Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair |
1978 |
Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days |
1979 |
1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds |
1980 |
"Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1980 |
80th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
1980 |
Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1980 |
Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game |
1982 |
Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat |
1982 |
Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education |
1983 |
Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen & Rick Ownbey |
1983 |
Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion |
1984 |
"Thicke Of The Night" TV Talk Show last airs in syndication |
1984 |
Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran |
1984 |
Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem |
1985 |
"Pryor's Place" children's show last airs on CBS-TV |
1985 |
En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus |
1985 |
Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
1985 |
Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus |
1985 |
Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife. |
1986 |
86th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY |
1986 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1986 |
Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity |
1987 |
Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy |
1987 |
Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
1988 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-213 |
1988 |
Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens |
1989 |
Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees) |
1990 |
"Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premieres |
1991 |
Carolyn Tanny & Bob Trischel wed |
1991 |
Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines |
1991 |
Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois. |
1992 |
1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years |
1992 |
Erie Sailors (Fla Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13 |
1992 |
Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC) |
1992 |
Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342 |
1992 |
Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to spell "potato," "potatoe" during spelling bee |
1994 |
Disney's "Lion King" opens in theaters with $42 million |
1994 |
NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms |
1994 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1995 |
"Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth NYC for 55 perfs |
1995 |
Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex v Northants |
1995 |
Northants all out 46 v Essex & wins game next day |
1996 |
IRA bomb in Manchester wrecks city centre at 11.17am, injuring 200 |
1997 |
"Little Foxes" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 perfs |
1997 |
97th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 276 Congressional CC Bethesda Md |
1997 |
British model Naomi Campbell hospitalized due to drug overdose |
1997 |
Danielle Ammaccapane wins Edina Realty LPGA Classic |
1997 |
Du Mauier Senior Golf Champions |
1998 |
32nd Music City News Country Awards: Neal McCoy, Lorrie Morgan & Billy Ray Cyrus wins |
2001 |
55th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 1 |
2001 |
ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum sign a letter of intent for a natural gas to liquids (GTL) project that would be the largest in the world. |
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 |
2003 |
57th NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat New Jersey Nets, 4 games to 2 |
2003 |
103rd US Golf Open: Jim Furyk shoots a 272 at Olympia Fields CC IL |
2004 |
58th NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
2008 |
62nd Tony Awards: In the Heights & August: Osage County win |
2012 |
Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500 |
2012 |
Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches |
2014 |
Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Columbia |
2014 |
Martin Kaymer wins the 2014 US Golf Open |
2014 |
San Antonio Spurs defeat the Miami Heat in the 2014 NBA Finals |
2016 |
Led Zeppelin appear in court over Stairway to Heaven dispute |
2017 |
London tower block fire kills at least 12 |
2017 |
Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor megafight finalized for Aug. 26 |
2018 |
AT&T closes $85 billion deal for Time Warner |
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