Historical Events on June 15

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• 763 BC Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history
• 778 Willibald, Abbot of Heidenheim, dictates his pilgrimage to the Holy Land fifty years before, to nun Hugburc, who records this and biographies of Willibald and his brother - the first known English woman writer [1]
• 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 Magnus V Erlingsson, King of Norway (1156–1184), dies in the Battle of Fimreite

• 1219 Battle of Lyndanisse won by King Valdemar II and his Danish forces during their invasion of Estonia
• 1246 Battle at Leitha river between Hungarian forces of King Béla IV of Hungary and Austrian army of Duke Frederick II - Austrian victory but Frederick is killed
• 1246 With the death of Duke Frederick II at Battle of Leitha, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria
• 1389 Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe. Large losses on both sides including Sultan Murad and Serbian leader Prince Lazar. (NS date)
• 1567 Battle at Carberry, Scotland: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwell's army
• 1567 Republic of Genoa expels Jews from its whole territory

• 1598 Battle of San Juan: British forces led by Sir George Clifford attack Spanish-held San Juan, capturing the citadel El Moro and holding for 65 days [1]

• 1643 Able Tasman returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania and New Zealand and completing (without realising it) a circumnavigation of Australia
• 1667 1st fully documented human blood transfusion is performed by French physician, Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, when a small amount of sheep blood is transfused into a 15-year old boy, who survives the procedure
• 1715 Ottoman army lands at Acrocorinth, beginning their reconquest of the Morea (Peloponnese)
• 1741 Captain Vitus Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America
• 1762 Austria uses 1st paper currency

• 1785 Two French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
• 1791 Spaniard Jose Maria Narvaez is the first European to explore the Strait of Georgia (British Columbia)

• 1804 Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing the procedure for electing the President and Vice President, ratified in Congress
• 1808 Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain

• 1834 Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews
• 1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state of the Union

• 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

• 1863 Second Battle at Winchester Virginia, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualties
• 1864 -17] Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia

• 1864 Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia

• 1864 US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
• 1866 Prussia attacks Austria
• 1867 Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana
• 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

• 1887 Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in a barrel down Niagara Falls
• 1887 NY Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1
• 1887 Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo

• 1894 Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
• 1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan; 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured and 13,000 houses destroyed
• 1897 Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
• 1898 US House of Representatives passes resolution to annex Hawaii
• 1898 US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo, Cuba
• 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, Texas 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 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 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), later known as IBM is incorporated, in Endicott, New York
• 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
• 1917 In order to calm troubled relations with Ireland, the British grant amnesty to the Prisoners taken during the Easter Rising of 1916
• 1918 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
• 1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
• 1920 African American circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie are taken from jail and lynched by a white mob of thousands in Duluth, Minnesota
• 1920 De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal

• 1923 Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike
• 1924 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal

• 1925 Philadelphia As go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15

• 1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch

• 1931 Poland and USSR sign friendship and trade treaty
• 1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee is dedicated
• 1938 1st night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cincinnati 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 German troops occupy Paris as French resistance to the German invasion crumbles
• 1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
• 1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) forms in Chicago, Illinois
• 1943 Race riot in Beaumont, Texas erupts killing 2
• 1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
• 1945 Dutch political party ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
• 1948 First night game at Briggs Stadium, Detroit: Tigers beat Philadelphia A's, 4-1
• 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

• 1953 Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 & Browns 14-game losing streak
• 1953 NY Yankees first baseman Johnny Mize is 93rd MLB 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 Basel, Switzerland
• 1955 Australia score 8-758 v West Indies at Kingston, their best ever

• 1955 The International Olympic Committee votes to award Rome the rights to host the 1960 Summer Olympic Games
• 1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)

• 1959 Galapagos Islands are made Ecuador's first national park, banning the capture of species [1]

• 1961 Expansion Washington 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 Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement
• 1962 WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1963 "Sukiyaki" sung by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, hits #1
• 1963 American Leonard "Buddy" Edelen runs world record marathon (2:14:28) at Polytechnic Marathon (from Windsor to Chiswick, England)

• 1964 Last French troops leave Algeria

• 1965 South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products
• 1966 Mexican record temperature of 52.5 °C (126.5 °F) in the shade is recorded in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora

• 1968 "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" by Ohio Express hits #4

• 1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
• 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
• 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 The Social Democratic and Labour Party meet Secretary of State for Northern Ireland W Whitelaw, to present the IRA's conditions for a meeting
• 1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof

• 1974 Robert Wilson, Alan Lloyd and Michael Galasso's musical theatre work "A Letter for Queen Victoria" premieres at Caio Melisso Theater, Spoleto, Italy
• 1976 In a blockbuster MLB trade, NY Yankees send May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore Orioles for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
• 1976 Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium
• 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 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game

• 1982 Riots occur in Argentina after the country is defeated in the Falklands Island War
• 1982 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education

• 1983 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion
• 1984 "Thicke Of The Night" TV Talk Show last airs in syndication

• 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 Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by man later judged insane; he throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with his knife
• 1985 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus

• 1987 Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
• 1987 Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for The Ring heavyweight boxing title at Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
• 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213
• 1988 Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
• 1989 Baltimore Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)

• 1991 Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois
• 1991 Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
• 1992 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years
• 1992 Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to spell "potato," "potatoe" during spelling bee
• 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 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates' Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in one inning - until a review of the rules determined his first steal attempt was nullified by an interference call [1]
• 1994 Disney's animated musical film "The Lion King" opens in theaters with $42 million
• 1994 New York Giants cut Super Bowl XXI MVP quarterback Phil Simms after 15 years service with the NFL club
• 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

• 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 misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon

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