What happened on June 15? There are more than 289 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 15
June 15 is the 167th day of the year 2024. There are 199 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 24th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Manitou, Kentucky 42436 sunrise will occur at 05:27 AM and sunset will occur at 08:14 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 228 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 15
- 763 BCAssyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 923Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
- 1184King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
- 1215King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
- 1219Northern 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.
- 1246With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
- 1389Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1520Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
- 1580Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
- 1667The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
- 1752Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
- 1775American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1776Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- 1785Jean-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.
- 1804New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- 1808Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
- 1836Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- 1844Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1846The 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.
- 1859Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the “Northwestern Boundary Dispute” between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1864American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
- 1864Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acre 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.
- 1867Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
- 1877Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- 1888Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.
- 1896The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
- 1904A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- 1905Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- 1909Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord’s and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- 1913The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
- 1916U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- 1919John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
- 1920A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- 1920Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- 1934The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 1937A 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.
- 1940World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany’s takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
- 1944In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- 1944World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
- 1945The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 1954UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1955The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual “Operation Alert” (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA’s preparations for a nuclear attack.
- 1978King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 1985Rembrandt’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.
- 1991In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
- 1992The 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.
- 1994Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
- 1996The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.
- 2002Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75000 mi, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Who Were Born On June 15?
- 1330Edward of Woodstock (“The Black Prince”), son of King Edward III of England and father of King Richard II of England (d. 1376)
- 1519Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1536)
- 1594Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
- 1623Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
- 1624Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
- 1640Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
- 1755Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
- 1763Kobayashi Issa, Japanese haiku poet (d. 1827)
- 1765Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
- 1765Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (d. 1831)
- 1767Rachel Donelson Jackson, First Lady of the United States (d. 1828)
- 1777David Daniel Davis, British physician (d. 1841)
- 1789Josiah Henson, American minister and abolitionist (d. 1883)
- 1801Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (d. 1883)
- 1805William Butler Ogden, American politician (d. 1877)
- 1809François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
- 1843Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
- 1848Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Indian-born Syrian religious figure (d. 1902)
- 1875Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier and supercentenarian (d. 1987)
- 1882Ion Antonescu, Romanian politician (d. 1946)
- 1884Harry Langdon, American actor (d. 1944)
- 1888Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
- 1894Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
- 1894Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (d. 1981)
- 1900Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
- 1900Otto Luening, German-born American composer (d. 1996)
- 1902Erik Erikson, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
- 1906Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
- 1908Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
- 1910David Rose, American songwriter, composer and orchestra leader (d. 1990)
- 1911W.V. Awdry, British children’s writer (d. 1997)
- 1914Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
- 1914Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist (d. 1999)
- 1914Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (d. 1984)
- 1915Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
- 1916Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
- 1916Olga Erteszek, American lingerie company owner (d. 1989)
- 1917John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010)
- 1917Lash LaRue, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1917Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (d. 2005)
- 1920Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and director (d. 2003)
- 1920Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
- 1921Erroll Garner, American musician (d. 1977)
- 1922John Veale, English composer (d. 2006)
- 1924Ezer Weizman, Israeli politician (d. 2005)
- 1926Mac McGarry, American quiz show host
- 1926Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
- 1927Hugo Pratt, Italian comic book creator (d. 1995)
- 1927Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
- 1930Marcel Pronovost, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- 1932Mario Cuomo, American politician
- 1933Mark Jones, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1933Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (d. 2005)
- 1934Jerry Buss, American basketball team owner
- 1934Mikel Laboa, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1936Claude Brasseur, French actor
- 1936William Joseph Levada, American Catholic prelate
- 1937Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)
- 1938Billy Williams, American baseball player
- 1939Brian Jacques, English novelist (d. 2011)
- 1939Ward Connerly, American political figure
- 1941Harry Nilsson, American singer and composer (d. 1994)
- 1942John E. McLaughlin, American former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- 1943Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
- 1943Lee Shallat-Chemel, American television director
- 1943Muff Winwood, British songwriter and bassist (Spencer Davis Group)
- 1943Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish politician
- 1943Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
- 1944Robert Keppel, American criminologist
- 1945Lawrence Wilkerson, American military officer
- 1945Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Filipino senator
- 1945Nicola Pagett, British actress
- 1946Jack Horner, American paleontologist
- 1946Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade)
- 1947John Hoagland, American photographer
- 1947Lee Purcell, American actress
- 1948Mike Holmgren, American football coach
- 1949Dusty Baker, American baseball player and manager
- 1949Jim Varney, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1949Russell Hitchcock, Australian singer (Air Supply)
- 1949Simon Callow, British actor
- 1950Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
- 1951Steve Walsh, American singer (Kansas)
- 1951Vance A. Larson, American artist (d. 2000)
- 1953Rita Lee, American model
- 1954Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (d. 1996)
- 1954James Belushi, American actor
- 1954Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan hotel manager and humanitarian
- 1955David Kennedy, American son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy (d. 1984)
- 1955Julie Hagerty, American actress
- 1956Ava Cadell, American actress
- 1956Lance Parrish, American baseball player
- 1956Polly Draper, American actress
- 1956Robin Curtis, American actress
- 1957Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- 1958Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (d. 1982)
- 1958Wade Boggs, American baseball player
- 1959Alan Brazil, British footballer
- 1959Eileen Davidson, American actress
- 1960Marieke van Doorn, Dutch field hockey player
- 1960Michèle Laroque, French actress
- 1961Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
- 1961Kai Eckhardt, German bassist and composer (Garaj Mahal, Vital Information)
- 1961Scott Norton, American professional wrestler
- 1961Yoshimi Iwasaki, Japanese singer and actress
- 1962Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
- 1962Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor
- 1963Blanca Portillo, Spanish actress
- 1963Helen Hunt, American actress
- 1963Mario Gosselin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963Nigel Walker, Welsh athlete and rugby union player
- 1964Courteney Cox, American actress
- 1964Gavin Greenaway, British composer
- 1964Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer
- 1965Adam Smith, American politician
- 1965Annelies Bredael, Belgian rower
- 1966Idalis DeLeon, American actress and singer
- 1966Tory Burch, American fashion designer
- 1967Yūji Ueda, Japanese voice actor
- 1968Károly Güttler, Hungarian swimmer
- 1968Oh Dal-su, South Korean actor
- 1969Cédric Pioline, French tennis player
- 1969Ice Cube, American rapper and actor
- 1969Ken Jeong, American Actor
- 1969Maurice Odumbe, Kenyan cricketer
- 1969Nasos Galakteros, Greek basketball player
- 1969Oliver Kahn, German footballer
- 1970Christian Bauman, American novelist and essayist
- 1970Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano
- 1970Leah Remini, American actress
- 1970Zan Tabak, Croatian basketball player
- 1971Bif Naked, Canadian singer, poetess and actress
- 1971Christos Myriounis, Greek basketball player
- 1971Edwin Brienen, Dutch director
- 1971Jake Busey, American actor
- 1972Andy Pettitte, American baseball player
- 1972Chloe Dao, American fashion designer
- 1972Hank Von Helvete, Norwegian vocalist (Turbonegro)
- 1972Justin Leonard, American golfer
- 1972Marcus Hahnemann, American footballer
- 1973Greg Vaughan, American actor
- 1973Neil Patrick Harris, American actor
- 1973Pia Miranda, Australian actress
- 1973Tore André Flo, Norwegian footballer
- 1975Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
- 1975Rachel Wacholder, American beach volleyballer
- 1976Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish singer and songwriter (Snow Patrol)
- 1977Michael Doleac, American basketball player
- 1977Nina Liu, Australian actress
- 1978Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
- 1978Zach Day, American baseball player
- 1979Charles Zwolsman Jr., Dutch racing driver
- 1979Danielle Lineker, Welsh model
- 1979Julia Schultz, American model
- 1979Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian athlete
- 1980Almudena Cid Tostado, Spanish gymnast
- 1980Cara Zavaleta, American model
- 1980Christopher Castile, American actor
- 1980Mary Carey, American pornographic actress
- 1981Daniel Vosovic, American fashion designer
- 1981Jeremy Reed, American baseball player
- 1981John Paintsil, Ghanaian footballer
- 1981Jordi Vilasuso, American actor
- 1982Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1982Haley Scarnato, American singer
- 1982Katie Chapman, English footballer
- 1982Mike Delany, New Zealand rugby player
- 1983Derek Anderson, American football player
- 1983Josh McGuire, Canadian fencer
- 1983Julia Fischer, German violinist
- 1983Laura Imbruglia, Australian musician
- 1984Luke Hodge, Australian footballer
- 1984Mauro Rizzo, Italian footballer
- 1984Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
- 1985Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1988Miku Ishida, Japanese teen idol
- 1990Denzel Whitaker, American actor
- 1990Miwa, Japanese singer-songwriter
Who Died On June 15?
- 923King Robert I of France (b. 866)
- 991Empress Theophanu, Byzantine wife of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 960)
- 1073Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
- 1246Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
- 1341Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
- 1381John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. c. 1346)
- 1381Wat Tyler, English rebel (b. 1341)
- 1383John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1292)
- 1389Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
- 1389Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, Serbian Orthodox saint (b. 1329)
- 1467Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
- 1521Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
- 1560William Sommers, Best known court jester of Henry VIII of England (b.1525)
- 1614Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
- 1679Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
- 1724Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
- 1768James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
- 1772Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
- 1844Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (b. 1777)
- 1849James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
- 1858Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795)
- 1888Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1889Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
- 1890Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822)
- 1917Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
- 1934Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
- 1938Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1880)
- 1941Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
- 1941Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
- 1961Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
- 1962Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
- 1965E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902)
- 1965Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1968Sam Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1968Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
- 1971Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
- 1976Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
- 1983Srirangam Srinivasarao (Sri Sri), Indian Telugu poet (b. 1910)
- 1984Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)
- 1985Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
- 1985Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
- 1989Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
- 1989Victor French, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1991Albert Benjamin “Happy” Chandler, American politician and commissioner of baseball (b. 1898)
- 1991Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
- 1993James Hunt, English racing driver and 1976 Formula One world champion (b. 1947)
- 1993John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
- 1994Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
- 1995John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
- 1996Dick Murdoch, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
- 1996Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
- 2000Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
- 2001Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
- 2001Maria Foka, Greek actress (b. 1917)
- 2002Choi Hong Hi, South Korean founder of Taekwondo (b. 1918)
- 2003Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
- 2005Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
- 2006Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
- 2006Raymond Devos, French humourist (b. 1922)
- 2007Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (b. 1950)
- 2007Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)
- 2008Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)
- 2011Bill Haast, American Herpetologist (b. 1910)
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