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
• 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 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark

• 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 Republic of Genoa expels Jews from its whole territory
• 1580 Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.

• 1643 Able Tasman returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania
• 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


• 1741 Captain Vitus Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America
• 1762 Austria uses 1st paper currency

• 1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
• 1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros
• 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
• 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

• 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 World's 1st plastic Celluloid is 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

• 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 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Bertha Townsend beats defending champion Ellen Hansell 6-3, 6-5
• 1889 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Defending champion Bertha Townsend beats Lida Voorhees 7-5, 6-2
• 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)
• 1906 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Scotsman James Braid successfully defends title by 4 strokes from J.H. Taylor of England; his 3rd Open victory
• 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 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Mary Browne beats Eleonora Sears 6-4, 6-2 for her first of 3 straight US singles titles
• 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 De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
• 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
• 1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
• 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
• 1926 7th French government of Briand falls

• 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 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 World War II: France surrenders to NAZI Germany, German troops occupy Paris
• 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

• 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 Basle, 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 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 performances
• 1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)


• 1957 US Open Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Dick Mayer defeats defending champion Cary Middlecoff by 7 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only major title
• 1957 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6
• 1957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
• 1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races

• 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 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 performances
• 1963 "Sukiyaki" sung by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, hits #1
• 1963 Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28)

• 1963 SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0
• 1964 Last French troops leave Algeria

• 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

• 1968 "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 performances
• 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 "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express hits #4
• 1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
• 1969 US Open Golf, Champions GC: Orville Moody wins only major title by 1 stroke from Al Geiberger, Bob Rosberg & Dean Beman


• 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 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
• 1974 "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 on UK pop chart

• 1975 French Open Men's Tennis: Sweden's Björn Borg retains title; beats Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
• 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 and 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 US Open Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Jack Nicklaus sets new tournament scoring record 272 (-8) to win his 4th Open title, 2 strokes ahead of Isao Aoki of Japan
• 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 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion

• 1984 "Thicke Of The Night" TV Talk Show last airs in syndication


• 1984 American boxer Thomas Hearns retains WBC light middleweight title with 2 round KO of Roberto Durán of Panama at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas; marks first time in his illustrious career Durán knocked out
• 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 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands 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
• 1986 US Open Men's Golf, Shinnecock Hills GC: Raymond Floyd wins his 4th and final major, 2 strokes ahead of Chip Beck and Lanny Wadkins

• 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 Baltimore 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, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
• 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

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