June 15

Events

• 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse
• 923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed, King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy
• 1094 - Valencia falls to El Cid
• 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta
• 1616 - Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children in Canada, at Tadoussac, Quebec
• 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians
• 1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the United States Army
• 1776 - American Army of the Continental Congress retreats south, setting fire to Montreal, Quebec
• 1804 - The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
• 1814 - 500 Americans cross Lake Erie to burn and loot Port Dover and Long Point, Ontario
• 1836 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state
• 1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for his 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
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Petersburg begins
• 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established
• 1869 - John Wesley Hyatt patents celluloid
• 1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy
• 1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated
• 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland
• 1944 - World War II: The United States invades Saipan
• 1956 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time
• 1957 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded
• 1999 - George Morber Senior and Carolyn Frederick are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in Gorham, Illinois. They are his eighth and ninth victims, in his seventh and final incident.

Births

• 1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (+ 1376)
• 1594 - Nicolas Poussin, painter (+ 1665)
• 1767 - Rachel Donelson Jackson, First Lady of the United States, wife of Andrew Jackson
• 1789 - Josiah Henson, ex-slave, settlement founder (+ 1883)
• 1843 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (+ 1907)
• 1861 - Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer (+ 1936)
• 1890 - Wilhelm Leuschner, politician (+ 1944)
• 1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst
• 1908 - Sam Giancana, mafioso (+ 1975)
• 1910 - David Rose, composer
• 1914 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (+ 1984)
• 1917 - Lash La Rue, actor (+ 1996)
• 1921 - Erroll Garner, jazz musician (+ 1977)
• 1928 - Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, behaviorist
• 1932 - Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York
• 1937 - Waylon Jennings, singer (+ 2002)
• 1938 - Billy Williams, baseball star
• 1939 - Brian Jacques, author
• 1941 - Harry Nilsson, singer, composer (+ 1994)
• 1943 - Xaviera Hollander, prostitute, author
• 1943 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
• 1948 - Mike Holmgren, American football coach
• 1949 - Dusty Baker, baseball player, coach
• 1954 - James Belushi, actor
• 1958 - Wade Boggs, baseball player
• 1963 - Helen Hunt, actress
• 1964 - Courteney Cox, actress
• 1969 - Ice Cube, singer, actor
• 1969 - Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper
• 1971 - Edwin Brienen, Dutch director
• 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, actor

Deaths

• 923 - Robert I of France
• 1381 - Wat Tyler, leader of Peasants Revolt
• 1467 - Philip the Good of Burgundy
• 1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer
• 1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer
• 1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States
• 1869 - Marquis Ferdinando Bartolommei, Italian revolutionist and statesman
• 1888 - Friedrich III of Germany
• 1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
• 1941 - Evelyn Underhill, Anglican mystic and poet
• 1969 - Georges Pompidou, president of France
• 1984 - Meredith Willson, composer
• 1989 - Victor French, actor
• 1993 - John Connally, former Governor of Texas, United States Secretary of the Treasury, United States Secretary of the Navy
• 1993 - James Hunt, English motor-racing driver
• 1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer
• 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz singer
• 1997 - Kim Casali, English cartoonist
• 1999 - George Morber Senior, 80-year old senior citizen
• 1999 - Carolyn Frederick, grown daughter of George Morber Senior
• 2003 - Hume Cronyn, stage and film actor
• 2003 - Volker Kriegel, jazz musician

Holidays and observances

• Commemoration of Evelyn Underhill (Anglican mystic and poet)
• Roman Empire - ninth and final day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
• Ancient Latvia - Vitus Diena held

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