Historical events on June 15
JUNE 15, 1215
King John of England and a group of rebel barons agreed on the text of Magna Carta, an influential charter of rights.
John was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his
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JUNE 15, 1996
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also
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JUNE 15, 2012
American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
Nikolas Wallenda is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a
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JUNE 15, 1859
The shooting of a pig in the San Juan Islands led to the so-called Pig War over the border between the United States and British North America.
The San Juan Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and
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JUNE 15, 763 BC
The Bur-Sagale eclipse was observed in Assyria, the earliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has been successfully identified.
This article concerns the period 769 BC – 760 BC.
JUNE 15, 1896
An earthquake registering 8.5 Mw and subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing at least 22,000 people and destroying about 9,000 homes.
The 1896 Sanriku earthquake was one of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. The 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at
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JUNE 15, 1991
The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon in the Philippines. Located on the tripoint of Zambales, Tarlac
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JUNE 15, 1520
Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine, censuring 41 propositions from Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and subsequent writings, and threatening him with excommunication unless he recanted.
Pope Leo X was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521.
JUNE 15, 1978
King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan (pictured).
Hussein bin Talal was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite
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JUNE 15, 1921
Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
Elizabeth Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot
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JUNE 15, 1800
War of the Second Coalition: The signing of the Convention of Alessandria brought temporary peace between France and Austria.
The War of the Second Coalition was the second war targeting revolutionary France by many European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria, and
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JUNE 15, 2006
US president George W. Bush designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, now one of the world's largest protected areas.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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JUNE 15, 1920
Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having taken place in the Northern United States.
On June 15, 1920, three African-American circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, suspects in an assault case, were taken
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JUNE 15, 1944
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began its first air raid on the Japanese archipelago, although little damage was caused.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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JUNE 15, 1878
Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops (animation pictured), which became the basis of motion pictures.
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.