This Day in History for 15th June

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 217

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.
1094 - Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren
1184 - King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.
1215 - King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
1219 - King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark
1219 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck.
1246 - Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian
1246 - With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
1389 - Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs
1567 - Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army
1567 - Genoa Italy expels Jews
1580 - Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
1626 - King Charles I disbands English parliament
1643 - Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania
1664 - NJ established
1741 - Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America
1752 - Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment
1762 - Austria uses 1st paper currency
First US President George Washington 1775 - George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
1779 - General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
1785 - 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
1802 - Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros
1804 - 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president
1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1834 - Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews
1836 - Arkansas becomes 25th state
1844 - Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
1846 - Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
1851 - Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
1857 - SF 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
King of England King Charles I 1862 - Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"
1863 - 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities
1864 - -17] Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia
1864 - Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line
1864 - Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va
1864 - Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
1864 - Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a military cemetery
1866 - Prussia attacks Austria
1867 - Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
1869 - Celluloid 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 - Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point
Confederate General Robert E Lee 1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
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 - Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adv "Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)
1894 - Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
1896 - Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed
1897 - Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1898 - US House of Reps accept annexation of Hawaii
1898 - US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo Cuba
1901 - 7th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club MA
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, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
1904 - Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)
1907 - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
1908 - World congress for Woman'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 - 26th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62)
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
1918 - 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
1918 - 50th Belmont: Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6
1919 - 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
1920 - De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
1920 - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
1921 - Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
1923 - Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post & railroad strike
1924 - 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal
1924 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile
First Director of the FBI J Edgar Hoover 1924 - J Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1925 - Phila A's 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
1928 - Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time
1929 - 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
1931 - Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball
1931 - Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty
1934 - Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1938 - 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter
1940 - 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
1940 - Bread & flour rationed in Holland
1940 - France surrenders to Hitler, 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 - ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
1945 - Dutch political party ANJV forms
1947 - 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 237

1221 - Frederik II, [Strijdbare], duke of Austria
1330 - Edward, the black prince, prince of Wales (1343-1376)
1542 - Richard Grenville, English parliament leader/vice-admiral (Roanoke)
1553 - Ernst, archduke of Austria/governor of the Netherlands
1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1623 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch statesman (Chatham)
1624 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1636 - Johann David Mayer, composer
1638 - Samuel Apostool, Dutch vicar/theologist (The Sun)
1640 - Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
1728 - Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer
1734 - Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer
1749 - George Joseph Vogler, composer
1755 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
1763 - Franz Danzi, composer
1765 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
1767 - Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of Pres Andrew (1828-37) (died 1828)
1789 - Josiah Henson, American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)
1801 - Benjamin Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
1805 - William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
1809 - François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
1821 - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
1833 - Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1843 - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer (Bewitched One)
1864 - Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer/=
1865 - L H Perquin, Dutch religious radio speaker
1865 - Paul Gilson, composer
1867 - K Balmont, writer
1875 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, cross-country skier (d. 1987)
1878 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director/critic (Pygmalion)
1880 - Mahlon Hamilton, VA, actor (Honky Tonk, High School Girl, Mississippi)
1882 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
1884 - Harry Langdon, Council Bluffs IA, comic/director (Strong Man)
1886 - Charles Wood, composer
1888 - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota)
1893 - Jacob HA van Coeverden, boer/edelman
1894 - Robert Russell Bennett, Kansas City, composer/arranger (Oklahoma!)
1894 - Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
1898 - Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, organist
1898 - Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist
1900 - Otto Clarence Luening, Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon)
1900 - Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues)
1900 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
1901 - John Wesley Work, composer
1901 - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer
1902 - David Brooks, psychologist
1902 - Erik H Erickson, psychologist (Existentionalist)
1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
1905 - James Robertson Justice, Scotland, actor (Above Us the Waves)
1906 - Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor (Zoelen)
1906 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
1908 - Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
1910 - Berend Giltay, composer
1910 - David Rose, London England, orchestra leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper)
1911 - W.V. Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
1913 - Trevor Huddleston, English pastor/chairman (Anti-Apartheid)
1914 - Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, Dutch cartoonist/illustrator
1914 - Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator (New Yorker)
1914 - Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary
1914 - Hilda Terry, American Cartoonist (d. 2006)
1916 - Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor (Chic Daily News, Sunday Times)
1917 - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Black Lash, Lash of the West)
1917 - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (d. 2005)
1918 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader
1918 - N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad
1919 - Alberto Sordi, Rome Italy, actor (Miser, Taxi Driver in NY)
1919 - Van Barfoot, Edinburg, Mississippi, Army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, (d. 2012)
1920 - Amy Clampitt, poet
1920 - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official
1920 - Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
1922 - John Veale, composer
1922 - Mo[rris K] Udall, (Rep-D-AZ, 1961- )
1923 - Erland Josephson, Stockholm Sweden, actor/dramatist (Utflykt)
1923 - Errol Garner, American jazz pianist (Misty) (d. 1977)
1924 - Mohammed Ghazali, cricketer (Pak off-spinner wicketless in 2 Tests 54)
1924 - Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
1925 - Gene Baker, baseball player
1925 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes)
1926 - Jan Carlstedt, composer
1926 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
1927 - Hugo Pratt, graphic artist
1927 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
1929 - Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist
1929 - Gideon N N Nxumalo, composer
1929 - Nigel Pickering, guitarist (Spanky & Our Gang)
1930 - Marcel Pronovost, professional ice hockey player
1932 - Einar K Enevoldson, US, Nasa test pilot (X-24B)
1932 - Mario M Cuomo, NYC, (Gov-D-NY, 1982-94)
1933 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (d. 2005)
1933 - Mark Jones, English footballer (d. 1958)
1934 - Ruby Nash Cutis, Akron Oh, rocker (Ruby & The Romantics)
1935 - Belinda Lee, Devon England, actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus)
1935 - Fernand Schokweiler, British judge
1936 - Alexandru Hrisanide, composer
1936 - Claude Brasseur, Paris France, actor (Josepha, Pardon Mon Affair)
1936 - William Joseph Levada, American Catholic prelate
1937 - Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji, cricketer (Indian keeper in 60's)
1937 - Ray Coleman, journalist
1937 - Rolf Riehm, composer
1937 - Waylon Jennings, country singer/guitarist (Ramblin' Man)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 9 of 9

1905 - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1928 - "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (20) weds playwright-screenwriter John Monk Saunders (30)
1966 - English writer of blockbusters, Jackie Collins weds 2nd husband Oscar Lerman
1978 - Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
1992 - Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford
2000 - "Murphy Brown" actress Candice Bergen (54) weds New York real estate magnate Marshall Rose (63) at a Manhattan synagogue
2002 - "American Pie" actress Shannon Elizabeth (28) weds actor Joe Reitman (34) in Jalisco, Mexico
2002 - Actor Charlie Sheen (36) weds actress Denise Richards (31) under a rose arch dotted by over 1000 blooms in Brentwood, California
2010 - Film actor and producer Harrison Ford (67) weds actress and Golden Globe Award winner Calista Flockhart (45) in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2011 - Actress and model Elizabeth Hurley (45) divorces businessman Arun Nayar due to husband's unreasonable behavior

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 113

923 - Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle
948 - Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44), dies
991 - Theophanu, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto II and regent of Otto III, dies (b. 960)
1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
1246 - Frederik II "the Strijdbare", duke of Austria, dies in battle at 25
1337 - Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies
1341 - Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies
1381 - Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London
1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England
1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor
1389 - Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle
1389 - Murad I, Osmaans sultan, dies in battle
1397 - Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity
1467 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 70
1521 - Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
1557 - Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder, dies
1580 - Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem, dies at 70
1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
1666 - Pieter de Bitter, Dutch admiral (Colombo, Goa), dies
1677 - Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer, dies at 67
1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
1702 - Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies
1703 - Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft), dies at 58
1708 - Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith, buried at 62
1724 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
1760 - Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69
1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist/composer (La Rose), dies at 77
1814 - Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84
1828 - Brizio Petrucci, composer, dies at 91
1831 - Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78
1839 - Hans Skramstad, composer, dies at 41
1844 - Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66
1845 - Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 60
1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th Pres (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tenn at 53
1856 - David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73
1858 - Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63
1865 - Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide
1865 - Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61
1869 - Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60
1875 - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72
1888 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
1889 - Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39
1895 - Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72
1905 - Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies
1907 - William Le Baron Jenney, US architect, dies
1914 - A G Steel, cricketer (13 Tests, 29 wkts, Eng capt 1886), dies
1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
1917 - Lillian Bassman, Russian emigrant to America, photographer and painter (Harper's Bazaar), (d. 2012)
1920 - Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55
1923 - Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies
1934 - Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77
1938 - Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58
1941 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
1942 - Vera Figner, writer, dies
1943 - Cecil Parkin, cricketer (32 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng 1920-24), dies
1952 - Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70
1958 - Francois de Vries, economist, dies at 74
1961 - Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
1962 - Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84
1965 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902
1965 - Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
1967 - Edward Eagan, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32), dies at 69
1968 - Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88
1968 - Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 48
1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1978 - Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83
1979 - Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67
1982 - Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56
1982 - Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90
1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
1984 - Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82
1984 - Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78
1985 - Len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934), dies
1985 - Percy Fender, cricketer (13 Tests for England, 380 runs 29 wkts), dies
1985 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)
1985 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
1986 - K K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter
1987 - J A K Cochrane, cricketer (Test for S Afr 1931), dies
1987 - Walter W Heller, US economist (Old Myths & New Realities), dies at 71
1989 - Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63
1989 - Victor French, actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54
1989 - Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
1991 - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1992 - Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73
1992 - Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies
1993 - John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76
1993 - Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered
1993 - Vera, scarf/linen designer, dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1994 - David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue)
1994 - Kristen Pfaff, US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24
1994 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68
1994 - Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer), dies at 70
1995 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95
Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald (1996) 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78
1996 - Fitzroy Maclean, the original James Bond, dies at 85
1996 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88