June 15th:
763 -BC- Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet
1094 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren
1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark
1246 Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian
1389 Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians
1567 Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army
and Genoa Italy expels Jews
1590 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther
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
1762 Austria uses 1st paper currency
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 H‚ros
1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president
1808 Jozef Napoleon 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 49øN
1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
1857 SF Water Works organized
1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
1861 Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry
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
and Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line
and Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va
and Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
and Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a military cemetery
1866 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe
and Prussia attacks Austria
1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
and 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
and Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1877 Henry O Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point
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
and NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1
and 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
and US marines attack Spanish off Guant namo Cuba
1901 Willie Anderson wins US Open golf tournament
1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time
and 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
1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
1918 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
and 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins)
1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
1920 De Zweef soccer team forms in N˜verdal
1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
1923 Belgium's Theunis govt falls because of mine, post & railroad strike
1924 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal
and Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
and Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1925 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda
and Phila A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13
times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
1926 7th French govt of Briand falls
1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
1931 Poland & USSR sign friendship treaty
1933 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya & #1279 Uganda
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna
and Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1322 Coppernicus
1938 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red
Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter
1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1676 Kariba
1940 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
and Bread & flour rationed in Holland
and French Fort Verdun & Paris captured by Germans
and German troops occupy Paris
and 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
and Dutch political party ANJV forms
1947 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)
and Lew Worsham wins US Open golf tournament
1948 WPIX TV channel 11 in NY, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
and WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 Dutch police seize condoms
and Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir & 1779 Parana
1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila
and Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
1953 NYC Transit Authority forms
and WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized
1956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as
Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
and Dick Mayer wins US Open golf tournament
and Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
and Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann
1962 Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win
and South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes
and WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1963 "Sukiyaki" hits #1
and Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28)
and Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns
and SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0
1964 Last French troops leave Algeria
1965 South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products
1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral
1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
and Orville Moody wins US Open golf tournament
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
and West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
1973 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC
1976 Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore
for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)
and Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam
1978 Belgian govt resigns
and Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair
and Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
and Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds
1980 Jack Nicklaus wins for the 4th time US Open golf tournament
and Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
1983 Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion
1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran
and Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem
1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
and Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
and Raymond Floyd wins US Open golf tournament
1987 Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213
and Turkish premier ™zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
1989 Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)
and Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth
1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premieres
1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo erupts
1992 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years
and Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford
and Erie Sailors (Fla Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13
and Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)
1994 NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms
and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on the beach at Sanriku, Japan.
27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed.
1904 Side-wheeler 'General Slocum' burns in New York's East River
with the loss of 1,031 lives.
1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel caused crash of 2 trains,
inside the tunnel, killing 107. (Soissons, France)
Aug 24th:
79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum
410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1217 Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 6,000 Jews are blamed for the plagued are killed in Mainz
and Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1391 Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1511 Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka
1516 Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1542 Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1654 Louis II Cond‚ disbands ends of Atrecht
1658 Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1690 Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1704 Sea battle at Malaga
1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1787 Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
1826 Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1847 Charlotte Bront‰ finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1867 J C Watson discovers asteroid #93 Minerva
1869 Waffle iron invented
1876 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1893 Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston; about 1000 die
1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #513 Centesima & #514 Armida
1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
and Holcombe Ward wins the US Tennis Open
1905 Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1906 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
1908 Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in Sydney NSW
1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1912 NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
and Territory of Alaska organized
and US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition govt
1914 Battle at Bergen: Belgium vs Britain
and German troops occupy Names Belgium
and Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC
1918 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1921 Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
and British airship R-38 crashes in Humber; 44 die
1922 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
1923 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1929 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
and Turkey & Persia signs peace treaty
1931 France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1933 S Arend discovers asteroid #1313 Berna
1936 Australian Antarctic Territory created
and FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2137 Priscilla
1937 Republican offensive at Belchite Spain
1939 Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1940 Luftwaffe bombs London
1942 Sea battle at Eastern Solomon Island
and Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forms
1950 1st US ***** delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
and Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
and Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel
1954 Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
and International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
and William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
1957 British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1958 Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0)
1959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel
K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1960 -127øF (-88øC), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
and 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1961 Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister
and of justice (if the shoe fits...)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
and John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1964 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1967 Liberian flag designed
1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
and France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1969 Peru nationalizes US oil interests
1970 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1972 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
and Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1973 John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium
1974 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3770
1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
and SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
and Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
and UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1980 Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
and Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
1984 Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
and T Seki discovers asteroid #3431 Nakano
1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
and Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
and Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1990 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
and Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
and Ukraine declares independence from USSR
1992 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
and Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
and Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1993 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
and Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
1995 Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
and Windows 95 debuts
-79 Mount Vesuvius erupts burying Pompeii & Herculaneum.
1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil.
2006-07-30 07:32:58
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answered by Anonymous
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June 15th in History
1844: Vulcanised rubber patented by Charles Goodyear
1972: 75,000 attend gathering of religious leader Billy Graham, in Texas
1977: General elections held in Spain, the first since 1936
June 15th birthdays
1884: Harry Langdon, American silent film star
August 24th in History
1981: Mark Chapman begins a life sentence for killing 'Beatles' legend John Lennon
August 24th birthdays
1724: George Stubbs, British painter
1789: James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer
1872: Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer and caricaturist
1948: Jean Michel Jarre, French 'electronic music' musician
1957: Stephen Fry, British writer and comedian
2006-07-30 07:28:25
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answered by agfreak90 4
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June 15:
1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses 12 fluid ounces (350 mL) of sheep blood to a 15-year-old boy. The boy later dies and Baptiste is accused of murder.
1752 - Ben Franklin Flies a Kite: Franklin performs his famous experiment, proving that lighting and electricity are related.
1836 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
1956 - John Lennon is introduced to Paul McCartney, and invites Paul to join his band.
1986 - Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
1992 - Vice-Pres. Dan Quayle misspells "potato" at an elementary school spelling bee.
1992 - Actors Tom Cruise and Michael Keaton have their hand- and footprints placed in wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
1997 - At age 21, Tiger became the youngest golfer to be ranked number one.
August 24:
1814 - British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
1853 - The first potato chips are prepared by Chef George Crum in Saratoga Springs, NY.
1858 - In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.
1869 - the waffle iron is invented
1912 - Alaska becomes a United States territory.
1932 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1960 - A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low.
1989 - Pete Rose: The baseball legend is banned for life from baseball.
1989 - Twelve years into its mission, "Voyager 2" reaches Neptune.
1995 - Microsoft holds a party for 2,000 industry dignitaries on its Redmond, Washington, campus, as it introduces the Windows 95 personal computer operating system to the world.
2006-07-30 08:20:43
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answer #4
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answered by Anonymous
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