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On this Day ~ June 15th

763 BC- Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet

1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England

1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark

1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London

1389 Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians

1520 Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church

1567 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy

1590 Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther

1664 NJ established

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

1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president

1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state

1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber

1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49ø N

1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory

1857 SF Water Works organized

1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)

1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"

1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line

1864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a miltary cemetery

1866 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe

1866 Prussia attacks Austria

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 cconvention

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 NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1

1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adv "The Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)

1894 Phillies beat Cincinatti 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

1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time

1902 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

1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo

1918 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania

1918 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins)

1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland

1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile

1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens

1925 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda

1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch

1933 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya & #1279 Uganda

1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna

1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated

1934 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 unprecident 2nd consecutive no-hitter

1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1676 Kariba

1940 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans

1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific

1947 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)

1950 Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir & 1779 Parana

1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila

1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory

1956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the 1st time as
Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner

1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)

1957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran

1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman

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

1963 SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt 45s, 1-0

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 premiers on CBS TV

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

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

1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American

1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days

1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds

1980 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

1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus

1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity

1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213

1989 Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)

1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth

1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premiers

1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts

1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)