Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 15

This is a list of selected June 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  King John of England
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  Jean-Baptiste Denys
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  General Slocum
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  Memorial of the Duluth lynchings
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  Dannebrog falling from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse
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  Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (animated)
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  Fort Ricasoli
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  1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
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  Tommy Douglas
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  Queen Noor of Jordan

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Flag Day in Denmark	needs more footnotes
1219 – Northern Crusades: According to a popular Danish legend, the Dannebrog (Flag of Denmark), today one of the oldest state flags in the world still in use, fell from the sky and gave the Danish forces renewed hope to defeat the Estonians at the Battle of Lyndanisse.	unreferenced section
1667 – French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully documented human blood transfusion, giving the blood of a sheep to a 15-year-old boy.	refimprove section
1670 – The first stone of Fort Ricasoli in Kalkara, Malta, was laid by the Order of Saint John.	"Order of St John" not sourced
1815 – The Duchess of Richmond held a ball in Brussels, Belgium, that was described as "the most famous ball in history".	unreferenced passages in "Cultural influences"
1844 – American inventor Charles Goodyear received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.	unreferenced section
1846 – To settle the Oregon boundary dispute, the United Kingdom and the United States signed the Oregon Treaty, extending the United States–British North America border west along the 49th parallel north that was first established by the Treaty of 1818.	refimprove
1904 – The steamship General Slocum caught fire in New York City's East River and burned uncontrollably, killing over 1,000 people.	trivial pop culture listings
1919 – After nearly 16 hours in the air, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, completing the first non-stop transatlantic flight.	unsourced sections
1954 – The Union of European Football Associations, the administrative and controlling body for European football, was founded in Basel, Switzerland.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 763 BC – The Bur-Sagale eclipse was observed in Assyria, the earliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has been successfully identified.
• 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: France and Austria agreed the Convention of Alessandria, bringing a temporary peace between the two nations.
• 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.
• 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops, which became the basis of motion pictures.
• 1896 – An earthquake registering 8.5 M_w and subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing at least 22,000 people and destroying about 9,000 homes.
• 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.
• 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Tommy Douglas won enough seats in the Legislative Assembly to form the first socialist government in North America.
• 1944 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began its first air raid on the Japanese home islands, although little damage was caused.
• 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan (pictured).
• 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).
• 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.
• 2001 – Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• 2012 – American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
• Born/died: | Eadburh of Winchester |d|960| John VI Kantakouzenos |d|1383| Gabriele Sforza |b|1423|Thomas Randolph |b|1605| Georg Joseph Vogler |b|1749| Antoine-François de Fourcroy |b|1755|Rachel Jackson |b|1767| Adam Eckfeldt |b|1769| James K. Polk |d|1849| Herman Smith-Johannsen |b|1875| Frederick III, German Emperor |d|1888| John Fenn |b|1917| Marcel Pronovost |b|1930| Oliver Kahn |b|1969| W. Arthur Lewis |d|1991 Choi Hong-hi |d|2002

Notes

• Novarupta appears on June 6, so Mt. Pinatubo should not appear in the same year
• Charles Kingsford Smith and Southern Cross (aircraft) appear on June 9, so Alcock and Brown should not appear in the same year
• Katharina von Bora appears on June 13, so Exsurge Domine should not appear in the same year (both are related to Martin Luther)
• The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation is also mentioned on June 17.

June 15

Bessie Coleman

• 1215 – King John of England and a group of rebel barons agreed on the text of Magna Carta, an influential charter of rights.
• 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.
• 1921 – Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
• 1995 – Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6.4–6.5 M_w that killed 26 people.
• 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.

• Lisa del Giocondo (b. 1479)
• Mehmed Rashid Pasha (d. 1876)
• Miriam Soljak (b. 1879)
• Xi Jinping (b. 1953)

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• June 14
• June 15
• June 16