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June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining.
Events:
763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1409 - Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is elected Pope Alexander V by the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. 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 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.
1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed United States citizens.
1944 - In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
1992 - The United States Supreme Court rules in US vs. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for the USA to abduct suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries. No reciprocal right is recognized for the reverse to happen in the USA.
1994 - Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
Births:
1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (d. 1376)
1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1843 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
1937 - Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)
1943 - Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
1949 - Simon Callow, British actor
1954 - James Belushi, American actor
1963 - Helen Hunt, American actress
1964 - Courteney Cox, American actress
1969 - Ice Cube, American singer and actor
Deaths:
1246 - Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
Observances:
Roman Empire - ninth and final day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint Germaine Cousin, patron of shepherdesses and of victims of child abuse
Saint Vitus' Day - Vitus Diena held in medieval Latvia
Flag Day in Denmark
Events:
763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1409 - Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is elected Pope Alexander V by the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. 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 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.
1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed United States citizens.
1944 - In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
1992 - The United States Supreme Court rules in US vs. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for the USA to abduct suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries. No reciprocal right is recognized for the reverse to happen in the USA.
1994 - Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
Births:
1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (d. 1376)
1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1843 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
1937 - Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)
1943 - Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
1949 - Simon Callow, British actor
1954 - James Belushi, American actor
1963 - Helen Hunt, American actress
1964 - Courteney Cox, American actress
1969 - Ice Cube, American singer and actor
Deaths:
1246 - Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
Observances:
Roman Empire - ninth and final day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint Germaine Cousin, patron of shepherdesses and of victims of child abuse
Saint Vitus' Day - Vitus Diena held in medieval Latvia
Flag Day in Denmark