About June 15
June 15, 2025 is the 166th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 247 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 15
- 763 BC –Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later 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.
- 1215 –King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
- 1389 –Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1667 –The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
- 1752 –Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1804 –New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- 1836 –Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
- 1888 –Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.
- 1896 –The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
- 1905 –Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- 1913 –The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
- 1916 –U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- 1937 –A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
- 1978 –King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 1985 –Rembrandt’s painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
- 1996 –The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.
- 2002 –Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75000 mi, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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