About June 15
June 15, 2024 is the 167th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 228 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 15
- 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.
- 1246 –With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
- 1389 –Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1580 –Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1776 –Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- 1808 –Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
- 1859 –Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the “Northwestern Boundary Dispute” between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1896 –The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
- 1904 –A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- 1913 –The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
- 1920 –A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- 1920 –Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- 1934 –The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 1954 –UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
- 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.
- 1992 –The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
- 1994 –Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
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