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
- 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.
- 1520 –Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
- 1785 –Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
- 1804 –New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- 1844 –Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1859 –Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the “Northwestern Boundary Dispute” between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
- 1904 –A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- 1909 –Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord’s and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- 1913 –The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
- 1919 –John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
- 1934 –The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 1940 –World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany’s takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
- 1944 –In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
- 1945 –The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 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.
- 1991 –In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
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