Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 15
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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 |
| 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. | 8 {cn} tags |
| 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1896 – An earthquake registering 8.5 Mw 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.
- 1921 – Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
- 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).
- 1995 – Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6.4–6.5 Mw that killed 26 people.
- 2001 – Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
- 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.
- 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| Mehmed Rashid Pasha |d|1876| Miriam Soljak|b|1879| Frederick III, German Emperor |d|1888| John Fenn |b|1917| Marcel Pronovost |b|1930| Bruno Gaido |d|1942 Henry McLeish |b|1948| Xi Jinping |b|1953| 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: Trinity Sunday (2025), Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2025), Father's Day (various, 2025)
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
- 1215 – King John of England and a group of rebel barons agreed on the text of Magna Carta, an influential charter of rights.
- 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: The signing of the Convention of Alessandria brought temporary peace between France and Austria.
- 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops (animation pictured), which became the basis of motion pictures.
- 1944 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began the first air raid of its strategic bombing campaign against the Japanese archipelago, although little damage was caused.
- 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.
- Lisa del Giocondo (b. 1479)
- Adam Eckfeldt (b. 1769)
- James K. Polk (d. 1849)
- Hoshi (b. 1996)