15 June - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on June 15, the day number in a year is 166 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 167. June 15 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
June 15 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 763 | The Eclipse of Bur-Sagale was observed in Assyria, theearliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has beensuccessfully identified. |
| 1215 | King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta. |
| 1219 | Northern Crusades-According to a popular Danish legend, the Dannebrog (Flag of Denmark), today one of the oldest state flags in theworld still in use, fell from the sky and gave the Danish forces renewed hope to defeat the Estonians at the Battle of Lyndanisse. |
| 1300 | The city of Bilbao is founded. Bilbao is a municipality and city in Spain, the capital of the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. It is the largest municipality of the Basque Country and the tenth largest in Spain, with a population of 353,187 in 2010. |
| 1389 | The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians during Kosov War. The Battle of Kosov took place on 15 June 1389 between the army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, and the invading army of the Ottoman Empireunder the command of Sultan Murad Hüdavendigâr. |
| 1389 | Ottoman Turkish) Empire defeated Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo. |
| 1502 | Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage. Martinique is an island in the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of 1,128 square kilometres (436 sq mi) and a population of 386,486 inhabitants (as of January 2013). |
| 1520 | Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine to censurepropositions from Martin Luther's 95 theses and threaten him withexcommunication. |
| 1659 | Aurangzeb declared as the Emperor at Delhi. Aurangzeb was the sixth Mughal Emperor and ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent. His reign lasted for 49 years from 1658 until his death in 1707.Aurangzeb was a notable expansionist and during his reign, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent. |
| 1664 | New Jersey was established in America. |
| 1667 | The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. Jean-Baptiste Denys was a French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He studied in Montpellier and was the personal physician to King Louis XIV. |
| 1703 | Prince E Rococzi started the Hungarian Rebellion in France. |
| 1762 | The paper currency started in Austria. |
| 1762 | Paper currency started in Austria. |
| 1776 | Human blood transfusion was performed for the first time by Dr. Yeo Baptis Denis. |
| 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. |
| 1785 | Two Franciscan civilians died of flying in a balloon in the world's first air crash. |
| 1804 | The 12th Amendment was ratified in the US Constitution, which deals with the regulation of judicial power. |
| 1808 | Joseph Bonaparte became King of Spain. Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily (1806–1808), and later King of Spain. After the fall of Napoleon, Joseph styled himself Comte de Survilliers. |
| 1815 | Napoleonic Wars-French Marshal Michel Ney earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Quatre Bras. |
| 1815 | The Duchess of Richmond held a ball in Brussels, Belgium, that was described as 'the most famous ball in history'. |
| 1815 | The most famous ball in history, "Richmond Ball " was held at Ressels. |
| 1836 | Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States. |
| 1836 | Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States. |
| 1844 | Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. Charles Goodyear was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States. |
| 1846 | Lassenston Church Grammar School opened in Tasmania for the first time. |
| 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 BritishNorth America. |
| 1864 | The US Congress enacted legislation to equalize pay for black soldiers. |
| 1867 | Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode - gold mine found in Montana. The Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode is a gold mine in Deer Lodge County, Montana. The mine is located in the south western area of Montana, between Drummond and Anaconda, east of Georgetown Lake. |
| 1867 | Atlantic cable quartz gold mine installed in Montana. |
| 1871 | Phoebe Cousin became the first female graduate of an American college law school. |
| 1877 | 15 June Henry Osian Flipper becomes the first African-American to graduate from West Point Military Academy. |
| 1878 | Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove thatall four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops; the study became the basis of motion pictures. |
| 1896 | A 7.2 Ms earthquake and a subsequent tsunami struck Japan,destroying about 9,000 homes and causing at least 22,000 deaths. |
| 1896 | The tsunami that followed the earthquake killed about 22,000 people on Japan's Sanricu coast. |
| 1907 | The Hague Peace Conference was held for the second time in The Hague. |
| 1908 | World Congress for Women's Rights opened in Amsterdam. |
| 1919 | After nearly 16 hours, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcockand Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight. |
| 1920 | Three African American circus workers were lynched by a mob inDuluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having takenplace in the Northern United States. |
| 1926 | The World Court began its eleventh session at The Hague City. |
| 1944 | In the Saskatchewan general election, the Co-operativeCommonwealth Federation led by Tommy Douglas won enough seats in theLegislative Assembly to form the first socialist government in NorthAmerica. |
| 1947 | The All India Congress accepted the Partition of India proposal of the British Plan. |
| 1951 | In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, fire destroyed thousands of acres of forests. |
| 1952 | The Diary of a Young Girl was published. |
| 1954 | UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland. The Union of European Football Association it is the administrative body for association football in Europe, although several members have territory which is all or partially in Africa or Asia. |
| 1954 | The Football Association of Europe (European Football Association) was formed in the city of Basel, Switzerland. |
| 1958 | Pizza Hut is established. |
| 1967 | The first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival,the Monterey Pop Festival, began in Monterey, California. |
| 1971 | Britain's Education Minister Margaret Thatcher proposed ending the scheme to provide free milk to schools. |
| 1977 | Free elections were held in Spain for the first time since 1936. |
| 1978 | King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan. |
| 1982 | Surrendered the Argentine armies to the British Army in Falkland. |
| 1988 | NASA launches Space Vehicle S-213. |
| 1991 | The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines depositedlarge amounts of particulate into the atmosphere, enough to lower globaltemperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F). |
| 1991 | The Congress won the tenth Lok Sabha election. |
| 1994 | Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations. |
| 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. |
| 1997 | Formation of D-8 in Istanbul by 8 Muslim countries. |
| 2005 | Asafa Powell of Jamaica set a new world record in the 100 meters Ferrata race with a time of 8.77 seconds in Athens. |
| 2010 | Bhutan became the first country to institute a total ban ontobacco. |
| 2012 | Apple Eye Computer sold a record $ 374.500. |
Famous Birthdays of June 15:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1939 | Ward Connerly / Business Man / United States of America |
| 1962 | Chris Morris / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 1957 | Brad Gillis / Guitarist / United States of America |
| 1958 | Wade Boggs / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1984 | Mauro Rizzo / Footballer / Italy |
| 1981 | John Paintsil / Footballer / Ghana |
| 1930 | John Fretwell / Soldier / United Kingdom |
| 1941 | Neal Adams / Illustrator / United States of America |
| 1955 | Julie Hagerty / Actress / United States of America |
| 1920 | Alla Kazanskaya / Actress / Russia |
| 1989 | Bryan Clauson / Racing Driver / United States of America |
| 1970 | Christian Bauman / Author / United States of America |
| 1917 | Michalis Genitsaris / Singer / Greece |
| 1937 | Pierre Billon / Author / Switzerland |
| 1933 | Mohammad-Ali Rajai / Politician / Iran |
| 1922 | Jaki Byard / Composer / United States of America |
| 1932 | Zia Fariduddin Dagar / Singer / India |
| 1945 | Miriam Defensor Santiago / Politician / Philippines |
| 1969 | Idalis DeLeón / Actress / United States of America |
| 1931 | Joseph Gilbert / Air Marshal / United Kingdom |
| 1969 | Jesse Bélanger / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1777 | David Daniel Davis / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1805 | William B. Ogden / Politician / United States of America |
| 1953 | Xi Jinping / Politician / China |
| 1992 | Michał Kopczyński / Footballer / Poland |
| 1959 | Eileen Davidson / Actress / United States of America |
| 1755 | Antoine François / Chemist / France |
| 1915 | Thomas Huckle Weller / Biologist / United States of America |
| 1915 | Nini Theilade / Choreographer / Denmark |
| 1907 | James Robertson Justice / Actor / United Kingdom |
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