Tukuk-OS📅 June 15
15 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on June 15? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 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.
George W. BushNorthwestern Hawaiian IslandsPapahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
- 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.
The TroublesProvisional Irish Republican Army1996 Manchester bombing
- 1995 — Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6.4–6.5 Mw that killed 26 people.
- 1991 — An eruption of Mount Pinatubo (pictured) in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to briefly lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
1991 eruption of Mount PinatuboMount PinatuboParticulate matter
- 1978 — King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan (pictured).
- 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.
World War IIUnited States Army Air ForcesBombing of Yawata (June 1944)
- 1921 — Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
Bessie ColemanPilot licensing and certificationFédération Aéronautique Internationale
- 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.
- 1896 — A magnitude-8.5 earthquake and a subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing at least 22,000 people and destroying about 9,000 homes.
- 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
- 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.
- 1800 — War of the Second Coalition: The signing of the Convention of Alessandria brought temporary peace between France and Austria.
- 1520 — 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.
- 1215 — King John of England and a group of rebel barons agreed on the text of Magna Carta, an influential charter of rights.
- -763 — The Bur-Sagale eclipse was observed in Assyria, the earliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has been successfully identified.
Births
- 2003 — Pablo Barrios, Spanish footballer
- 1997 — Madison Kocian, American gymnast
- 1996 — Aurora, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- 1996 — Tia-Adana Belle, Barbadian athlete
- 1996 — Hoshi, South Korean singer and dancer
- 1994 — Iñaki Williams, Basque-Ghanaian footballer
- 1993 — Cooper Kupp, American football player
- 1993 — Irfan Hadžić, Bosnian footballer
- 1992 — Michał Kopczyński, Polish footballer
- 1992 — Mohamed Salah, Egyptian footballer
- 1992 — Dafne Schippers, Dutch heptathlete and sprinter
- 1991 — Jessie Ennis, American actress, director, and writer
Deaths
- 2024 — James Kent, American chef (born 1979)
- 2024 — Matija Sarkic, English-born Montenegrin footballer (born 1997)
- 2023 — Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (born 1936)
- 2019 — Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (born 1923)
- 2014 — Jacques Bergerac, French actor and businessman (born 1927)
- 2013 — Heinz Flohe, German footballer and manager (born 1948)
- 2013 — José Froilán González, Argentinian racing driver (born 1922)
- 2013 — Dennis O'Rourke, Australian director and producer (born 1945)
- 2013 — Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
- 2012 — Phillip D. Cagan, American economist and author (born 1927)
- 2012 — Barry MacKay, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1935)
- 2012 — Israel Nogueda Otero, Mexican economist and politician, 10th Governor of Guerrero (born 1935)
Observances & holidays
- Arbor Day (Costa Rica)
- Christian feast day: Abraham of Clermont (or of St Cyriacus)
- Christian feast day: Alice (or Adelaide) of Schaerbeek
- Christian feast day: Amos
- Christian feast day: Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock
- Christian feast day: Blessed Clement Vismara
- Christian feast day: Edburga of Winchester
- Christian feast day:
Evelyn Underhill (Church of England and The Episcopal Church)
Evelyn UnderhillChurch of EnglandEpiscopal Church (United States)
- Christian feast day: Germaine Cousin
- Christian feast day: Landelin (of Crespin or of Lobbes)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Peter Snow
- Christian feast day: Trillo
- Christian feast day: Vitus (Guy), Modestus and Crescentia
- Christian feast day: June 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of Valdemar and Reunion Day (Flag Day) (Denmark)
- Engineer's Day (Italy)
- Global Wind Day (international)
- National Beer Day (United Kingdom)
- National Salvation Day (Azerbaijan)
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