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June 15 in history

271 sourced entries recorded on June 15, from 28 CE to 2020 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 695Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil ("Eighteen Rabbit") becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras upon the death of Chan Imix K'awiil, and rules until his death in 736.source
  • 844Louis II, eldest son of Emperor Lothair I, is crowned king at Rome by Pope Sergius II, and becomes co-ruler of Middle Francia, and over Lombardy, Friuli, and Tuscany in Italy.source
  • 924Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, the Grand Vizier of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir since returning to power in August 923, is removed from office by the Caliph, and is replaced by Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Khaqani. On July 24, he is executed along with his son, al-Muhassin, for his brutality during his rule and for failing to prevent the March attack by the Qarmatians on Iraqi Muslim pilgrims.source
  • 1020Byzantine troops under Catepan Basil Boioannes (supported by his ally Prince Pandulf IV) capture the fortress of Troia.source
  • 1023(17th day before the kalends of July) The body of the late Ælfheah of Canterbury, the former Archbishop of Canterbury who will later be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint and a martyr of the church, is reburied at Canterbury Cathedral on orders of England's King Canute, after being moved from St. Paul's Cathedral in London on June 12 (the 3rd day before the ides of June). King Canute, whose Danish troops had murdered Archbishop Ælfheah on April 19, 1012, during Canute's invasion of England, has ordered the reburial as an atonement for Ælfheah's death.source
  • 1085Vratislaus II, a son of Duke Bretislav I, becomes the first king of Bohemia and is elevated 'for life' by Henry IV.source
  • 1184Battle of Fimreite: King Sverre of Norway defeats and kills his rival, Magnus V (Erlingsson) near Fimreite. Sverre takes the throne and becomes sole ruler of Norway (until 1202).source
  • 1215A large number of barons, led by Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury, meet King John of England on an island in the Thames at Runnymede. They force John to sign Magna Carta, a document that grants liberties to the "free men" – the Barons, the church and the towns. He is subjected to the rule of law, by confirming the status of trial by jury, on June 19.source
  • 1219Livonian Crusade: Danish Crusaders led by King King Valdemar II (the Victorious), conquer Tallinn in the Battle of Lyndanisse. What is to become the flag of Denmark (Dannebrog) allegedly falls from the sky during that battle. Their stronghold in Tallinn will help the Danes conquer the entirety of Danish Estonia.source
  • 1229Henry III assigns Dublin the right to elect a mayor annuallysource
  • 1232Battle of Agridi: The Cypriot army under King Henry I ("the Fat") defeats the Lombard forces of Emperor Frederick II. After the battle, John of Beirut (supported by funds from Henry), hires 13 Genoese war-galleys to aid in the siege of Kyrenia.source
  • 1246Battle of the Leitha River: Hungarian forces, under King Béla IV, defeat Duke Frederick II (the Quarrelsome) at the banks of the Leitha River. Frederick is killed (leaving no male heirs); the House of Babenberg is dissolved. Emperor Frederick II places the fiefs of Austria and Styria under his rule. This ends the Austrian claims to the western counties of Hungary.source
  • 1276Remnants of the Chinese Song court in Fuzhou province conduct the coronation ceremony for Prince Zhao Shi to become Emperor Emperor Duanzong (until 1278).source
  • 1300In Spain, Diego López V de Haro, Spanish nobleman and Lord of Biscay, founds the city of Bilbao through a municipal charter in Valladolid.source
  • 1309The second coronation of Charles I as King of Hungary takes place at Székesfehérvár after a first attempt in 1301 was not recognized.source
  • 1310Tiepolo conspiracy: Leading Venetian nobles led by Bajamonte Tiepolo organise a conspiracy against Doge Pietro Gradenigo. Their plot fails due to treachery and the rebels are defeated near Piazza San Marco by forces faithful to the doge. During their retreat to the San Polo sestiere, the Rialto Bridge is burnt down. Later, Tiepolo surrenders himself and is exiled to Istria. The suppression of the revolt will lead to the creation of the Council of Ten.source
  • 1312Battle of Rozgony: Hungarian forces led by King Charles I defeat the family of Palatine Amadeus Aba near Rozgony. During the battle, Charles losses his royal standard, but is reinforced by German mercenaries from Košice (now part of the Republic of Slovakia). The rebel army is routed, and Charles extends his power base in Hungary. His position is secured and resistance (reduced by the magnates' opposition) against Charles' rule comes to an end.source
  • 1315King James II of Aragon is married by proxy to Marie of Lusignan, daughter of King Hugh III of Cyprus, at a ceremony attended by James's representative at Nicosia.source
  • 1346Genoese forces led by Simone Vignoso land on the Mediterranean island of Chios and capture it from local Greek control within a week, apart from the Castle of Chios, which resists until 12 September.source
  • 1381(23rd day of 6th month of Kowa) – In Japan's Higo Province, Imagawa Sadayo and Imagawa Nakaaki capture Kikuchi Castle and Somedo Castle.source
  • 1384Antoniotto I Adorno is elected as Doge of the Republic of Genoa following the death of the Doge Leonardo Montaldo from bubonic plague the day before. Adorno serves as the Republic's chief executive until 1390.source
  • 1389At the Battle of Kosovo, The Ottoman Empire and the Serbs fight an inconclusive clash, with both sides suffering heavy losses. Both Sultan Murad I and Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic are killed in the battle.source
  • 1401Jingnan campaign: The rebel Yan forces destroy the food supplies of the Ming Chinese government at Dezhou.source
  • 1403John III of Soltaniyeh, a Dominican friar of the Roman Catholic Church, arrives in Paris as an emissary of the conqueror Timur, Emir of Transoxiana, in order to secure an agreement with King Charles VI of France in order to open trade relations between the two nations.source
  • 1408After receiving the news that France will no longer support his Avignon Obedience, the Antipope Benedict XIII issues the Bull Celestis altitudo, summoning the a council to meet on November 1 at the French city of Perpignan, and then flees from the French-controlled Italian region of Genoa to avoid arrest.source
  • 1410At the Onon River, the Chinese Army, under the command of the Emperor Cheng Zu, annihilates the Mongol forces of the Khagan Öljei Temür Khan, also known as Bunyashiri. The Khagan escapes and the Chinese troops pursue Arughtai, chingsang of another branch of the Northern Yuan.source
  • 1410Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, defeats his brother Musa Çelebi, at the Battle of Kosmidion outside of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople.source
  • 1428In second bombardment of Copenhagen by the Hanseatic League, all but three of the Danish Navy's ships are destroyed by the Hanseatic cannons, capable of shooting artillery at greater distances than Denmark is technologically capable of achieving.source
  • 1444Cosimo de' Medici founds a public library at San Marco, Florence.source
  • 1455In Egypt, the Sultan Sayf al-Din Inal confronts a revolt of 500 of his ethnic Circassian slave-troops (mamluks) after rejecting the soldiers' requests for camels to accompany them on an expedition against Bedouin invaders in the Nile Delta. After attempting to assassinate the Sultan's secretary, Yunus al-Aqba'i, the rebels join discontented Zahiri troops and besieged the Cairo Citadel. Facing a withdrawal of support from the Egyptian Caliph, the Sultan eventually meets the rebels' demands.source
  • 1467Philip the Good is succeeded as Duke of Burgundy, by Charles the Bold.source
  • 1467Philip the Good is succeeded as Duke of Burgundy, by Charles the Bold.source
  • 1474Venetian captain general Triadan Gritti, with six armed galleys to protect the Albanian coast, destroys Ottoman forces attempting to take over Venetian Albania, and forces the others to retreat.source
  • 1475The Vatican Library in Rome is created by the papal bull Ad decorem militantis ecclesiae and names Bartolomeo Platina as the first librarian for the Vatican.source
  • 1478The Fourth Siege of Krujë comes to an end as the Albanian city surrenders to the Ottoman Empire, which had prevented food and supplies from reaching the town for a year. After the surrender, made on a promise that the occupants would be allowed to leave, most of the men in Krujë are killed and the women and children taken away to be sold as slaves.source
  • 1478In the Battle of Khoy, Yaqub Aq Qoyunlu defeats his older brother, the Sultan Khalil of Aq Qoyunlu, and becomes the new Sultan. Khalil is executed after his capture.source
  • 1490English printer William Caxton prints his English language translation of the French book, Ars moriendi, which he renders as The art and crafte to knowe well to dye.source
  • 1499The Great Epidemic of plague reaches London, forcing King Henry and Queen Elizabeth to flee to the capital to Langley on June 25 and then to Abingdon.source
  • 1502Columbus and his crew land on the island of Martinique and land at Le Carbet.source
  • 1506Mahmud Shah II begins a 41-year reign as the Sultan of Kedah, a Muslim kingdom on the Malay Peninsula, on the death of his father, Adilin I.source
  • 1512Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, ruler of the Mamluk Sultanate that controls Egypt and what is now Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and parts of Syria, receives an envoy from King George II of Kakheti (now located in the Republic of Georgia) and decides to reopen the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.source
  • 1520Pope Leo X issues the bull Exsurge Domine (Arise O Lord), threatening Martin Luther with excommunication, if he does not recant his position on indulgences and other Catholic doctrines.source
  • 1553On his deathbed, King Edward summons prominent English judges and signs his devise of the throne to Lady Jane Grey.source
  • 1567Mary, Queen of Scots, is defeated by Scottish nobles at the Battle of Carberry Hill and imprisoned in Lochleven Castle.source
  • 1567Battle of Carberry Hill: Mary is defeated by Scottish nobles and imprisoned in Lochleven Castle.source
  • 1598England invades the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico with a force of 20 ships and 1,700 men led by the Earl of Cumberland.source
  • 1604Ottoman–Safavid War: General Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, commander of the eastern Ottoman Army, leads troops on a march from Constantinople to fight the Persia's Safavid Army in Armenia, but arrives too late to save the city of Yerevan.source
  • 1607At Jamestown, the triangular fort is completed and armed: "The fifteenth of June we had built and finished our Fort, which was triangle wise, having three Bulwarkes, at every corner, like a halfe Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them. We had made our selves sufficiently strong for these Savages. We had also sowne most of our Corne on two Mountaines." The colony reportedly bears extreme toil in strengthening the fort.source
  • 1608During a voyage in the Arctic Ocean, explorer Henry Hudson and the crew of the Hopewell sight what they claim to be a mermaid, swimming in the seas near Norway.source
  • 1626King Charles I of England dissolves the English Parliament.source
  • 1627The States of Friesland promulgate the Resolution on the April 17 appeal about abuses.source
  • 1632Sir Francis Windebank is made chief Secretary of State in England.source
  • 1656Bertuccio Valier is elected as the new Doge of the Venetian Republic in Venice.source
  • 1662The Matthews baronets British nobility title is created.source
  • 1667The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year-old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).source
  • 1670The first stone of Fort Ricasoli is laid down in Malta.source
  • 1702Queen Anne's Captain-General, John Churchill, forces the surrender of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine after a siege that began on April 18.source
  • 1703Rákóczi's War of Independence: Hungarians rebel under Prince Francis II Rákóczi.source
  • 1704The last execution for witchcraft in Sweden: Anna Eriksdotter is decapitated.source
  • 1722Pirate Edward Low and his men sail the stolen ship Rebecca into Port Roseway near modern Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where 13 fishing boats from Massachusetts are anchored. Over the next few days, the pirates board the boats and lay siege to them. On June 19, Low confiscates the schooner Mary from its owner, Joseph Dolliber, outfits it with cannons and renames it the Fancy. Eight of the fishermen are taken hostage as the stolen vessel departs, including Philip Ashton.source
  • 1733The Danish West India Company buys the island of Saint Croix from France for 750,000 livres.source
  • 1743Arthur Jones-Nevill is appointed Surveyor General of Ireland in succession to Arthur Dobbs.source
  • 1744Alexey Bestuzhev is appointed Grand Chancellor of the Russian Empire, consolidating control over Russian foreign policy.source
  • 1744Commodore George Anson's voyage around the world concludes after four years as HMS Centurion returns to England at Spithead and Anson is greeted as a hero.source
  • 1747Indemnity Act ("Act of Grace") lifts further legal penalties from some participants in the Jacobite rising of 1745.source
  • 1759The first vascular surgery in history is performed by a Dr. Hallowell (whose first name has been lost) at Newcastle upon Tyne in England, who uses suture repair rather than a tying off with a ligature to repair an aneurysm on a patient's brachial artery. The case is reported in 1761 by Dr. Richard Lambert in the paper "A new technique of treating an aneurysm", published in the journal Medical Observations and Inquiries. The new procedure of reconstructing a damaged artery replaces the practice of ligation that had risked the amputation of a limb or organ failure.source
  • 1771Hof- og Stadsretten is established by royal charter in an attempt to rationalize the chaotic Danish court system.source
  • 1776American Revolution: Delaware Separation Day – The Delaware General Assembly votes to suspend government under the British Crown.source
  • 1784Meshech Weare is sworn in as the first governor of New Hampshire.source
  • 1785After several attempts, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and his companion, Pierre Romain, set off in a balloon from Boulogne-sur-Mer, but the balloon suddenly deflates (without the envelope catching fire) and crashes near Wimereux in the Pas-de-Calais, killing both men, making it the first fatal aviation disaster.source
  • 1800Convention of Alessandria (Armistice of Marengo): Austria agrees to evacuate much of Italy and suspends military operations.source
  • 1801A bull breaks through barriers at a bullfight in Madrid, killing two people (including the mayor of Torrejón de Ardoz) and injuring a number of other spectators.source
  • 1804The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by New Hampshire, and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the Governor of New Hampshire).source
  • 1804The name "Hobart Town", after the Colonial Secretary Lord Hobart, is adopted as the name for the new colony at Sullivan's Cove.source
  • 1808August 14 – Peninsular War: First siege of Zaragoza – Spanish resist the French.source
  • 1810Radical journalist William Cobbett is found guilty of treasonous libel for an article in his Political Register critical of the flogging of militiamen and sentenced to two years' in Newgate Prison.source
  • 1811The Klågerup riots erupt in Sweden.source
  • 1815The Duchess of Richmond's ball is held in Brussels, "the most famous ball in history".source
  • 1825A rebellion is started by 200 slaves in the Guamacaro region of Cuba, and is suppressed after 12 hours; in the ensuing months, most who were not killed in the battle will be hunted down and killed.source
  • 1826June 14–15 – The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul.source
  • 1836Arkansas is admitted into as the 25th state of the United States of America.source
  • 1836Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state (see History of Arkansas).source
  • 1839David Clark, the first emigrant ship to sail directly from Great Britain to Port Phillip sets out from Greenock under the command of Capt. J. B. Mills, with mainly Scots assisted immigrants, arriving in Australia on 27 October.source
  • 1840The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette begins publishing in Kororāreka. The newspaper publishes its last issue on 10 December 1840. It was suppressed because of anti-government tendencies.source
  • 1840June 12–23 – The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at Exeter Hall in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States.source
  • 18411841 "Caída da Praia" earthquake.source
  • 1844Charles Goodyear receives a United States patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.source
  • 1846Britain and United States settle the long-disputed boundary across the Columbia District or Oregon Country from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, by drawing the boundary across the mountains along the 49th Parallel to the Strait of Georgia, and leaving the Colony of Vancouver Island, established in 1843, intact.source
  • 1846The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.source
  • 1846Launceston Church Grammar School opens for the first time in Tasmania.source
  • 1854Cuddesdon College is inaugurated by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, as a diocesan Anglican seminary.source
  • 1855Stamp duty revenue tax is removed from British newspapers, creating free mass media thereafter in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1858June 13–17 – The Treaty of Tientsin is signed, ending the first part of the Second Opium War.source
  • 1859Austro-Sardinian War: Battle of Treponti – The Austrian Field Marshall Karl von Urban defeats Giuseppe Garibaldi.source
  • 1859The so-called Pig War border dispute between the Americans and the British, over the San Juan Islands, begins by the death of the namesake pig.source
  • 1864Arlington National Cemetery is established in the United States, when 200 acres of the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home (Arlington House) are officially set aside as a military cemetery, by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.source
  • 1864Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km 2 ) of the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home Arlington House are officially set-aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.source
  • 1866Contract signed for Covering of the Sennesource
  • 1867The Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine is named in Montana.source
  • 1869The Second German North Polar Expedition departs from Bremerhavensource
  • 1869John Wesley Hyatt patents celluloid in Albany, New York.source
  • 1871Chilean presidential election, 1871source
  • 1872Thomas Hardy anonymously publishes his novel Under the Greenwood Tree in England.source
  • 1874Brisbane's first Victoria Bridge opens; it is lost in the 1893 Brisbane flood.source
  • 1876Chilean presidential election, 1876source
  • 1877Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy.source
  • 1878Eadweard Muybridge produces the first sequence of stop-motion still photographs The Horse in Motion in California (a predecessor of silent film), demonstrating that all four feet of a galloping horse are off the ground at the same time.source
  • 1880The Natal South Coast railway line from Durban is opened to traffic to Isipingo.source
  • 1881Chilean presidential election, 1881source
  • 1886Chilean presidential election, 1886source
  • 1888Wilhelm II becomes German Emperor after the death of his father, Friedrich III.source
  • 1891Minas Gerais was granted in 1891.source
  • 18931893 German federal election: Small anti-Semitic parties secure 2.9% of the vote.source
  • 1893In the federal election the Social Democratic Party of Germany come top with 1.7 million votes but still only finish fourth overall in terms of seats, behind the Centre Party, German Conservative Party and the National Liberal Party. Antisemitic parties see their vote share increase five times over.source
  • 1896The 8.5 Mw Sanriku earthquake and tsunami kills 22,000 in northeastern Japan.source
  • 1896Sanriku earthquake: One of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. The 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 (local time), approximately 166 km off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Honshu. It resulted in two tsunamis which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. The waves reached a record height of 38.2 m; more than a meter lower than those created after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake which triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.source
  • 1899Sweden's Department of Foreign Affairs hosts a conference for delegates from Germany, Denmark, Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, Russia and Sweden to make agreements on fishing in the Arctic Ocean, the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.source
  • 1899The French expedition to liberate Chad, arrives at Kouno, where the commander, Henri Bretonnet, meets with the Gaourang II, the Muslim Sultan of Bagirmi.source
  • 1899Cycle & Carriage, now one of the largest investment companies in Singapore, is founded, initially to sell bicycles and motor vehicles.source
  • 1901RMS Lucania is the first Cunard Line ship to receive a wireless radio set.source
  • 1902The New York Central Railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City.source
  • 1904A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.source
  • 1905British Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skåne, the future King Gustaf VI Adolf.source
  • 1907The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague.source
  • 1909Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's Cricket Ground in London and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.source
  • 1910The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott on the whaler Terra Nova, departs from Cardiff for the South Pole.source
  • 1910June 14–23 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.source
  • 1913Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines concludes with U.S. troops under General John J. Pershing taking Bug Bagsak from defending Moro rebels, killing at least 500.source
  • 1914June 12–18 – Greek genocide: Ottoman Greeks in Phocaea are massacred by Turkish irregular troops.source
  • 1916U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.source
  • 1919June 14–15 – A Vickers Vimy piloted by British aviator John Alcock, with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown, makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.source
  • 1920The Estonian Constituent Assembly adopts the first constitution of Estonia, which will come into effect on December 21 this year.source
  • 1920Australian soprano Nellie Melba becomes history's first well-known performer to make a radio broadcast when she sings two arias as part of an experimental series of broadcasts from a studio at the Marconi Company's factory at Chelmsford in England.source
  • 1920Duluth lynchings: Three African American circus workers are sprung from jail, subjected to a kangaroo court and hanged by a white mob in Duluth, Minnesota, in the northern United States.source
  • 1921Compagnie Générale Transatlantique's liner SS Paris makes her maiden voyage from Le Havre to New York.source
  • 1921June 15 – 29-year-old African American Bessie Coleman obtains her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first black woman to have a pilot's licence.source
  • 1924June 7–16 – Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.source
  • 1930Iceland held a parliamentary election to elect members to the Althing (Alþingi), Iceland's parliament.source
  • 1934Rubén Aguirre, television actorsource
  • 1938László Bíró patents the ballpoint pen in Britain.source
  • 1942June 12–15 – WWII: Operation Harpoon – An Allied convoy under Admiral Alban Curteis leaves from Gibraltar with 6 merchant ships escorted by the British battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle, 4 cruisers and 17 destroyers to Malta. Two of the six merchant ships completes the journey, at the cost of several Allied warships.source
  • 1944WWII: Battle of Saipan: United States forces land on Saipan.source
  • 1944Saskatchewan election: Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation wins a landslide majority, defeating William John Patterson's Liberalssource
  • 1947The Estado Novo in Portugal orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors, who are accused of revolutionary activity, to resign.source
  • 1947June 11–15 – The first Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is held in Wales.source
  • 1948Chinese newspaper Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) is first published in Pingshan County, Hebei.source
  • 1949The replacement of Old Taiwan dollar with New Taiwan dollar.source
  • 1950Cagayan de Oro in the province of Misamis Oriental becomes a city through Republic Act 521 and ratified on the same day.source
  • 1951Colombian Battalion is deployed to Busan.source
  • 1951July 1 – In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, thousands of acres of forests are destroyed in fires.source
  • 1952Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is published in English-language translation.source
  • 1954The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.source
  • 1956Eindhoven University of Technology is founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.source
  • 1958Two 14-year-old Blacktown Boys High School students are found alive after becoming lost in the Jamison Valley in the Blue Mountains and then spending a night in freezing conditions. They are treated at Katoomba Hospital for frostbite, exposure and shock.source
  • 1960The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in the world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.source
  • 1962Students for a Democratic Society in the United States complete the Port Huron Statement.source
  • 1963The AC Cobra makes its first appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It will go on to win its class the following year.source
  • 1966Vietnam War: Battle of Hill 488 - A small United States Marine Corps reconnaissance platoon inflicts large casualties on regular North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong fighters before withdrawing with fourteen dead.source
  • 1967June 14–15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition).source
  • 1969Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.source
  • 1969Linda Cerup-Simonsen (born as Linda Andersen), sailor.source
  • 1969The Huanchaca street scandal occurs, when 9 young homosexuals were detained in a house located at number 352 of said street in the city of Antofagasta and arrested until 2 July, in which they suffered mistreatment and abuse.source
  • 1972June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.source
  • 1972June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Swedensource
  • 1974A new government, under Gaston Thorn of the Democratic Party in coalition with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party takes office. The Christian Social People's Party goes into opposition for the first time since its formation.source
  • 1974Decree Law 512 formally establishes the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA).source
  • 1975The South Australian Australian Labor Party conference gives Prime Minister Gough Whitlam a mixed reception. The Australian Workers' Union, in particular, is offended by his recent demotion of Clyde Cameron, for decades a leading figure in South Australia's Labor and Industrial Affairs.source
  • 1977Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years of Francoist Spain.source
  • 1977U.N. Security Council Resolution 410 was adopted and noted that, due to the existing circumstances, the presence of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus would continue to be essential for a peaceful settlement.source
  • 1977Outbreak of cholera in Arida, Wakayama prefecture.source
  • 1978King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.source
  • 1979U.N. Security Council Resolution 451 was adopted and noted that, due to the existing circumstances, the presence of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) would continue to be essential for a peaceful settlement.source
  • 1979The ecological horror-thriller Prophecy is released in the United States by Paramount Pictures.source
  • 1979McDonald's introduces the Happy Meal in the United States in a nationwide advertising campaign after testing the product since February in franchises in the U.S. state of Missouri.source
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1982U.N. Security Council resolution 510 was adopted unanimously and noted that, due to the existing circumstances, the presence of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) would continue to be essential for a peaceful settlement.source
  • 1984June 14–16 – voting days for the European Parliament electionsource
  • 1985Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.source
  • 1989At the 1989 Irish general election, Fianna Fáil, led by Taoiseach Charles Haughey, fails to win a majority.source
  • 1990Dublin Regulation on treatment of applications for right of asylum under European Union law agreed (comes into force 1997).source
  • 1991In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll exceeds 800. The eruption causes a global cooling of around 0.4 °C.source
  • 1991Mount Pinatubo erupts, the peak of series of major explosions on June 12–16, in what will be the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; volcano's alert level has been raised to the highest, June 9; Typhoon Yunya further worsens lahar flows and ashfalls causing collapse of roofs on structures that contribute to about 350 of 847 deaths. The eruption costs US$700-million in total damages.source
  • 1994Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.source
  • 1995June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisissource
  • 1996In Manchester, UK, an IRA bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.source
  • 2001Declaration to establish the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is signed.source
  • 2003Operation Desert Scorpion: U.S. forces in Iraq facilitate searches for Ba'athist forces, distribution of humanitarian aid, and engineering programs to repair damaged infrastructure.source
  • 2003The 50th Venice Biennale begins.source
  • 2006Hundreds are wounded in fighting between rival factions of the Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance led by Salif Sadio, who supports the continuation of the Casamance conflict, and Magne Dieme, who supports reconciliation with the government of Senegal. The fighting has spread to the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau may intervene.source
  • 2007June 10–15 – Fatah-Hamas conflict: The Battle of Gaza is fought between Fatah and Hamas, and ends with Hamas gaining control of the Gaza Strip.source
  • 2007Bob Barker hosts his final episode of The Price Is Right after 35 years of hosting.source
  • 2011A riot broke out in Vancouver, British Columbia in the aftermath of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.source
  • 2011Healthcare providers begin strike in protest of governmentsource
  • 2014Australia wins the 2014 Hockey World Cup.source
  • 2014The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Miami Heat in the 2014 NBA Finals, 4–1, to win their 5th championship in franchise history.source
  • 20192019–2020 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial extradition bill, but protests continue, this time calling for the total withdrawal of the bill and the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam.source

Births

  • 28Ming of Han, Chinese emperor (died AD 75)source
  • 1287Alice de Warenne, English noblewoman (died 1338)source
  • 1330Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (died 1376)source
  • 1423Gabriele Sforza, Archbishop of Milan (died 1457)source
  • 1479Lisa del Giocondo, Florentine noblewoman believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa (died 1542)source
  • 1515Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke, English countess (died 1552)source
  • 1519Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England (died 1536)source
  • 1534Henri de Montmorency, 3rd Duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France (died 1614)source
  • 1534Henri de Montmorency, 3rd Duke of Montmorency. (d.1614)source
  • 1542Richard Grenville, English politician (died 1591)source
  • 1549Elizabeth Knollys, English noblewoman (died 1605)source
  • 1558Margrave Andrew of Burgau, German nobleman, Cardinal, Bishop of Constance and Brixen (died 1600)source
  • 1618François Blondel, French architect (died 1686)source
  • 1640Bernard Lamy, French Oratorian mathematician and theologian (died 1715)source
  • 1641Bernard de la Monnoye, French lawyer (died 1728)source
  • 1645Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician (died 1712)source
  • 1645Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, politician (died 1712)source
  • 1755Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (died 1809)source
  • 1843Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (died 1907)source
  • 1882Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister, dictator (died 1946)source
  • 1888Ramón López Velarde, poetsource
  • 1914Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader (died 1984)source
  • 1953Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Paramount leader of Chinasource
  • 1955David A. Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy (died 1984)source
  • 1974Saysunee Jana, wheelchair fencersource
  • 1996Aurora, Norwegian singersource
  • 2013North West, daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashiansource

Deaths

  • 251Wang Ling, Chinese general and politiciansource
  • 736Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil ("Eighteen Rabbit"), ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras is defeated in battle by Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat, the ruler of Quiriguá (in Guatemala), and is beheaded. K'ak' ("Smoke Monkey") rules until his death in 749.source
  • 923Robert I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (born 860)source
  • 923Battle of Soissons: King Robert I is killed; the Frankish army, led by Charles the Simple, is defeated and routed near Soissons. Charles is captured and imprisoned at Péronne. The nobles elect Robert's son-in-law Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, as king of the West Frankish Kingdom (until 936).source
  • 948Romanos I, Byzantine emperor (born c. 870)source
  • 952Murong Yanchao, Chinese generalsource
  • 960Eadburh of Winchester, English princess and saintsource
  • 970Adalbert, bishop of Passausource
  • 990Theophanu, Holy Roman Empress and regentsource
  • 991Theophanu dies in Nijmegen, and Adelaide of Italy assumes full regency over her grandson, Otto III.source
  • 992Michael I, Kievan metropolitan bishopsource
  • 1020Dattus (or Datto), Lombard rebel leadersource
  • 1073Emperor Go-Sanjō dies after a 5-year reign and is succeeded by his 19-year-old son Shirakawa as the 72nd emperor of Japan.source
  • 1073Go-Sanjō, emperor of Japan (born 1032)source
  • 1088Gebhard of Salzburg, German archbishopsource
  • 1111Yun Kwan, Korean general (born 1040)source
  • 1123Eustace Grenier, French constable and regentsource
  • 1184Magnus V (Erlingsson), king of Norway (born 1156)source
  • 1189Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (born 1159)source
  • 1246Frederick II, duke of Austria and Styria (born 1211)source
  • 1337Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan and leader of a group of Fraticelli (born 1247)source
  • 1341Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (born 1297)source
  • 1361Johannes Tauler, German mystic theologiansource
  • 1381John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (murdered)source
  • 1381Peasants' Revolt: During further negotiations, Wat Tyler is murdered by the King's entourage. Noble forces subsequently overpower the rebel army. The rebel leaders are eventually captured and executed and Richard II revokes his concessions. The revolt is discussed in John Gower's Vox Clamantis and Froissart's Chronicles.source
  • 1383John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine Emperor (born 1292)source
  • 1389Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1326) — in the Battle of Kosovosource
  • 1389Prince Lazar, Prince of Serbia (born 1329) — in the Battle of Kosovosource
  • 1416John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (born 1340)source
  • 1416John, Duke of Berry (born 1340)source
  • 1467Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (born 1396)source
  • 1467Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (b.1396)source
  • 1508Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny (born c. 1452)source
  • 1508Bernard Stewart, 3rd Lord of Aubigny, French General, commander of the Garde Écossaise, and diplomat (c. 1452)source
  • 1545Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (born 1526)source
  • 1573Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (born 1504)source
  • 1585Jacques de Savoie, Duke of Nemours, Nobleman and military commander, governor of Lyonnais and Prince Étranger (born 1531)source
  • 1614Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, important English aristocrat and courtier (born 1540)source
  • 1691Henry Pollexfen, English politician (born 1632)source
  • 1707Giorgio Baglivi, Armenian doctor and writer (born 1668)source
  • 1724Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (born 1674)source
  • 1735Lê Thuần Tông, Emperor of Đại Việt since 1732, dies at the age of 36 and is succeeded by Lê Ý Tông.source
  • 1849James Knox Polk, 53, 11th president of the United States (born 1795)source
  • 1888Year of the Three Emperors in Germany: Frederick III dies after ruling for 99 days and is succeeded as German Emperor and King of Prussia by his son, Wilhelm II, who will reign until his abdication in 1918.source
  • 1888Frederick III, German Emperor, King of Prussia (born 1831)source
  • 1889Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (born 1850)source
  • 1960The "June 15 Incident": As part of the massive Anpo protests against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in Japan, radical student activists from the Zengakuren student federation attempt to storm the National Diet compound, precipitating a battle with police in which female Tokyo University student Michiko Kanba is killed.source
  • 2020At least 20 Indian soldiers and over 40 Chinese forces are killed or injured in skirmishes in the disputed Galwan Valley, the largest escalation along the Sino-Indian border in five decades.source