June 15 Historical Events

The following events took place on June 15. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 62 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1878
  Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
• 1888
  Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
• 1896
  The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
• 1904
  A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
• 1905
  Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
• 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.
• 1916
  U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
• 1919
  John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
• 1920
  Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
• 1920
  A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
• 1934
  The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
• 1936
  First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
• 1937
  A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
• 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
  World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
• 1944
  In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
• 1945
  The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 1954
  UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
• 1970
  Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
• 1972
  Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
• 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.
• 1992
  The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
• 1994
  Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
• 1996
  The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
• 2001
  Leaders of the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• 2012
  Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.
• 2012
  Hurricane Carlotta makes landfall on the coast of Mexico, causing over $12.4 million in damages.