TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 15
763 BC Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history
1215 King John signs the Magna Carta.
1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants’ Revolt, beheaded in London
1667 Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully-documented human blood transfusion. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.
1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, the day after Congress establishes the force
1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president
1836 Arkansas is admitted into the Union as the 25th state.
1844 Charles Goodyear patents vulcanization
1846 Great Britain and the United States agree on a joint occupation of Oregon Territory.
1862 General J.E.B. Stuart completes his “ride around McClellan.”
1864 An order to establish a military burial ground was signed by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The location later became known as Arlington National Cemetery.
1877 Henry O. Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
1916 President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America
1920 Three African Americans are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by a white mob of 5,000.
1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1932 Gaston Means is sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1944 U.S. Marines begin the invasion of Saipan in the Pacific.
1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
1977 The first general election in Spain since 1936 results in victory for the UCD (Union of Democratic Centre).
1978 King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.
1981 The U.S. agreed to provide Pakistan with $3 billion in military and economic aid from October 1982 to October 1987.
1983 Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion
1991 Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
1992 U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell “potato” with an “e” on the end during a spelling bee. He had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student’s teacher.
1992 It was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court that the government could kidnap criminal suspects from foreign countries for prosecution.
1994 Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.
1996 Great Britain Terrorist Bomb Manchester. The IRA detonates a massive bomb outside the Arndale shopping centre at lunch time injuring 200 mostly by flying glass, and seven are said to be in a serious condition.
1999 Kosovo Mass Murders. As Yugoslav forces pull out of Kosovo as part of the agreed NATO peace plan, more evidence emerges of the mass killings committed by Serb Forces on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
2012 US To End Child Immigrant Deportation. President Obama announced that the US would immediately end the deportation of illegal immigrants who came to the country as children.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
