Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 15
This is a list of selected June 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Dannebrog falling from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse -
Queen Noor of Jordan
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1219 – Northern Crusades: According to a popular Danish legend, the Dannebrog (Flag of Denmark), today one of the oldest state flags in the world still in use, fell from the sky and gave the Danish forces renewed hope to defeat the Estonians at the Battle of Lyndanisse. | unreferenced section |
| 1667 – French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully documented human blood transfusion, giving the blood of a sheep to a 15-year-old boy. | refimprove section |
| 1844 – American inventor Charles Goodyear received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. | unreferenced section |
| 1846 – To settle the Oregon boundary dispute, the United Kingdom and the United States signed the Oregon Treaty, extending the United States–British North America border west along the 49th parallel north that was first established by the Treaty of 1818. | refimprove |
| 1904 – The steamship General Slocum caught fire in New York's East River and burned uncontrollably, killing over 1,000 people. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 763 BC – The Eclipse of Bur-Sagale was observed in Assyria, the earliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has been successfully identified.
- 1520 – Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine to censure propositions from Martin Luther's 95 theses and threaten him with excommunication.
- 1815 – The Duchess of Richmond held a ball in Brussels, Belgium, that was described as "the most famous ball in history".
- 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.
- 1896 – A 7.2 Ms earthquake and a subsequent tsunami struck Japan, destroying about 9,000 homes and causing at least 22,000 deaths.
- 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.
- 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Tommy Douglas won enough seats in the Legislative Assembly to form the first socialist government in North America.
- 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan (pictured).
- 1991 – The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate into the atmosphere, enough to lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
- 2001 – Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Notes
- Novarupta appears on June 6, so Mt. Pinatubo should not appear in the same year
- Katharina von Bora appears on June 13, so Exsurge Domine should not appear in the same year (both are related to Martin Luther)
- The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation is also mentioned on June 17.
- 1215 – King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta.
- 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); the study became the basis of motion pictures.
- 1919 – After nearly 16 hours, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight.
- 1954 – The Union of European Football Associations, the administrative and controlling body for European football, was founded in Basel, Switzerland.
- 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.