This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
06/15/1221 Frederik II, [Strijdbare], duke of Austria 
06/15/1330 Edward, the black prince, prince of Wales (1343-1376) 
06/15/1553 Ernst, archduke of Austria 
06/15/1623 Cornelis de Witt, statesman 
06/15/1636 Johann David Mayer, composer 
06/15/1728 Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer 
06/15/1749 George Joseph Vogler, composer 
06/15/1763 Franz Danzi, composer 
06/15/1767 Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of Pres Andrew (1828-37) (died 1828) 
06/15/1815 Phiz [Habl“t Knight Browne], English illustrator (Pickwick Papers) 
06/15/1821 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer 
06/15/1833 Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 190

06/15/1843 Edvard Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer (Bewitched One) 
06/15/1864 Joseph Guy Ropartz, composer 
06/15/1865 L H Perquin, religious radio speaker 
06/15/1865 Paul Gilson, composer 
06/15/1878 Eduard R Verkade, actor/director 
06/15/1884 Harry Langdon, US, comic/director (Strong Man) 
06/15/1886 Charles Wood, composer 
06/15/1888 Maria Dermo–t, Java, Dutch novelist (10,000 Things) 
06/15/1888 Ram¢n L¢pez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota) 
06/15/1894 Robert Russell Bennett, Kansas City, composer/arranger (Oklahoma!) 
06/15/1898 Willem Scheps, journalist 
06/15/1900 Otto Clarence Luening, Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon

06/15/1900 Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues) 
06/15/1901 John Wesley Work, composer 
06/15/1902 Erik H Erickson, psychologist (Existentionalist) 
06/15/1902 Max Rudolf, Frankfurt Germany, conductor (G”teberg Symphony Orch) 
06/15/1906 Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, mayor of Zoelen 
06/15/1910 Berend Giltay, composer 
06/15/1910 David Rose, London England, orch leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper)

06/15/1914 Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, cartoonist/illustrator 
06/15/1914 Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator (NYer) 
06/15/1914 Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary 
06/15/1918 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader 
06/15/1918 N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad 
06/15/1921 Erroll Garner, US, jazz pianist (Misty) 
06/15/1922 John Veale, composer 
06/15/1922 Morris K [Mo] Udall, (Rep-D-AZ, 1961-  ) 
06/15/1923 Erland Josephson, Swedish actor/dramatist (Utflykt) 
06/15/1925 Gene Baker, baseball player 
06/15/1925 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes) 
06/15/1926 Jan Carlstedt, composer 
06/15/1929 Gideon N N Nxumalo, composer 
06/15/1932 Mario Cuomo, NYC, (Gov-D-NY) 
06/15/1935 Belinda Lee, England, actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus) 
06/15/1936 Alexandru Hrisanide, composer 
06/15/1937 Rolf Riehm, composer 
06/15/1937 Waylon Jennings, singer of innumerable country songs (Ramblin' Man) 
06/15/1938 Billy Williams, baseball player 
06/15/1938 Jean-Claude Eloy, composer 
06/15/1940 Willem Frederik Bon, composer 
06/15/1941 Harry Nilsson, [Johnny Niles], laid-back singer/songwriter (Popeye) 
06/15/1942 Bruce DalCanton, baseball player 
06/15/1942 Tony Coelho, (Rep-D-CA, 1979-  ) 
06/15/1942 Xaveria Hollander, [DeVries], Surabaya Indonesia, auth (Happy Hooker

06/15/1943 Aron Kincaid, LA Calif, actor (Warren-Bachelor Father, Ski Party) 
06/15/1944 Inna Ryskai, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-2 gold/2 silver-1964-7

06/15/1945 Nicola Pagett, actress (Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade) 
06/15/1945 Rod Argent, England, keyboardist (Zombies-She's Not There) 
06/15/1946 Jim Varney, Lexington KY, 'Hey Vern', actor (Ernest Goes to Jail) 
06/15/1946 Judy Pace, LA Calif, actress (Young Lawyers) 
06/15/1946 Ken Henderson, baseball player 
06/15/1947 Lee Purcell, NC, actor (Big Wednesday, Mr Majestyk) 
06/15/1947 Paul Patterson, composer 
06/15/1948 Champ Summers, baseball player 
06/15/1949 Dusty Baker, baseball player (LA Dodgers) 
06/15/1950 Heidi Schller, Germany, 1st woman to take olympic oath (1972) 
06/15/1950 Noddy Holder, rock vocalist/guitarist (Slade-Cum On Feel The Noize) 
06/15/1951 Tom Forzani, CFL wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders) 
06/15/1953 Rita Lee, Federic Wisc, playmate (November, 1977) 
06/15/1954 Jim Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian (Sat Night Live, Trading Places) 
06/15/1954 Terri Gibbs, Augusta Ga, blind singer (Somebody's Knockin') 
06/15/1955 Julie Hagerty, actress (Airplane, Princesses) 
06/15/1955 Tree Rollins, Winter Haven Fla, NBA center (Cleve Cavaliers) 
06/15/1956 Lance Parrish, baseball player 
06/15/1956 Polly Draper, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Ellyn-30 Something, Hooters)

06/15/1957 Brett Butler, baseball player 
06/15/1957 Clio Goldsmith, Paris France, actress (Gift, Heat of Desire) 
06/15/1958 Wade Boggs, Nebraska, Red Sox/Yank 3rd baseman (AL bat champ 1985-88

06/15/1959 Eileen Davidson, actress (Young & Restless, House on Sorority Row) 
06/15/1963 Helen Hunt, LA Calif, actress (Jill-Amy Prentiss, Lisa-It Takes Two)

06/15/1963 Scott Rockenfield, drummer (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence) 
06/15/1964 Courtney Cox, Birmingham Ala, actress (Family Ties, Cocoon II) 
06/15/1965 Carrie Mitchum, LA Calif, actress (Donna-Bold & Beautiful) 
06/15/1970 Janie Eickhoff, Long Beach Calif, US cyclist (Olympic-92) 
06/15/1973 Neil Patrick Harris, Albuquerque NM, actor (Doogie Howser) 
06/15/1978 RoRo, [Romell Chapman], Atlanta Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/15/ 923 Robert I, King of France, dies in battle 
06/15/ 948 Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44), dies 
06/15/ 991 Theophano, German Emperor/wife of Emperor Otto II, dies 
06/15/1246 Frederik II 'the Strijdbare', duke of Austria, dies in battle at 25 
06/15/1337 Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies 
06/15/1341 Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies 
06/15/1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 
06/15/1389 Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle 
06/15/1389 Murad I, Osmaans sultan, dies in battle 
06/15/1397 Earl of Eu, French knight (in Turkish captivity), dies 
06/15/1467 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 76 
06/15/1557 Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder, dies 
06/15/1580 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem, dies at 70 
06/15/1666 Pieter de Bitter, admiral (Colombo, Goa) 
06/15/1677 Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer, dies at 67 
06/15/1702 Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies 
06/15/1703 Gillis Schey, admiral (battle at Lowestoft), dies at 58 
06/15/1708 Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith, buried at 62 
06/15/1760 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69 
06/15/1772 Louis C Daquin, [d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La rose), dies

06/15/1814 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84 
06/15/1828 Brizio Petrucci, composer, dies at 91 
06/15/1831 Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78 
06/15/1836 Th‚odore Dotrenge, South Netherland orangist, dies at about 74 
06/15/1839 Hans Skramstad, composer, dies at 41 
06/15/1844 Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66 
06/15/1849 James Knox Polk, 11th Pres (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tenn at 5

06/15/1858 Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63 
06/15/1865 Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide 
06/15/1865 Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61 
06/15/1869 Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60 
06/15/1875 Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72 
06/15/1888 Frederik III NK van Hohenzollern, German Emperor/king of Prussia, di

06/15/1893 Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer/conductor (B nk B n), dies at 82 
06/15/1895 Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72 
06/15/1905 Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies 
06/15/1907 William Le Baron Jenney, US architect, dies 
06/15/1920 Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55 
06/15/1923 Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies 
06/15/1934 Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77 
06/15/1938 Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58 
06/15/1952 Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70 
06/15/1958 Fran‡ois de Vries, economist, dies at 74 
06/15/1962 Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84 
06/15/1967 Edward Eagan, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32), dies at 

06/15/1968 Samuel Earl 'Wahoo Sam' Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 
06/15/1968 West Montgomery, jazz guitarist dies of a heart attack at 48 
06/15/1969 Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies 
06/15/1978 Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83 
06/15/1982 Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56 
06/15/1982 Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90 
06/15/1984 Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82 
06/15/1984 Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies at 78 of heart failur

06/15/1984 Robert Meredith Willson, composer, dies at 82 
06/15/1987 Walter W Heller, US economist (Old Myths & New Realities), dies at 7

06/15/1989 Ray McAlly, actor, dies in Dublin at 63 
06/15/1989 Victor French, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 54 of cancer 
06/15/1992 Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73 
06/15/1992 Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies 
06/15/1993 John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76 
06/15/1993 Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered 
06/15/1993 Vera, fashion designer (scarves), dies at 87 
06/15/1994 David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue) 
06/15/1994 Kristen Pfaff, US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 2

06/15/1994 Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/15/ 763 -BC- Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet 
06/15/1094 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupiess Valencia on the Moren 
06/15/1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England 
06/15/1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark 
06/15/1246 Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian 
06/15/1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 
06/15/1389 Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians 
06/15/1567 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 
06/15/1590 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther 
06/15/1643 Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania 
06/15/1664 NJ established 
06/15/1741 Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America 
06/15/1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army 
06/15/1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx 
06/15/1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident 
06/15/1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship H‚ros 
06/15/1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president 
06/15/1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state 
06/15/1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber 
06/15/1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49øN 
06/15/1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory 
06/15/1857 SF Water Works organized 
06/15/1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin) 
06/15/1861 Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry 
06/15/1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his 'ride around McClellan' 
06/15/1864 -17]6 Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia 
06/15/1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line 
06/15/1864 Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers 
06/15/1864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a miltary cemetery 
06/15/1866 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe 
06/15/1866 Prussia attacks Austria 
06/15/1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY 
06/15/1869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout 
06/15/1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school 
06/15/1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential cconventi

06/15/1876 Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000 
06/15/1877 Henry O Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point 
06/15/1887 NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1 
06/15/1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adv 'Stockbroker's Clerk' (BG) 
06/15/1894 Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8 
06/15/1897 Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election 
06/15/1898 US House of Reps accept annexation of Hawaii 
06/15/1898 US marines attack Spanish off Guant namo Cuba 
06/15/1901 Willie Anderson wins US Open golf tournament 
06/15/1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time 
06/15/1902 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game 
06/15/1904 Side-wheeler 'General Slocum' burns in NY's East River (1,031 die) 
06/15/1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference 
06/15/1908 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam 
06/15/1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo 
06/15/1918 1' of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania 
06/15/1918 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins) 
06/15/1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland 
06/15/1923 Belgium's Theunis term ends because of mine, post & railroad strike 
06/15/1924 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal 
06/15/1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile 
06/15/1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens 
06/15/1925 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda 
06/15/1926 7th French cabinet-Briand falls 
06/15/1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch

06/15/1931 Poland & USSR sign friendship treaty 
06/15/1933 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya & #1279 Uganda 
06/15/1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna 
06/15/1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated 
06/15/1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1322 Coppernicus 
06/15/1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1676 Kariba 
06/15/1940 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province 
06/15/1940 Bread & flour rationed in Holland 
06/15/1940 French Fort Verdun & Paris captured by Germans 
06/15/1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania 
06/15/1943 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms 
06/15/1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific 
06/15/1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam 
06/15/1945 Dutch political party ANJV forms 
06/15/1947 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1) 
06/15/1947 Lew Worsham wins US Open golf tournament 
06/15/1948 WPIX TV channel 11 in NY, NY (IND) begins broadcasting 
06/15/1948 WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting 
06/15/1950 Dutch police seize condoms 
06/15/1950 Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir & 1779 Para

06/15/1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila 
06/15/1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory 
06/15/1953 WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting 
06/15/1954 Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized 
06/15/1957 42.01 cm (16.54') of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record) 
06/15/1957 Dick Mayer wins US Open golf tournament 
06/15/1957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran 
06/15/1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races 
06/15/1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman 
06/15/1962 Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 wi

06/15/1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes 
06/15/1962 WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste. Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting

06/15/1963 Israeli premier David Am Gurion resigns 
06/15/1963 SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0 
06/15/1964 Last French troops leave Algeria 
06/15/1965 South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products 
06/15/1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill 
06/15/1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral 
06/15/1969 'Hee Haw' with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV 
06/15/1969 Orville Moody wins US Open golf tournament 
06/15/1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League

06/15/1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 di

06/15/1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof 
06/15/1973 'American Graffiti' opens in NYC 
06/15/1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years) 
06/15/1977 Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam 
06/15/1978 Belgian govt resigns 
06/15/1978 Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair 
06/15/1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American 
06/15/1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days 
06/15/1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds 
06/15/1980 Jack Nicklaus wins for the 4th time US Open golf tournament 
06/15/1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game 
06/15/1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat 
06/15/1983 Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion 
06/15/1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran 
06/15/1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus 
06/15/1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity 
06/15/1986 Raymond Floyd wins US Open golf tournament 
06/15/1987 Bettino Craxi's Socialistic Party wins election in Italy 
06/15/1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213 
06/15/1988 Turkish premier ™zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens 
06/15/1989 Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees) 
06/15/1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth 
06/15/1990 'Dick Tracy' with Warren Beatty & Madonna premieres 
06/15/1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts 
06/15/1992 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years 
06/15/1992 Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford 
06/15/1992 Erie Sailors (Fla Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 1

06/15/1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC) 
06/15/1994 NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms 
  
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