About June 15
June 15, 2025 is the 166th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 247 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 15
- 1184 –King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
- 1215 –King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
- 1389 –Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1752 –Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
- 1844 –Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1846 –The 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.
- 1859 –Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the “Northwestern Boundary Dispute” between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1864 –Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acre around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
- 1867 –Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
- 1905 –Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- 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 –A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- 1934 –The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 1945 –The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 1954 –UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1955 –The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual “Operation Alert” (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA’s preparations for a nuclear attack.
- 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.
- 1996 –The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.
- 2002 –Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75000 mi, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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