What are the important events that happened on June 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 15 is the 167th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 2, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 477,336 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontaheptagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac 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 228 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,194 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 15 Historical Events
- 763 BC –Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 1184 –King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
- 1667 –The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
- 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.
- 1945 –The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 1955 –The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual “Operation Alert” (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA’s preparations for a nuclear attack.
- 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.
- 2002 –Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75000 mi, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Who were born on June 15?
- 1917 –Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (d. 2005)
- 1943 –Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish politician
- 1945 –Lawrence Wilkerson, American military officer
- 1949 –Simon Callow, British actor
- 1953 –Rita Lee, American model
- 1962 –Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
- 1970 –Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano
- 1973 –Neil Patrick Harris, American actor
- 1981 –John Paintsil, Ghanaian footballer
- 1984 –Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
Who died on June 15?
- 1381 –John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. c. 1346)
- 1381 –Wat Tyler, English rebel (b. 1341)
- 1383 –John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1292)
- 1389 –Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
- 1521 –Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
- 1768 –James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
- 1888 –Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1976 –Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
- 1985 –Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
- 1991 –Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
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