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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 2, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,749,945,600 seconds 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 ‘hectahexacontahexagon’ day.
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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 247 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 4,559 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 15 Historical Events
- 1184 –King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
- 1776 –Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- 1808 –Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
- 1836 –Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1904 –A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- 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.
- 1920 –Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- 1945 –The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Who were born on June 15?
- 1624 –Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
- 1888 –Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
- 1943 –Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
- 1945 –Lawrence Wilkerson, American military officer
- 1953 –Rita Lee, American model
- 1963 –Blanca Portillo, Spanish actress
- 1972 –Andy Pettitte, American baseball player
- 1973 –Greg Vaughan, American actor
- 1984 –Mauro Rizzo, Italian footballer
- 1988 –Miku Ishida, Japanese teen idol
Who died on June 15?
- 1341 –Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
- 1381 –Wat Tyler, English rebel (b. 1341)
- 1383 –John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1292)
- 1941 –Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
- 1965 –Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1985 –Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
- 1989 –Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
- 1989 –Victor French, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1993 –John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
- 1996 –Dick Murdoch, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
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