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 167^th 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, 28,640,160 minutes 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.

June 15 Historical Events

• 1580 –
  Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
• 1752 –
  Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
• 1775 –
  American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
• 1836 –
  Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
• 1904 –
  A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
• 1905 –
  Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
• 1937 –
  A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on June 15?

• 1765 –
  Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
• 1809 –
  François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
• 1920 –
  Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
• 1937 –
  Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)
• 1939 –
  Ward Connerly, American political figure
• 1943 –
  Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
• 1943 –
  Muff Winwood, British songwriter and bassist (Spencer Davis Group)
• 1943 –
  Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish politician
• 1966 –
  Tory Burch, American fashion designer
• 1969 –
  Ice Cube, American rapper and actor

Who died on June 15?

• 1246 –
  Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
• 1381 –
  Wat Tyler, English rebel (b. 1341)
• 1383 –
  John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1292)
• 1917 –
  Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
• 1962 –
  Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
• 1965 –
  Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1971 –
  Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
• 1994 –
  Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
• 1996 –
  Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
• 2007 –
  Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)