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, 486,096 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 ‘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
- 763 BC –Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 923 –Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
- 1520 –Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 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.
- 1920 –A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- 1920 –Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- 1940 –World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany’s takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
- 1991 –In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
- 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?
- 1623 –Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
- 1801 –Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (d. 1883)
- 1882 –Ion Antonescu, Romanian politician (d. 1946)
- 1945 –Lawrence Wilkerson, American military officer
- 1949 –Jim Varney, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1971 –Bif Naked, Canadian singer, poetess and actress
- 1971 –Edwin Brienen, Dutch director
- 1982 –Katie Chapman, English footballer
- 1984 –Luke Hodge, Australian footballer
- 1984 –Mauro Rizzo, Italian footballer
Who died on June 15?
- 1073 –Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
- 1389 –Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
- 1467 –Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
- 1768 –James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
- 1844 –Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (b. 1777)
- 1849 –James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
- 1941 –Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
- 1968 –Sam Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 2001 –Maria Foka, Greek actress (b. 1917)
- 2011 –Bill Haast, American Herpetologist (b. 1910)
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