Today in History - Famous Events for Tomorrow

🏰 On this day in History - June 15, 2026

1968 Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express hits #4

1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark

1948 WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting

1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line

1947 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)

1866 Prussia attacks Austria

1389 Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians

1976 Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team & umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium

1943 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms

1985 Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

1246 Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian

1992 Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford

1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus

1962 Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win

1995 Northants all out 46 v Essex & wins game next day

1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president

1963 Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns

1898 US House of Reps accept annexation of Hawaii

1997 97th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 276 Congressional CC Bethesda Md

1912 26th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62)

1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American

1953 Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits

1957 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6

1888 Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany

1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland

1962 WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx

1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school

1940 Bread & flour rationed in Holland

1590 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther

1975 45th French Mens Tennis: Bj”rn B”rg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64)

1965 Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone"

1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens

1973 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC

1963 "Sukiyaki" hits #1

1969 Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon

1980 80th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ

1954 Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized

1567 Genoa Italy expels Jews

1948 WPIX TV channel 11 in NYC, NY (IND) begins broadcasting

1925 Phila A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15

1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die

1963 SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0

1908 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam

1626 King Charles I disbands English parliament

1953 Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 & Browns 14-game losing streak

1985 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus

1994 NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms

1995 "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth NYC for 55 perfs

1643 Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania

1961 Expansion Wash Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games

1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof

1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo

1864 Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers

1969 69th US Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs GC in Houston

1948 Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win Test Cricket anyway

1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213

1948 1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Phila A's

1924 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal

1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran

1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds

1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention

1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)

1887 Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo

1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific

1094 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren

1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game

1953 NYC Transit Authority forms

1997 Du Mauier Senior Golf Champions

1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral

1897 Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election

1940 France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris

1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo erupts

1983 Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen & Rick Ownbey

1956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner

1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed

1968 15th Curtis Cup: US, 10«-7«

1968 "I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 561 performances

1986 Raymond Floyd wins US Open golf tournament

1963 "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 perfs

1968 "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 52 performances

1985 "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV

1894 Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8

1877 Henry O Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point

1945 Dutch political party ANJV forms

1997 "Little Foxes," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 perfs

1984 "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndication

1978 Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair

1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 perf

1986 86th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY

1977 NY Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry

1864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a military cemetery

1984 Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem

1940 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province

1987 Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy

1931 Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball

1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)

1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated

1664 NJ established

1965 Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced & record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts

1955 Australia score 8-758 v West Indies at Kingston, their best ever

1876 Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000

1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament

1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV

1864 -17] Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia

1963 Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28)

1970 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn

1992 During spelling bee, Quayle misspells potato, as potatoe

1808 Jozef Napoleon becomes king of Spain

1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber

1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army

1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49шN

1918 50th Belmont: Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6

1950 Dutch police seize condoms

1741 Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America

1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory

1949 Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel

1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"

1992 Erie Sailors (Fla Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13

1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot

1752 Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment

1953 WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting

1834 Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews

1978 Belgian govt resigns

1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill

1869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout

1994 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY

1974 "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on UK pop chart

1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League

1987 Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1983 Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion

1947 47th US Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St Louis CC in MO

1989 Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)

1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory

1975 Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic

1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident

1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth

1926 7th French govt of Briand falls

1861 Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry

1923 Belgium's Theunis govt falls because of mine, post & railroad strike

1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat

1997 British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose

1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time

1916 Boys Scouts of America forms

1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days

1887 Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel

1995 Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex v Northants

1992 Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to spell "potato," "potatoe" during spelling bee

1980 "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances

1992 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years

1931 Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adv "Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)

1992 Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342

1977 Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam

1994 Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million

1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch

1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England

1864 Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va

1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity

1901 7th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club MA

1918 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania

1863 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities

1920 De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal

1857 SF Water Works organized

1988 Turkish premier ™zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens

1957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran

1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference

1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races

1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam

1924 J Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI

1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes

1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila

1902 Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game

1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic

1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premieres

1980 Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

1976 Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman

1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania

1968 "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 perfs

1991 Carolyn Tanny & Bob Trischel wed

1957 57th US Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo

1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open

1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship H‚ros

1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile

1998 32nd TNN Music City News Country Awards

1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)

1997 Danielle Ammaccapane wins Edina Realty LPGA Classic

1762 Austria uses 1st paper currency

1898 US marines attack Spanish off Guant namo Cuba

1887 NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1

1965 South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products

1928 Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time

1567 Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army

1904 Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)

1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)

1982 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education

1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state

1964 Last French troops leave Algeria

1938 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter

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