Today in History
15 June
218 births · 87 deaths · 31 events recorded
Notable Births
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Madison Kocian
b. 1997
American artistic gymnast (born 1997)
Aurora (singer)
b. 1996
Norwegian singer-songwriter (born 1996)
Hoshi (South Korean singer)
b. 1996
South Korean singer (born 1996)
Iñaki Williams
b. 1994
Footballer (born 1994)
Cooper Kupp
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Irfan Hadžić
b. 1993
Bosnian footballer
Billy Williams
b. 1938
American baseball player (born 1938)
Josiah Henson
b. 1789
American abolitionist and minister
Notable Deaths
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Matija Sarkic
d. 2024
English-born Montenegrin footballer (1997–2024)
Glenda Jackson
d. 2023
English actress and politician (1936–2023)
Franco Zeffirelli
d. 2019
Italian filmmaker (1923–2019)
Jacques Bergerac
d. 2014
French actor, businessman and executive (1927–2014)
Heinz Flohe
d. 2013
German footballer (1948-2013)
José Froilán González
d. 2013
Argentine racing driver (1922–2013)
Ella Fitzgerald
d. 1996
American jazz singer (1917–1996)
Mihai Eminescu
d. 1889
Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (1850–1889)
On This Day in History
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A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
June 2013 Quetta attacks
1996
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
The Troubles
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 United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.
Supreme Court of the United States
1991
In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
Mount Pinatubo
1977
After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections take place in Spain.
Francisco Franco
1972
Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) and kills 81 people.
Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z
1944
World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
Battle of Saipan
1944
In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
1944 Saskatchewan general election