June 15<\/p>\n
763 BC \u2013 Assyrian astrologers record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.<\/p>\n
1215 \u2013 To make peace between the king and a group of rebel barons, King John of England is forced to affix his seal to Magna Carta,<\/em> a declaration of certain rights protected from the power of the English throne.<\/p>\n 1389 \u2013The invading army of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad H\u00fcdavendig\u00e2r, barely defeats an army of Serbs and Bosnians led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovi\u0107 on the east central plain of Kosovo. Both leaders are killed as both armies are nearly wiped out.<\/p>\n 1502 \u2013 Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.<\/p>\n 1520 \u2013 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.<\/em><\/p>\n 1607 \u2013 Virginia colonists finish building James’s Fort – later Jamestown – on the James river southwest of modern Williamsburg, to defend against Spanish and Indian attacks.<\/p>\n 1648 \u2013 Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1804 \u2013 New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying it.<\/p>\n 1836 \u2013 Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.<\/p>\n 1844 \u2013 Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013 The Oregon Treaty of 1846<\/em> extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n 1859 \u2013 Ambiguous language in the Oregon Treaty<\/em> due to incomplete mapping of the region, leads to the “Northwestern Boundary Dispute” between American and British\/Canadian settlers.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres\u00a0 of the Arlington estate 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.<\/p>\n 1877 \u2013 Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.<\/p>\n 1878 \u2013 Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.<\/p>\n 1904 \u2013 A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum<\/em> causes it to sink in New York City’s East River killing 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America with a federal charter.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 During World War II, the U.S. invades the island of Saipan, capital of Japan’s South Seas Mandate.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 Charles Manson goes on trial for the Tate\u2013LaBianca murders.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0United States v. \u00c1lvarez-Macha\u00edn, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules in 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.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 Microsoft retires Internet Explorer after 26 years and introduces a new browser; Microsoft Edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 15 763 BC \u2013 Assyrian astrologers record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215 \u2013 To make peace between the king and a group of rebel barons, King John of England is forced to affix his seal to Magna Carta, a declaration of certain rights protected … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68467"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93578,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68467\/revisions\/93578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}