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June 15: Day of Arafah (Islam, 2024); King's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom (2024)

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

1215 – King John of England and a group of rebel barons agreed on the text of Magna Carta, an influential charter of rights.
1800 – War of the Second Coalition: The signing of the Convention of Alessandria brought temporary peace between France and Austria.
1878 – Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops (animation pictured), which became the basis of motion pictures.
1944 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began its first air raid on the Japanese archipelago, although little damage was caused.
1996 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.

Lisa del Giocondo (b. 1479)
Adam Eckfeldt (b. 1769)
James K. Polk (d. 1849)
Oliver Kahn (b. 1969)

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1094 - Valencia falls to El Cid.
1616 - Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children in Canada, at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: American Army of the Continental Congress retreats south, setting fire to Montreal, Quebec.
1814 - War of 1812: 500 Americans cross Lake Erie to burn and loot Port Dover and Long Point, Ontario.
1869 - John Wesley Hyatt patents celluloid.
1965 - Bernard Hopkins (born January 15, )

Could not be confirmed at this date outside of 'this day in history'-type websites and Wikipedia mirrors. --mav 02:26, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Could you then please verify your resources to back up this date of birth.Thank you.

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1956 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time.

Not particularly significant unless they formed the Beatles on that day. I couldn't confirm it either. --mav 02:26, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Any reason that Magna Carta was not sufficiently significant to warrant a call-out on the main page? After all, it was only the first fundamental document of English (and American) constitutional law. Capnned (talk) 01:03, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested

I know you serious editors have your ways, so I'm leaving this suggestion. I feel it has international implications as a surprisingly American corollary to current events such as the Arab Spring.

1932 Prompted by the Bonus Army, U.S. House of Representitives passed Wright Patman's Bonus Bill, which would have moved forward the date for World War I veterans to receive their cash bonus.

Teststudent (talk) 23:49, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Magna Carta

What is the policy for celebrations of events that occur on their old-style dates? The Magna Carta's signing was June 15th of the Old Style, but it is still celebrated on June 15th to this day. The project page says new-style dates should be used. 73.49.233.247 (talk) 21:02, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Old Style (Julian) / New Style (Gregorian) Calendar Confusion - First Battle of Kosova

I cannot understand this eternal confusion in Wikipedia. Some dates you give in the Julian calendar "because it was valid THEN". True enough, it was. But we live in the present times, and Wikipedia is written in the present times too. So it would be appropriate to use the calendar which is valid and generaly accepted worldwide IN THE PRESENT TIMES - and that is the Gregorian calendar. The conversion is easy - just add 13 days to the Julian date and you have the gregorian date. So, the First Battle of Kosova, as it should be properly named, because there was yet another in 1448, took place on June 28 1389.

Not even the Julian calendar was once valid. How do you give the dates from those times then? In some parts of the world, neither Julian nor Gregorian calendar was valid, but, for example the Hijri calendar - yet you give Hijri dates rarely. So really, I do not understand this confusion. Stick to Gregorian calendar, it is valid and accepted in the present times. Conversion is maximally easy. 2A02:AB04:2B7:BB00:C4AA:D0E5:5ADD:AD61 (talk) 09:28, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]