June 15 is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining until the end of the year.
Railways
- 15 June 1914 Germany and the United Kingdom have concluded a deal to eliminate all the hardships on the Baghdad railways.
- 15 June 1922 Azovsky Dekovil line (33,5 km) was built and put into service during the National Struggle. This line is 50 km. It was removed.
- 15 June 1927 The construction agreement of the Kütahya-Balıkesir line and the Ulukışla-Boğazköprü lines were signed with the German Julius Berger Company and its financial supporter, the German Banks Union. The cost of the lines to be completed in 3 years will not exceed 110 million TL.
- 15 June 1931 Izmir Demirspor Club was founded.
- 15 June 1936 Malatya-Yazihan line (33 km) was made by Simeryol Turkish Construction Company
Events
- 763 BC - Assyrians recorded a solar eclipse. This special day was later used as a reference point for the timeline of Mesopotamian history.
- 1215 - King John of England seals the Magna Carta treaty.
- 1381 - The first great peasant uprising in English history ends with the death of its leader, Wat Tyler.
- 1667 – The first recorded blood transfusion was given to King XIV of France. It was carried out by Jean-Baptiste Denys, who was also Louis' personal doctor. Dr. Denys had transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year-old boy, and the boy lived.
- 1752 - Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is an electric current with his kite experiment.
- 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
- 1826 – Sultan II. Mahmud abolished the Janissary Corps. A new military organization was established in its place with the name of “Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye”. This event was known as “Vaka-i Hayriye” (Auspicious Event) in Ottoman history.
- 1836 - Arkansas joins the United States as the 25th state.
- 1844 - Charles Goodyear patented a method for reinforcing rubber called vulcanization.
- 1865 – Darüşşafaka was established for the boarding education of the poor and orphans.
- 1888 – II. Wilhelm became Emperor of Germany.
- 1896 – A tsunami in Japan killed more than 22.000 people, making it the deadliest tsunami in Japanese history.
- 1903 - The first 11-minute Western movie Great Train Robbery entered the show.
- 1911 – The Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation, which would later become IBM, was founded.
- 1920 – Northern Schleswig was given to Denmark by a new border agreement between Germany and Denmark.
- 1920 – Capanogu Uprising started in Yozgat.
- 1920 – The 15th Corps Command was renamed the "Eastern Front Command". Kazım Karabekir Pasha was appointed as the commander of the front.
- 1923 – As a result of the meeting held in Darülfünun Conference Hall under the leadership of Nezihe Muhiddin, it was decided to establish the Women's People's Party. Fırka is the first political party initiative in the new Turkey. But since the party was not allowed to establish it, it turned into an association called Turkish Women's Union.
- 1926 – Izmir Assassination: The assassination to be carried out against Atatürk was reported to Governor Kazım Dirik by the "Cretan" biker Şevki.
- 1927 – Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital, Turkey's first modern mental and psychiatric hospital, was opened.
- 1930 – Turkey's first foreign loan, $10 million, was obtained from the American Assistance Bank.
- Having been the General Secretary of the Republican People's Party since 1936 – 1931, Recep Peker was dismissed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The duty of Secretary General was given to the Chief Deputy İsmet İnönü.
- 1938 – Age at marriage in the Civil Code; 15 for women and 17 for men.
- 1941 – II. World War II: Operation Battle Ax begins.
- 1942 – The house where Atatürk lived in Şişli became a museum.
- 1950 - West Germany decides to join the Council of Europe.
- 1954 – UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football) was founded.
- 1956 – Akis magazine was recalled.
- 1969 - Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.
- 1970 – Workers marched from Gebze to Izmit towards Istanbul. Workers in the places passed during the march also joined the march. These events, called the 15-16 June workers' resistance, ended with the death of 16 people on 5 June and the declaration of martial law in Istanbul and Kocaeli.
- 1973 – Yünsa Yünlü Sanayi Anonim Şirketi was established.
- 1975 – Soyuz 19 took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
- 1977 – The first elections were held in Spain after 41 years.
- 1978 – A city bus flew into the sea in Tarabya, Istanbul; Of the 35 passengers, 4 survived.
- 1978 - King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby. Lisa Halaby changed her name to Nur.
- 1981 – Bünyamin Yılmaz, who kidnapped Mehmet Ali Ağca from prison, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
- 1985 – Dutch painter Rembrandt Danae was attacked by a man who was later judged to be mentally unstable. The attacker, who spilled sulfuric acid on the canvas, also stabbed the painting in two places.
- 1990 – Istanbul's first IVF baby was born.
- 1994 - Israel and the Vatican reach a full diplomatic relations agreement.
- 1994 – Businessman Vehbi Koç was awarded the United Nations Population Activities Award in Switzerland.
- 2002 – An asteroid named “2002 MN” passed within 121.000 km of Earth. This distance is one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
- 2017 – After the Republican People's Party Istanbul Deputy Enis Berberoğlu was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and a warrant of arrest, CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's “Justice March” that would last from Ankara to Istanbul began.
Births
- 1479 – Lisa del Giocondo, member of the Florentine Gherardini family (by Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa (d. 1542) (d. XNUMX)
- 1594 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
- 1769 – Adam Eckfeldt, worker and clerk of the United States Mint (d. 1852)
- 1843 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
- 1881 – Paul Cornu, French engineer and inventor (d. 1944)
- 1914 – Saul Steinberg, American cartoonist (d. 1999)
- 1914 Yuri Andropov, Soviet statesman (d. 1984)
- 1919 – Muzaffer Tema, Turkish cinema artist (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Erland Josephson, Swedish actor (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet and writer (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Fakir Baykurt, Turkish writer (d. 1999)
- 1932 – Hüseyin Baradan, Turkish film actor (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Mario Cuomo, American politician and author (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Saltuk Kaplangı, Turkish theater and film actor (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Claude Brasseur, French actor (d. 2020)
- 1937 – Herbert Feuerstein, German journalist, comedian, and actor (d. 2020)
- 1937 - Anna Hazare, Indian social activist
- 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American country music singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 2002)
- 1940 – Kuzey Vargın, Turkish actress (d. 2017)
- 1940 – Zübeyde Servet, Egyptian actress (d. 2016)
- 1943 – Johnny Hallyday, French rock composer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2017)
- 1943 – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish politician
- 1946 - Brigitte Fossey, French actress
- 1946 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer (d. 2015)
- 1949 – Jim Varney, American comedian, actor, musician, writer, and voice actor (d. 2000)
- 1953 – Xi Jinping, Chinese politician
- 1954 – James Belushi, American actor
- 1958 – Ege Aydan, Turkish director, theater, cinema and TV series actor
- 1959 – Tor Endresen, Norwegian singer and composer
- 1960 – Michèle Laroque, French actress, comedian, producer and screenwriter
- 1961 – Laurent Cantet, French director
- 1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
- 1963 Helen Hunt, American actress
- 1964 – Courteney Cox Arquette, American actress
- 1964 – Michael Laudrup, Danish former international football player and manager
- 1969 – Ice Cube, American singer and actor
- 1969 – Oliver Kahn, German goalkeeper
- 1970 – Žan Tabak, Croatian basketball player and sportsman
- 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, American actor
- 1974 – Tawhidi Tabari, Iranian artist, painter
- 1975 – Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
- 1978 – Ahmet Çağrı, Turkish football player
- 1981 – Alou Diarra, French football player
- 1981 – John Paintsil, Ghanaian former professional football player
- 1983 – Julia Fischer, German violinist and pianist
- 1984 – Buray, Turkish pop music singer
- 1986 – Stoya, Serbian-Scottish American porn star and model
- 1989 - Bayley, American professional wrestler
- 1989 - Bryan Clauson, American racing driver
- 1991 – Zlatan Alomerovic, German football player
- 1992 – Mohammed Salah, Egyptian national football player
- 1994 – Nevena Bozović, Serbian singer
- 1996 – Aurora Aksnes, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1998 – Hachim Mastour, Italian-born Moroccan football player
- 2001 – Abraham Attah, Ghanaian actor
Deaths
- 707 – Mommu, 42nd emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 683)
- 923 – King Robert I of France, elected King of West Franks from 922 to 923 (b. 866)
- 948 – Romanos I, son-in-law VII between 920-944. Byzantine emperor who shared with Constantine and retained real power (b. 870)
- 1073 – Emperor Go-Sanjō, 71st emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 1034)
- 1189 – Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese samurai and commander, military commander of the Minamoto clan during the late Heian and early Kamakura periods (b.
- 1341 – III. Andronikos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1296)
- 1381 – Wat Tyler, English revolutionary leader (b.1341)
- 1383 – VI. John, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)
- 1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, aviator who managed to cross the English Channel for the first time (b. 1754)
- 1849 – James Knox Polk, American politician and 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
- 1876 – Hüseyin Avni Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier and statesman (b. 1819)
- 1885 – Friedrich Karl, prince of Prussia (b. 1828)
- 1888 – III. Friedrich, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, king of Prussia and German emperor for 1888 days in 99 (b. 1831)
- 1889 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (b. 1850)
- 1929 – Charles Francis Brush, American inventor, entrepreneur, and businessman (b. 1849)
- 1934 – Alfred Bruneau, French opera and other music composer and music critic (b. 1857)
- 1938 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Peyami Safa, Turkish writer and journalist (b. 1899)
- 1962 – Alfred Denis Cortot, French-Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
- 1966 – İzzet Melih Devrim, Turkish poet, novelist and playwright (b. 1887)
- 1971 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist, virologist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1904)
- 1981 – Cihat Bilgehan, Turkish politician and lawyer (b. 1923)
- 1989 – Ray McAnally, Irish actor (b. 1926)
- 1991 – William Arthur Lewis, Caribbean-born economist (b. 1915)
- 1992 – Charles David Menville, American animator and television writer (b. 1940)
- 1993 – James Hunt, British F1 driver (b. 1947)
- 1994 – Manos Hacidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
- 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff, initiator of the computer era (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
- 1996 – Hoyt Richard “Dick” Murdoch, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
- 1999 – Tahir Kutsi Makal, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1937)
- 2000 – Mina Urgan, Turkish literary theorist (b. 1915)
- 2001 – Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
- 2003 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Volker Kriegel, German jazz musician (b. 1943)
- 2004 – Ahmet Piriştina, Turkish politician (b. 1952)
- 2005 – Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Peride Celal, Turkish writer (b. 1916)
- 2013 – Heinz Flohe, German former international football player (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Kenneth Geddes Wilson, American theoretical physicist (b. 1936)
- 2014 – Kemal Amin “Casey” Kasem, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2015 – Janna Friske, Russian singer, model and actress (b. 1974)
- 2015 – Kerkor Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1917)
- 2016 – Hakkı Devrim, Turkish journalist and publisher (b. 1929)
- 2017 – Ibrahim Abuleysh, Egyptian businessman (b. 1937)
- 2017 – Aleksey Batalov, Soviet-Russian film director and actor (b. 1928)
- 2017 – Wilma de Faria, Brazilian female politician (b. 1945)
- 2018 – Enoch zu Guttenberg, German conductor (b. 1946)
- 2019 – Wilhelm Holzbauer, Austrian architect and academic (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director and producer of opera, film and television (b. 1923)
- 2020 – Mário Calixto Filho, Brazilian politician, journalist and businessman (b. 1946)
- 2020 – Lilia Dizon, Filipino actress (b. 1928)
- 2020 – José Gentil Rosa, Brazilian politician and businessman (b. 1940)
- 2020 – Giulio Giorello, Italian philosopher, mathematician, and epistemologist (b. 1945)
- 2020 – Renato de Jesus, Brazilian politician (b. 1963)
- 2020 – Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, Bangladeshi politician and mayor (b. 1951)
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