June 15

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[edit] Events

• 1215 - King John of England signs the Magna Carta.
• 1752 - Benjamin Franklin conducts his lighting experiment
• 1775 - George Washington becomes commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
• 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
• 1836 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
• 1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
• 1994 - Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.

[edit] Births

• 1843 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
• 1882 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
• 1889 - Harry Elmer Barnes, American historian (d. 1968)
• 1906 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian nationalist (d. 1994)
• 1914 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1984)

[edit] Deaths

• 1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
• 1993 - John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)