It happened on this day, June 15
events:
1389 – The Battle of Kosovo takes place, in which Ottoman Sultan Murad I defeats the Serbian army, giving the Ottomans control of the Balkans.
1775 – The American Continental Congress decides to name General George Washington commander in chief of the new American army.
1805 – The first British campaign against the Qawasim in the Persian Gulf begins.
1831 – Plague epidemic spreads to Kuwait, killing thousands of Kuwaitis.
1904 – The Battle of Al-Bukayriyah breaks out between Abdulaziz Al Saud, Emir of Najd, and the Emir of Hail, Abdulaziz Al-Mutab Al-Rashid, which ends with the victory of Ibn Saud.
1918 – End of the civil war in Finland.
1923 – President of the Syrian Federation, Sobhi Barakat, issues a decree establishing the Syrian University in Damascus, consisting of the Institute of Law, the School of Medicine, the Arab Scientific Academy and the House of Antiquities Arabs.
1940 – Nylon stockings are first introduced to American markets.
1946 – The Blue Angels perform their first air show in Jacksonville, Florida.
1957 – The United Kingdom detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
1991 – A powerful volcanic eruption at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines kills about 800 people, the second most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1996 – A terrorist explosion in the city of Manchester injures more than two hundred civilians and destroys much of the city center.
2013 – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi announces the severance of relations with Syria, the closure of his embassy in Egypt and the withdrawal of the Egyptian charge d'affaires from Damascus. He also called for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Syria and hinted at the intervention of the Egyptian army in Syria.
2014 – The Syrian army regains control of the town of Kassab and the nearby border crossing, approximately 3 months after opposition fighters took control.
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Births:
1479 – Lisa del Giocondo, owner of the Mona Lisa.
1882 – Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania.
1902 – Erik Erikson, American evolutionary psychologist.
1910 – Suleiman Franjieh, President of the Lebanese Republic.
1915 – Thomas Weller, American virologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1954.
1916 – Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978.
1917 – John Finn, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002.
1921 – Gavriil Ilizarov, Russian orthopedic surgeon.
1924 – Ezer Weizman, president of Israel.
1933 – Sergio Indrigo, Italian singer.
** Mohammad Ali Rajai, second president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1934 – Ahmed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian author and screenwriter.
1946 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer.
1950 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian billionaire.
1954 – James Belushi, American actor.
1961 – Hala Sedqy, Egyptian actress.
1963 – Helen Hunt, American actress.
1964 – Courteney Cox, American actress.
** Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer and coach.
1965 – Karim Masimov, Kazakh politician and prime minister.
1967 – Yuji Aeda, Japanese voice actor.
1969 – Ice Cube, American actor. Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper.
** Cédric Pioline, French tennis player.
1972 – Marcus Hahnemann, American football player.
1973 – Khaled Al-Muraikhi, Saudi poet.
** Muhammad Al-Hasyan, Kuwaiti singer.
1981 – John Bentsil, Ghanaian footballer.
1983 – Julia Fischer, German violinist.
1984 – Yasmine Gamal, Egyptian actress.
1989 – Basil Al-Hajj, Jordanian YouTuber and food blogger.
1992 – Mohamed Salah, Egyptian footballer.
2002 – Dhari Al-Rashdan, Kuwaiti theater and television actor
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Death:
1381 – Wat Tyler, English rebel.
1389 – Sultan Murad I, Ottoman sultan.
1849 – James Polk, 11th President of the United States.
1888 – Frederick III, Kaiser of Germany.
1889 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian writer and poet.
1902 – Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Arab nationalist thinker and Syrian journalist.
1934 – Alfred Bruneau, French musician.
1934 – Muhammad Lotfy Gomaa, Egyptian writer and political activist.
1971 – Wendell Stanley, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946.
1991 – Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, vice-ruler of Kuwait from 1950 to 1961.
** Arthur Lewis, British economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979.
1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer.
2003 – Elham Hussein, Egyptian actress.
2008 – Behnam Al-Sayegh, Iraqi physician, surgeon and academic.
2009 – Al-Nabawi Ismail, Egyptian Interior Minister.
2014 – Fathia Al-Assal, Egyptian writer.
2015 – Zito, Brazilian footballer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Iraqi Press Day in Iraq.
⬅️ Flag Day in Denmark.
