Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 15
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This is a list of selected June 15 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.June 15: Pentecost in Eastern Christianity (2008); Father's Day in several countries (2008)
- 1215 – King John of England (pictured) put his seal to Magna Carta.
- 1667 – Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully-documented human blood transfusion, giving the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.
- 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring over 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.
