Today is Friday, June 15, the 167th day of 2012. There are 199 days left in the year.

763 B.C. ― Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet

1215 ― King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England

1590 ― Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther

1785 ― Two French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation accident

1869 ― Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, N.Y.

1924 ― Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens

1956 ― John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for first time as Lennon's rock group ``The Quarrymen” perform at a church dinner

1977 ― Spain's first free elections since 1936

1982 ― Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat

1986 ― Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity