SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013

Today is Saturday, June 15, the 166th day of 2013. 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

1381 ― Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants’ Revolt, beheaded in London

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.

1896 ― Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan; 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed

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

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