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